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That old retired barber who corrected my clipper angle trick

Back in 2011, I was cutting at a shop off Broadway in Everett and this older gent, maybe 70, sat down for a trim. He watched me do a fade and then said, 'Son, you're lifting at the wrist like it's a paintbrush, but you need to glide the whole arm.' Honestly, I shrugged it off at first, but he came back every two weeks for six months and kept chatting about pressure and flicking. One day he brought in his old Oster 76s from 1974 and showed me how he'd adjust the blade tension by feel alone. That little lesson stuck with me longer than any $200 class I took later. Has anyone else had a customer or old timer give them a tip that totally rewired how they hold the clippers?

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the_robert8d ago

Did you ever try his tension trick on a newer pair? A old dude at my shop showed me to feel the blade drag on my thumb before every cut and it made my fades way smoother.

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