Well my husband I and bought a Furminator at our local feed store last week. We bought the small one and it was something like $27. They let us try an open one out and Wrigley happened to be with us--we loved it!
Upon getting it home, but before opening it--my husband says "Don't open that, I think I can make it myself" to which I probably rolled my eyes...but it's true you can make your own. My husband clips his own hair and has for years so he has lots of left over clippers and parts. The blade on the furminator? Well it is just a clipper blade! Kindof like this (image from ebay)
He then sanded down a piece of spare wood into a handle and where the screws are on the blade---took those out and nailed it into the handle so it was in this type of formation:
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You then use it just as you would a Furminator--it works the same way--it took him about an hour to make from start to finish and was FREE!
He thinks that whoever created it must have just used a blade from a clipper once forwhatever reason (grooming, it was laying there ect) and it worked so well they made it into this huge business.
Let me know if you have any questions--if I remember I will try to get pictures of our hillbilly furminator.
Upon getting it home, but before opening it--my husband says "Don't open that, I think I can make it myself" to which I probably rolled my eyes...but it's true you can make your own. My husband clips his own hair and has for years so he has lots of left over clippers and parts. The blade on the furminator? Well it is just a clipper blade! Kindof like this (image from ebay)
He then sanded down a piece of spare wood into a handle and where the screws are on the blade---took those out and nailed it into the handle so it was in this type of formation:
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You then use it just as you would a Furminator--it works the same way--it took him about an hour to make from start to finish and was FREE!
He thinks that whoever created it must have just used a blade from a clipper once forwhatever reason (grooming, it was laying there ect) and it worked so well they made it into this huge business.
Let me know if you have any questions--if I remember I will try to get pictures of our hillbilly furminator.
