Like all our other hardware, this item can last you a lifetime or more. Made of chunky stainless steel this baby will nor bend, distort or deform unless you use it to test a Nile crocodile's bite strength. It fits nice and large in your hand, and makes clipping your keratin a breeze. a Chappies 'did you know' fact.... Nails grow at an average rate of around 1 cm every 100 days.