Blew out a shaver mid-fade on a busy Saturday in Austin

I was working on a client at my chair in East Austin last weekend, doing a skin fade, and about halfway through my Andis shaver just died. Like, completely stopped buzzing. I panicked for a second because this guy had a full beard and I was right in the middle of blending his neckline. So I told him, give me two minutes, I had a backup pair of Wahl Balding clippers in my drawer that I barely ever use. I ran water over them to cool the blades, dried them off, and finished the fade using the clipper over comb method to clean up the edges. It actually came out cleaner than usual, and the client tipped me an extra 10 bucks. Has anyone else had a tool die on them during a cut and had to improvise? What do you keep as backup in your station?

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rubyk8617d ago

Those Andis shavers always die at the worst time, don't they?

gavin_hill2717d ago

Respectfully, I gotta disagree with @rubyk86 on that one, mine have been solid for years.