Question on use of a ceramic blade
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| It's not super fast, especially for those of us who don't do it all the time! It does help to have all mats and tangles brushed out. If there's anything for a 3 3/4 blade to get hung up on, it will. |
ButtersStotch wrote: It's not super fast, especially for those of us who don't do it all the time! It does help to have all mats and tangles brushed out. If there's anything for a 3 3/4 blade to get hung up on, it will.
Exactly. My #10 steel blades go thru the hair with the same ease as my #3-3/4 blades. I have both ceramic and steel in all of my blades. For the #3-3/4 blade to give the desired effect it needs to be run flat along the body with the grain of the hair & the coat needs to be mat free. I don't mean to sound negative or nasty about this but Jill will attest to this fact. When we breeders say "mat free" we mean something entirely different from the usual companion owner's idea of "mat free". I spend about 4 hours brushing out & slickering out my dogs BEFORE I shave them with the #3-3/4 blade. Seems kinda of a waste to get them looking so good only to shave it all off.  But if I want them to look good & have the blade work correcty, this is how it needs to be done. Also, reoil & change blades on & off during the shave down. I brush out, shave, bathe, dry & shave again and then do some minor trimming with scissors around the butt, feet, nose & ears for the finished product. Takes me about a total of 7 hours to do one dog completely. If you can't spare that much time all at once, you can brush out the night before & then do the shaving & bathing the next day. |
| The only way a ceramic clipper blade will work properly is if it is clean. And I mean really clean. Most people that don't like ceramic blades don't know that cleaning them is required to make them cut properly. They aren't anything like steel clipper blades. Steel blades will cut dirty. Ceramic blades won't. After every use they must be cleaned. 10 seconds in a blade wash is all that is required, but it is required for them to work properly.
Never, ever, ever use ceramic blades on a dirty animal. Never. One piece of sand will dull the ceramic cutter instantly. New cutters (the part that moves back and forth) can be purchased for around $10-$15. Ceramic cutters can not be sharpened, but the comb can be sharpened over and over again. Also, cermaic blades do not tollerate being "tossed into a drawer". The creamic cutter will chip or break VERY easily. It's also not very clean in the drawer. 
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