Thanks so much for your feedback! 🙏❤🙏 Trying to explain things in a way that would have been more clear for me when I was first learning how to groom. Glad it was helpful! 😊
Thank you so much! Really helped me because I was a bit confused, but much more understanding! I just found you on RUclips and you explained everything so clear for me and simple. Definitely subscribing to you! I’m a going to school to be come Pet Groomer and as well training and I love it so much! It’s to fun.
Thank you so much! And I adore Irish Wolfhounds - sweet gentle giants with the kindest eyes on the planet. Thank you so much for your feedback; so glad the video may have helped! 😍
Question for you ! I've recently been looking into proper blade care and how to make sure that your blades are tensioned correctly. I found out that the cutter is supposed to slip pretty freely when you're moving it to clean the blade. Some blades come with a little rubber piece underneath the tension spring, are you supposed to leave that on or take it off out of the packaging? Probably a silly question but I haven't seen any clear answers anywhere and I want to make sure I'm handling them properly!
What a great question! First, the little rubber/plastic piece under the spring is done intentionally to reduce metal on metal friction, so leave it on! And yes, back plate should be able to be pushed side to side with some tension, but without strain. If it gets tight, I work on oiling it, rather than adjusting tension (I leave that to my sharpener.) We just released another video on blade maintenance if that may help. Thanks so much for your insightful question, and thanks for watching! 😍 ruclips.net/video/DWtVFBX5HTI/видео.html
Great instructional video. But question: I don't really know why you need different blade sizes if guides are what determine coat length. Why do you ever need to use different blades. For example: Is there any difference using a 3/8" guide with a 10 blade as opposed to using with a 30 blade? Thanks for any info (and apologies if already asked and answered!)
Hi Jonathan! That truly is a great question! Most groomers will use a #30 under their guide-combs 99.999% of the time. The difference between using a #10 or #30 under a guide-comb is not very noticeable, but the better answer is that a #30 under is more efficient and tighter. In terms of the shorter guide-combs vs. blades, the key element is that if you have a matted coat (I mean, all the way to the skin), you'll need a blade, not a guide-comb. The comb will catch and not get under the matting like a #7F or #10 blade is designed to do. Guide-combs are for longer cuts, blades are for shaving. Hope that helps and thanks for your insightful question! 🙏
Good Morning, from beautiful Belize Central America What type of oil or delivery system are you using in the plastic needle that you show to lube the blade? Really enjoying you Instructions!
Hi Ed from beautiful Belize! Welcome to the channel! 😊 In the video, I am using scissor oil from a company called 4420, which is difficult to find. However, there are scissor oils available out there with the needle nozzle (which comes in very handy for oiling your clipper blades!), such as: amzn.to/3dvGzPw. Hope this helps and thanks for watching! 🙏
Hi Emily, great question, and great timing! I just sent some of my dull blades to my sharpener who will send them back to me sharp in a couple of days. The easiest way to find a sharpener in your area is to call a local grooming salon and ask who they use for sharpening. If that doesn't work, and you still can't find someone local through Google, you can arrange to ship the blades to a sharpening service. An example of one in the US is Precision Sharp ( www.precisionsharp.com/precision-sharp-services/ ). Just follow the instructions, mail them your blades, and you should get them back like new. Hope this helps, and thanks so much for joining the channel! 🙏
New to your channel. Everything you could possibly want to know about grooming is answered, very detailed. Thank you. I do have one question though. I'm just learning on how to groom my female havanese and I am using a Wahl Arco clipper which has a 5 in 1 blade which didn't come with instructions, what are the different numbers used for?
Hi Rick, glad to be of service, and what a great question! The 5-in-1 adjustable blades usually come in the following lengths, starting Left to Right, if looking directly at the switch to change lengths: #9, #10, #15, #30, #40. The longest of the five options is the #9 at 2mm (you can look at the blade move as you adjust, and the #9 will be the farthest placement between the front and back blade). So, every length on this blade is SHORT! The #40 is considered a "surgical shave" and is only used in very extreme circumstances. Out of the five options, Groomers usually mainly use two of them: #10 (for sanitary clips, clipping matting behind ears, beginner paw-pad shaves), and #30 (for advanced paw-pad shaves, and as the de-facto blade to use under guide combs.) The guide-combs are where you do your puppy cuts, but with a coated dog like a Hav, sometimes you may need to have more juice (like a corded clipper), depending on the thickness of her coat. But I am absolutely able to get thru some of my Hav clients with my detail clipper and a guard comb. Hope that helps, and thanks so much for joining the channel! 👍💕
That is true! A reasonable schedule is to oil the blades at the end of the day, while spraying coolant throughout the day to maintain the blades. Thanks for the input!
Hi there, great question! Due to hundreds of years of genetic manipulation by humans, many dogs that we see today are so far from their original wolf ancestry that they cannot live in the wild without human care. Dogs today have two main types of coats: a coat that stops growing, and a coat that keeps growing. If you left a Poodle in the wild (with a coat that keeps growing), eventually they would be encased in their own hair, preventing movement and blocking bladder and bowel movements, which typically leads to sepsis and death. On the other end, if you left a short-haired Doberman in the wild, their lack of substantial undercoat and protection from the elements would also not allow this breed to thrive in the wild. But your latter point is valid - for anyone who is not willing to educate and participate in proper coat maintenance for their dogs should choose a breed or mix that is very low maintenance. But even with a low-maintenance coat, we still have to maintain their nail length, ear cleanliness, oral health, and overall wellness. Our pups are something much different than wild animals now; they are our family members, and we maintain their coats, whatever coat type they may be, in the way that keeps them healthy and happy. Hope that answers, thanks for your question!
Have you ever cut your own hair? Nicely explained Gina, but also in response to tensquare, I adopt rescue dogs only and do not pick and do not have the luxury of choosing breed specifics. I adopted a puppy 16 years ago and had no idea what length his coat would be nor was it even a concern (because who cares), if he needed grooming, then groom him, what’s the big deal? I adopted him because he needed a loving home. If a person owns an old English sheep dog as example and decides that it’s unethical to clip that dog and then decides that it’s too time consuming and exhausting having to groom them daily (because that’s what it takes) they would be prosecuted for cruelty. Ever seen an ungroomed long haired dog, plenty to go see in welfare shelters because the owners are not prepared to have their dogs groomed.
Short, to the point, very informative! Couldn’t ask for a better video! Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind comment! And thanks for watching! 🙏😍
Best video that I have seen on clipper blades. Thank you
Thanks so much for your feedback! 🙏❤🙏 Trying to explain things in a way that would have been more clear for me when I was first learning how to groom. Glad it was helpful! 😊
Love the chart with the meaning of all the sizes, those had really been confusing me!
Oh, that's great, thank you so much for the feedback! 🙏
Thank you so much! Really helped me because I was a bit confused, but much more understanding! I just found you on RUclips and you explained everything so clear for me and simple. Definitely subscribing to you! I’m a going to school to be come Pet Groomer and as well training and I love it so much! It’s to fun.
Hi Azra, welcome! And congratulations on your new career - you are going to love it! Thanks so much for watching and for your kind feedback! 💕
Very well explained - thank you from Adelaide Australia.
Hello David from Australia! Thanks for your feedback, and glad to be of service! 🙏😊
You're amazing, thank you!
Thank you so much! And I adore Irish Wolfhounds - sweet gentle giants with the kindest eyes on the planet. Thank you so much for your feedback; so glad the video may have helped! 😍
Nice vid, thank you :)
Happy to help, thank you! 🙏
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Question for you ! I've recently been looking into proper blade care and how to make sure that your blades are tensioned correctly. I found out that the cutter is supposed to slip pretty freely when you're moving it to clean the blade. Some blades come with a little rubber piece underneath the tension spring, are you supposed to leave that on or take it off out of the packaging? Probably a silly question but I haven't seen any clear answers anywhere and I want to make sure I'm handling them properly!
What a great question! First, the little rubber/plastic piece under the spring is done intentionally to reduce metal on metal friction, so leave it on! And yes, back plate should be able to be pushed side to side with some tension, but without strain. If it gets tight, I work on oiling it, rather than adjusting tension (I leave that to my sharpener.) We just released another video on blade maintenance if that may help. Thanks so much for your insightful question, and thanks for watching! 😍 ruclips.net/video/DWtVFBX5HTI/видео.html
Great instructional video. But question: I don't really know why you need different blade sizes if guides are what determine coat length. Why do you ever need to use different blades. For example: Is there any difference using a 3/8" guide with a 10 blade as opposed to using with a 30 blade? Thanks for any info (and apologies if already asked and answered!)
Hi Jonathan! That truly is a great question! Most groomers will use a #30 under their guide-combs 99.999% of the time. The difference between using a #10 or #30 under a guide-comb is not very noticeable, but the better answer is that a #30 under is more efficient and tighter. In terms of the shorter guide-combs vs. blades, the key element is that if you have a matted coat (I mean, all the way to the skin), you'll need a blade, not a guide-comb. The comb will catch and not get under the matting like a #7F or #10 blade is designed to do. Guide-combs are for longer cuts, blades are for shaving. Hope that helps and thanks for your insightful question! 🙏
Good Morning, from beautiful Belize Central America
What type of oil or delivery system are you using in the plastic needle that you show to lube the blade?
Really enjoying you Instructions!
Hi Ed from beautiful Belize! Welcome to the channel! 😊 In the video, I am using scissor oil from a company called 4420, which is difficult to find. However, there are scissor oils available out there with the needle nozzle (which comes in very handy for oiling your clipper blades!), such as: amzn.to/3dvGzPw. Hope this helps and thanks for watching! 🙏
Thanks so much Gina! I have a question: how do you get blades sharpened?
Hi Emily, great question, and great timing! I just sent some of my dull blades to my sharpener who will send them back to me sharp in a couple of days. The easiest way to find a sharpener in your area is to call a local grooming salon and ask who they use for sharpening. If that doesn't work, and you still can't find someone local through Google, you can arrange to ship the blades to a sharpening service. An example of one in the US is Precision Sharp ( www.precisionsharp.com/precision-sharp-services/ ). Just follow the instructions, mail them your blades, and you should get them back like new. Hope this helps, and thanks so much for joining the channel! 🙏
New to your channel. Everything you could possibly want to know about grooming is answered, very detailed. Thank you. I do have one question though. I'm just learning on how to groom my female havanese and I am using a Wahl Arco clipper which has a 5 in 1 blade which didn't come with instructions, what are the different numbers used for?
Hi Rick, glad to be of service, and what a great question! The 5-in-1 adjustable blades usually come in the following lengths, starting Left to Right, if looking directly at the switch to change lengths: #9, #10, #15, #30, #40. The longest of the five options is the #9 at 2mm (you can look at the blade move as you adjust, and the #9 will be the farthest placement between the front and back blade). So, every length on this blade is SHORT! The #40 is considered a "surgical shave" and is only used in very extreme circumstances. Out of the five options, Groomers usually mainly use two of them: #10 (for sanitary clips, clipping matting behind ears, beginner paw-pad shaves), and #30 (for advanced paw-pad shaves, and as the de-facto blade to use under guide combs.) The guide-combs are where you do your puppy cuts, but with a coated dog like a Hav, sometimes you may need to have more juice (like a corded clipper), depending on the thickness of her coat. But I am absolutely able to get thru some of my Hav clients with my detail clipper and a guard comb. Hope that helps, and thanks so much for joining the channel! 👍💕
@@GinasGrooming thank you for replying to my question, it was a huge help in understanding the blade numbering.
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Hi Iyappan! Hope you are enjoying the channel! 😊
Coolants don't contain enough oil to adequately lubricate blades. Apply blade oil after using coolants.
That is true! A reasonable schedule is to oil the blades at the end of the day, while spraying coolant throughout the day to maintain the blades. Thanks for the input!
What do these animals do in the wild? Why interfere? If you want a dog with short hair, choose a short hair breed.
Hi there, great question! Due to hundreds of years of genetic manipulation by humans, many dogs that we see today are so far from their original wolf ancestry that they cannot live in the wild without human care. Dogs today have two main types of coats: a coat that stops growing, and a coat that keeps growing. If you left a Poodle in the wild (with a coat that keeps growing), eventually they would be encased in their own hair, preventing movement and blocking bladder and bowel movements, which typically leads to sepsis and death. On the other end, if you left a short-haired Doberman in the wild, their lack of substantial undercoat and protection from the elements would also not allow this breed to thrive in the wild. But your latter point is valid - for anyone who is not willing to educate and participate in proper coat maintenance for their dogs should choose a breed or mix that is very low maintenance. But even with a low-maintenance coat, we still have to maintain their nail length, ear cleanliness, oral health, and overall wellness. Our pups are something much different than wild animals now; they are our family members, and we maintain their coats, whatever coat type they may be, in the way that keeps them healthy and happy. Hope that answers, thanks for your question!
Have you ever cut your own hair? Nicely explained Gina, but also in response to tensquare, I adopt rescue dogs only and do not pick and do not have the luxury of choosing breed specifics. I adopted a puppy 16 years ago and had no idea what length his coat would be nor was it even a concern (because who cares), if he needed grooming, then groom him, what’s the big deal? I adopted him because he needed a loving home. If a person owns an old English sheep dog as example and decides that it’s unethical to clip that dog and then decides that it’s too time consuming and exhausting having to groom them daily (because that’s what it takes) they would be prosecuted for cruelty. Ever seen an ungroomed long haired dog, plenty to go see in welfare shelters because the owners are not prepared to have their dogs groomed.