Smooth out your glide and clean your manifold

Thanks for chiming in Tom. I think the only difference some might feel is a lighter wallet

I have never compared a GG glide to another brand on the same wand, so I don't know what / if I would notice any difference.

That being said, my wand is covering a lot of territory so I don't see any reason to go cheap on a replacement. It is making you money, shop accordingly.

So my wand is a pmf 802....its a pretty good wand but I still need a second wand to mix it up when i run into certain issues. Im sure a glide will make my day. I will soon figure out how they help. I didnt have much luck catching anyone at GG...I wanted to but im anxious when I start my day and the early bird gets the worm.

Dont they just have to program one guide into to program and hust dial in repeat. Computer guided machines are amazing. All mt wand-eeze's are lazer cut and engraved.

Yep!...CNC its all automated....the trick is having enough of each for each wand...when you order they dont like to just make say a 100 of one....Im sure they have to order like 500 or more of each model...if they dont have them they cant sell them...its expensive to hold 500 of each model and each glide to each model....thats why they get so expensive.

The shop i use will make quantities as low as 25 units. Of cource the more made the less the cost. But its not much less, Design time is the real initial cost factor. Still not that much. The uniqueness and necessity of glides is the determining factors of the price. Supply and demand.

Glides dont even have labor/ assembly costs other than the cnc. The most labor is putting them into a mailing tube and maiking cists are very minimal.

The shop i use will make quantities as low as 25 units. Of cource the more made the less the cost. But its not much less, Design time is the real initial cost factor.  Still not that much. The uniqueness and necessity of glides is the determining factors of the price. Supply and demand.

CNC mills / lathes are very expensive to buy AND run, even if they dont have actual "labor" in them they have automation and trust me...it's as expensive as labor! to set up a mill or lathe they have labor...then they machine out the amount...if they are doing 25 at a time...they pay the set up each time they need 25 AND the time that expensive thing is running ...Im not sure how well or how many they sell but I can tell you this.... Im pretty sure its way more than 25 units a shot "per style".

You can't really compair your products manufacturing process against another....In mine we have 2 $60k molds and still have minimum orders to make it worth while and with set up fees.....I also need my price low enough to help the end user afford the product...there wont be a supply and demand issue without pricing correctly. A correctly priced product will do very well when everyone involved makes a little and the end user still gets the value.

If they are only making 25 at a time they will go broke at $200 a pop. The money is made in volume. There is a 3X to 5X rule....if you dont understand it...you will likely not do well around manufacturing. Then you need to figure out if you will sell direct, retail, or distributor, all this is very important and every single $ seriously compounds in manufacturing.....needs to be low for retailers and even lower for distributors. This is why you see one company sell them for $99 and another for $199....one sells direct and one sells through channels.

Design time on my product was the cheapest price of it all. I think Material quality, CNC w/ setup, and inventory are the monsters in this product....It appears there was some legal issues too, some fighting over product going on (just what I gathered) and with a fight that lasted like this one seemed to ....I can only assume they are making much more than 25 a shot.