Knee pads that stay up. Gloves that don't go at the fingertips.
If you've worn knee pads for a living, you know they're at your shins by mid-morning. And every pair of gloves goes at the fingertips first, usually inside a month. We're making a version of each that fixes that one problem and leaves everything else alone. Leave your email and you'll get the first batch before anyone else does.
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We'll email you when the first batch is ready. If someone on your crew has the same problem, send them this link.
This is a render of the design, not a photo of a finished product.
Two products. We changed one thing on each.
Knee pads that stay up
These are the same gel knee pads you'd buy at the supply house: gel core, hard cap, two straps. The only thing we changed is the thigh band.
We put a strip of silicone dots on the inside of the band, the same stuff that keeps a work sock or a pair of cycling shorts from sliding, so the band holds onto your pant leg instead of slipping down it. The lower strap sits under your calf, not behind your knee where it rubs.
You can have the usual hard cap, or a soft rubber cap that won't scratch tile or hardwood. Pick one on the form. We'll make whichever one more people ask for first.
Before we ship a single pair, the sample has to get through twenty deep squats over canvas work pants without the band dropping below the kneecap, five minutes kneeling on gravel without the gel shifting, and ten washes with the dots still on. We'll post the video, pass or fail.
Gloves that last longer
A normal mechanic-style glove: synthetic leather palm, stretch mesh back, a hook-and-loop strap at the wrist.
The fingertips are where these gloves die, so we doubled them. Thumb, index and middle finger get two layers of leather at the tip. The outer layer is a conductive leather rather than a printed coating, so your phone still works when the glove is wet or worn in.
Before shipping, the sample has to survive two hundred passes on 80 grit sandpaper without wearing through, work a phone screen right after five seconds under a tap, and still do both after twenty washes.
How this works
- 1Put your email in and tell us which one you need.
- 2We test the samples the way described above. If they fail, we don't ship them, and we'll say so.
- 3Everyone on the list gets first shot at the batch, at the prices above.
The two parts we changed
These pictures are renders of the design, not photos. When the samples arrive we'll photograph the real thing, scuffs and all.
