Peacock Aura Sand:
The Free-Position Fidget Slider Guide

The Peacock Aura Sand is a no-rules fidget slider: two halves held by pure magnetism, free to slide, split, and rejoin. This guide covers the TD, SLIM, SLIM-Z, and PRO models, the faceplate ecosystem, and which build to start with.

The Peacock Aura Sand is a fidget slider with no detent, no travel stops, and no fixed rules. Two metal halves are held together by nothing but magnets: they glide in any direction, come fully apart, and snap back together. In a category built on the satisfying click of a mechanical step, the Aura Sand deliberately has none, and that absence is the entire product.

That makes it a different kind of purchase decision. You are not comparing click feels; you are choosing a skill instrument in one of four models, then choosing which faces to put on it. This guide walks the whole line: the mechanism, the TD, SLIM, SLIM-Z, and PRO models, every documented build, the faceplate ecosystem, and which one to start with.

The Aura Sand (Liusha in the maker’s own catalog) is the core product line of Peacock, an independent EDC maker whose work entered collector circulation in mid 2023. It is a fidget slider by form, but it belongs to a small sub-family the hobby calls free-position: sliders with no mechanical detent at all.

The line today spans four models built on one shared footprint: the aluminum TD, the stainless steel SLIM, the SLIM-Z, and the titanium PRO. Every model takes the same faceplates, which is the second half of this product’s story.

The maker’s designer signs work simply as J. The design notes that surface through official channels read personal rather than corporate: a festival one-off described as a love letter, a beginner FAQ that tells you honestly which model to drop on the floor first.

Here is the maker’s own definition, paraphrased from a direct ruling: a normal slider has screws or body stops that keep it from coming apart at the end of its travel. A free-position slider removes them. Push left, push right, the two halves can fully separate, and there are no fixed rules for how you play it. That is why the category is called free-position.

The mechanism is pure magnet. No bearing, no ratchet, no spring. Magnetic force does three jobs at once: it holds the halves together, it carries the glide, and it pulls the piece back into one body after a separation. Nothing clicks, because there is nothing to click.

If you know magnetic sliders like the ACEdc Gamer, note the direction of the trick. A magnetic-detent slider uses magnets to build invisible steps, so every push lands on a satisfying grid. The Aura Sand uses magnets to erase the grid entirely. Same force, opposite philosophy: one gives you feedback, the other gives you a blank surface.

So what fills the space where the detent used to be? You do. Momentum control, catches, separations and rejoins, the whole vocabulary the community calls trick play. The slider stops where your technique says it stops.

Peacock has never marketed the Aura Sand as instantly satisfying. The maker’s own launch video says some of the trick moves need real practice time, and that the slider itself needs a break-in period before it feels right in hand.

The honest consequence appears in the official FAQ, in what may be the most candid line any maker has written about their own product: pick a cheap one first, because your first free-position slider will absorb every mistake of your beginner phase. Drops are not a risk; they are the curriculum.

This is also why the pre-owned market for this piece is unusually rational. A slider that is designed to be dropped during learning is a slider where a verified pre-owned example, already broken in, is arguably the correct first purchase rather than the compromise one.

Four models, one geometry. Per the maker’s FAQ, the three original models differ in material, thickness, and internal structure, and share only their length, width, and faceplate size. That shared footprint is a deliberate platform decision, not a coincidence.

The entry and the competition build. Lightest in hand, cheapest to replace, and the one the maker names first for newcomers. Its wear system is a replaceable Teflon sticker.

Described by the maker as a simplified take on the PRO: it keeps a slice of the PRO’s DIY headroom while cutting the construction down to a simpler, cheaper package. Sandblasted, sand-textured body with relief texturing and metal inlay work. This is the version you will most often meet in the wild.

Confirmed by the maker as a fourth model rather than a colorway, launched through the maker’s own channel in one night. Its full specification record is not documented yet, so this guide lists it without inventing details. What IS documented, as of July 2026, is remarkable: Peacock published the SLIM-Z base structure as an open repository on GitHub, with 3DM CAD files and commercial-use guidelines. The maker is precise about what it covers: the base structure only, not a full production package. Still, an EDC maker open-sourcing a slider’s core geometry is nearly unheard of.

The flagship and the internal reference point: when Peacock explains any other model, it explains it relative to the PRO. Largest DIY and tuning headroom in the line.

Two shared subsystems matter across all models. First, consumables: the TD wears Teflon stickers, while SLIM and PRO wear a Teflon baseplate, both cheap and user-replaceable. Second, the contact plate: a flat 1.0 plate and a 2.0 plate with raised corner points shape the glide feel, SLIM and PRO ship on 2.0, and veterans swap plates to tune their own feel. A slider with a consumables aisle and a tuning layer is closer to sports equipment than to a desk toy, and that is precisely the positioning.

The material ladder tracks the model ladder. Aluminum keeps the TD light and cheap, which is what a learning instrument and a competition instrument both want. Stainless steel gives the SLIM its density and its price point. Titanium gives the PRO flagship weight-to-strength headroom for deeper tuning.

Then there is zirconium. The live catalog carries a zirconium SLIM under the Zhulong name, and pre-owned zirconium builds circulate. But the maker’s own edition record for zirconium is not documented, so this guide will not claim it as a confirmed lineage entry. It exists as a catalog fact; its official history is an open question we would rather leave open than invent.

Sizes and weights for the line are not documented in any source this guide trusts, and honest gaps beat guessed numbers. Where the table below lacks a figure, the record genuinely lacks it too.

The single most consequential design decision in the Aura Sand is one sentence in the maker’s FAQ: every faceplate in the series fits every slider in the series, fully interchangeable. One footprint across all models means one faceplate standard forever.

Peacock treated that standard as a canvas from the start. The official faceplate line reads like an art program: the Qingluan colorway in the first summer; the Qixi festival one-off with red and blue paired faces split by a luminous galaxy band, signed by designer J. and never sold; the hand-painted Feilong Zaitian dragon-year plates, deliberately kept unlimited; the Huan-Yuanyang purple-and-white pair that was exclusive to the SLIM first run and then returned as a standalone faceplate.

One correction to the wider record: an Aura Sand faceplate has no cord hole. Listings elsewhere sometimes describe these plates as bead-style accessories, but the maker confirms the plates are faceplates only, made to mount on the slider body. If you see one described otherwise, trust the geometry.

A stable, universal mounting standard did what stable standards do: it attracted other makers. The Aura Sand faceplate is now a recognized third-party format in the hobby, and the maker has confirmed the third-party scene is real and sanctioned in at least one case. The documented examples span a striking range of craft. One studio produces cloisonne enamel plates under authorization from Peacock, including a Dunhuang-themed zodiac series in runs of ten to twelve pieces. Another maker hand-builds one-off plates from shell paper, iridescent films, and luminous materials, no two alike, in a run of one hundred. A design house shipped a licensed character-collab set of four plates. Enamel, hand painting, plush, character art: all of it lands on the same slider.

For a buyer this changes what the purchase is. A detent slider is finished the day you buy it. An Aura Sand is a base: the body sets the feel, and the face is an ongoing collecting lane of its own, with official specials and third-party art competing for the same two slots on your slider. And in July 2026 Peacock took the platform idea one step further than any faceplate: it open-sourced the SLIM-Z base structure itself. The faceplate standard invited artists onto the slider; the open structure invites builders into it.

Answer two questions: how experienced are you with free-position play, and do you care more about the instrument or the object?

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Peacock is a small independent EDC workshop whose catalog is, essentially, the Aura Sand platform: the slider models, the faceplate program, and the accessories around them. Industry coverage first unboxed the brand in mid 2023, and its designer signs published design notes simply as J.

The brand communicates like a club rather than a company: launch posts read as letters to regulars, the FAQ gives advice that costs it money (buy the cheap one first), and festival pieces are sometimes made to be given away rather than sold. In a market where limited runs are usually a pricing strategy, Peacock keeping its dragon-year festival release deliberately unlimited was a statement of intent.

The platform is still growing: at a spring 2026 show the maker previewed an accessory-scale mini free-position slider under the working name Aura Sand BABY, explicitly not final. The faceplate standard, presumably, will follow it. For the mechanical opposite of this piece, read our LAUTIE Choc engineering guide.

Most sliders sell you a feeling; the Aura Sand sells you a skill and a canvas. The magnetic free-position mechanism has no detent to impress you on day one, and that is exactly why the people who learn it keep it. Around that mechanism, one shared footprint and one universal faceplate standard have grown a genuine ecosystem: four body models, an official art program, and a third-party craft scene working in enamel and hand paint.

Start on a stainless build, keep a spare Teflon plate, give it two honest weeks. The catalog pieces above are verified in stock today, and the wider pre-owned slider collection rotates weekly. A dedicated display case exists for the day the collection outgrows your pocket.

Last updated: July 18, 2026. Built from the maker’s official release record and direct maker rulings; where the record lacks a figure, this guide says N/D rather than guessing.