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Block_Me_Amadeus t1_ja2471e wrote

Reply to comment by IcemanofOz in So I bought a karasawa nail file in Japan while traveling 7 years ago, and damn do I love it, it just feels good to use, unlike those cheap sand paper ones that feel like a weird torture by thejunketjourneyer

"Buy once, cry once." How much would you spend on another X years of cheap ones?

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foodmakes62kgtoohard t1_ja2ajtn wrote

I have a torture one in those kits you find at tjmaxx. Going on 15 years now. I've replaced the tweezers and clips with tweezerman a few ago for reference.

Get this cuz you want higher quality. But you don't have to pretend like the shit ones disintegrate or wear down.

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F-21 t1_ja6qe2r wrote

15-20$ gets you a decent Pferd file for steel which are among the best on the market. Yeah 40$ for a nail file is overpriced by about 35$ because it does not require any real hardening for that, it's just finely grooved sheet metal that can fly out of a production machine and hardly requires any workers to operate it...

Sure enough you can find a bunch on aliexpress for 2-3$.

Also, the same Japanese one is 14.5$ on Japanese Amazon, it's just terribly overpriced when exported.

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IcemanofOz t1_ja2kgjm wrote

As long as I don't lose the one I have, probably nothing... at worst I replace it once and it'll be around 10 dollars.

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