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Finally figured out my clipper fade issue after 5 years of barbering

I was at a shop in Austin last Tuesday and a customer asked why my half guards always left a visible line. Turns out I was using the lever wrong on my Wahl Seniors the whole time. I never realized you're supposed to close the lever halfway before blending, not all the way open. Has anyone else had that 'oh duh' moment with something they thought they knew?
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angela_hart
Oh wow, that's a tough one to miss for five years but I get it! @nelson.wren, I had a similar wake-up call with my own clippers when I kept getting a hard line between my open and closed lever settings. I finally watched a YouTube breakdown from a barber in Chicago who explained the whole half-closed blending trick, and it saved me hours of frustration.
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nelson.wren
Five years is a long time to deal with that frustration.
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