My wife runs a dog grooming shop in Oklahoma.
I work in IT. This is what happened when those two worlds collided.
She kept running into the same frustrations — tools without a good home, stations that never quite worked the way she needed, solutions that clearly weren't designed by anyone who'd ever groomed a dog. The stuff on the market either didn't fit right, cost too much, or fell apart after a few weeks of real use.
So I bought a 3D printer. I figured I could fix a few things around the shop. Now I have two printers running, a growing Etsy store, and a catalog of products that started as solutions to real problems in a real shop.
Every design starts with a specific frustration. I watch how my wife works, I talk to other groomers and barbers, and I build something that actually solves the problem — not something that looks good on a product page but breaks the first week. If it doesn't hold up in her shop, it doesn't ship.
No warehouse. No employees. No shortcuts. Just me, two machines, and a problem worth solving.
— Jay, Leyline 3D Prints