anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my £5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird Turkish
people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:06:53 -0000
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote:

anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my _5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird
Turkish people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....


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On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:06:53 +0000, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my £5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird Turkish
people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....

I happen to have our Wahl trimmer right beside me...just been adjusting
the blades and oiling it.

It came in a complete kit with spacers for different length of hair,
etc., scissors, comb...

Got it from the 'factory shop' a mile down the road!

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Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote

anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my £5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird Turkish
people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....

I use standard cordless hair clippers.

The low end ones don’t work very well, I find they
stall in the thickest part of the hair, but I let it get
much too long and then mow it back to super short,
mainly because its much easier to do that than to
try to do anything fancy when doing it on yourself.

Can be a bit of a shock when you do it in winter.

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All I can tell you is that I use a pair of hair cutting scissors, a beard
trimmer on a shaver and a comb to do mine. Its fine as long as you are not
into hair styling just cutting. I am blind and manage it so it cannot be
that hard you soon learn about layering and which bits not to actually cut
that stick up in the aire if you do like a carrot top.

Every head is of course different, so I cannot really say about anyone else.
The scissors are the key. they have two pointed ends and very accurate
blades, el cheapo scissors don't work.
Brian

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anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my £5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird Turkish
people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....

Yes Its a good idea to find a warm day and do it outside, saves a lot of
cleaning up of hair. also torso naked is good saves lot of itching later on.
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Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote

anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my £5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird Turkish
people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....

I use standard cordless hair clippers.

The low end ones don’t work very well, I find they
stall in the thickest part of the hair, but I let it get
much too long and then mow it back to super short,
mainly because its much easier to do that than to
try to do anything fancy when doing it on yourself.

Can be a bit of a shock when you do it in winter.

On 22 Nov 2017 20:59:36 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:06:53 +0000, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my £5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird Turkish
people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....

I happen to have our Wahl trimmer right beside me...just been adjusting
the blades and oiling it.

It came in a complete kit with spacers for different length of hair,
etc., scissors, comb...


My wife has cut my hair for the past 20yrs with one of those but had a
major panic a couple of months back when she ran it up from the neck
to the top of the head - without the comb spacer attached.

Obviously going for one of those silly cuts - I did feel a bit
sheepish going to the barber to see if he could rescue the cut.

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On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:24:55 GMT, lid (AnthonyL)
wrote:


My wife has cut my hair for the past 20yrs with one of those but had a
major panic a couple of months back when she ran it up from the neck
to the top of the head - without the comb spacer attached.

Obviously going for one of those silly cuts - I did feel a bit
sheepish going to the barber to see if he could rescue the cut.

Did he say that was a shear cheek and fleece you?


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On 22 Nov 2017 20:59:36 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:06:53 +0000, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

anybody recommend the flowbee or any similar device.....my £5 barbers
"Bobbie and Graeme" have retired and all we have now are weird Turkish
people that do silly cuts.....any suggestions welcome ....

I happen to have our Wahl trimmer right beside me...just been adjusting
the blades and oiling it.

It came in a complete kit with spacers for different length of hair,
etc., scissors, comb...

My wife has cut my hair for the past 20yrs with one of those but had
a major panic a couple of months back when she ran it up from the
neck to the top of the head - without the comb spacer attached.

I always do mine that way, much easier when doing yourself.

Obviously going for one of those silly cuts - I did feel a bit
sheepish going to the barber to see if he could rescue the cut.

Some of them refuse to do that apparently.

The obvious fix is to do the whole head that way.

Bob Eager wrote:

I happen to have our Wahl trimmer right beside me...just been adjusting
the blades and oiling it.

That's what I've used for a couple of years

It came in a complete kit with spacers for different length of hair,

I have to double check the tapered ear spacers, to make sure I get the
actual left/right vs stage-left/stage-right correct while looking in the
mirror.

etc., scissors, comb...

And a silly cape?

On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 11:43:26 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:

I happen to have our Wahl trimmer right beside me...just been adjusting
the blades and oiling it.

That's what I've used for a couple of years

It came in a complete kit with spacers for different length of hair,

I have to double check the tapered ear spacers, to make sure I get the
actual left/right vs stage-left/stage-right correct while looking in the
mirror.

etc., scissors, comb...

And a silly cape?

Never use it.

Had to get some more oil recently - but Wahl UK is 500 metres away!

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On 30/12/17 13:00, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 11:43:26 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:

I happen to have our Wahl trimmer right beside me...just been adjusting
the blades and oiling it.

That's what I've used for a couple of years

It came in a complete kit with spacers for different length of hair,

I have to double check the tapered ear spacers, to make sure I get the
actual left/right vs stage-left/stage-right correct while looking in the
mirror.

etc., scissors, comb...

And a silly cape?

Never use it.

Had to get some more oil recently - but Wahl UK is 500 metres away!

If only everything was within wahlking distance..