As the safety manager of your blades you can prevent accidents. Even when your blades come back from the sharpener, check them for tooth sharpness.Īlso look to see if any teeth of the cutter are hanging over the edge of the comb blade. If you have blades like this, or similar F blades, run your finger along the teeth periodically to check for sharpness. Look at the many pointed teeth which can become sharp after running through coarse animal hair long enough. How one uses a skip tooth blade determines if it is dangerous or not. Skip tooth blades are as safe as F blades if they don’t have sharp tips which risk cutting skin or poking your hand when mounting them on clippers. Many groomers consider it a dangerous blade. For our example I will use a 7 skip tooth blade. If you identify the sharp teeth as part of preventative blade maintenance you can fix the problem. For this reason alone some groomers avoid using skip tooth blades. Careful! They can literally make slices in the animals skin if they are sharp enough. Skip tooth blades are very prone to being “sharpened” by coarse hair. With repeated use over time coarse hair can cause blade tips to become very sharp and pointy. Inspect your blades and see the differences.ĭog hair can be very coarse. Sharpeners can only make the tips sharp or razor edges of the entire front of blades on three sizes. The larger the chamfering (or bevel) the higher the blade cuts. In the illustration below look for the “sharpening part” which is sharpened by sharpeners, and then look for “chamfered or beveled part” which gives the blade its cutting size. What is the cause of the problem? Animal hair is a likely culprit. Because most clipper blades are chamfered sharpeners never make tips sharp. Sharpeners limit sharpening to the parts of blades with cutting surfaces. When groomers feel sharp or very pointy teeth they often blame their sharpeners. By Jeff Andrews, Northern Tails Sharpening
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