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Hot take: the old barber on 5th in Canton saved my fading before I ever knew what fading meant
Back in 2019 I was helping out at a shop on 5th in Canton and the owner was this 70-something guy who cut hair with a straight razor and a comb, no clippers on the sides. He watched me do a taper on a kid and stopped me halfway, took the clippers out of my hand and did the blend with just scissors for about 8 minutes. He told me "the clipper is a shortcut, not the skill" and made me do the next 3 cuts with scissor-over-comb only. It felt slow and sloppy at the time but I still lean on that motion when a fade gets patchy near the crown.
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graydavis17d ago
Wait, the clipper is a shortcut? That's rich coming from the guy who probably never had to crank out 30 cuts on a Saturday. I mean, I get what he was saying about the skill part, but lets be real, nobody is paying for an 8 minute scissor blend on every head. The old timers love to act like clippers are cheating when half of them can't even do a clean bald line without digging in. Still, that moment where he grabbed the clippers out of your hand is kind of hilarious in a "wise old master" movie way. Maybe it's just me but I bet he went home and used a flowbee. In all seriousness though, that scissor over comb trick for a patchy crown is real, I've bailed myself out that way more than once.
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