Clipping advice!

[Spudlet]

I have borrowed some clippers!

Now - which guard is the longest - I am assuming it is like people, in that a number 1 will give the shortest clip and a number 5 the longest?

I will post piccies of the results

 

[kirstyhen]

We don't have guards on our clippers at work, well they do but it's just the metal blade that's thicker rather than a plastic guard like on human hair clippers. If I was doing a Cocker I'd do it on a three or a five, depending on how well covered the dog was/how short the owners wanted it.
If I wasn't sure I'd start on a five then take it shorter if it didn't look right.

Just to add, on our clippers a three is short, and a 12 is long. We have a 2 blade but that would be surgical clipping short!

 

[numptynoelle]

There you go - do all his left side on 3 and then his right side on 5 and see which one looks better.....

I demand photos or I'm going to sit and huff.

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Deffo need piccies!!!

Start with a chaser clip - if it goes t*ts up you can give him a full clip instead.......

 

[numptynoelle]

That's silly talk Slinky - Henry OBVIOUSLY needs a hunter clip after the chaser clip. We will award marks for symmetricallness of the sides of the saddle patch. Or summat like that

 

[PucciNPoni]

I have borrowed some clippers!

Now - which guard is the longest - I am assuming it is like people, in that a number 1 will give the shortest clip and a number 5 the longest?

I will post piccies of the results

Compare the guards side by side - teh longer the teeth the longer it will leave the hair. Depending on the make of the combs blades...some will higher numbers will leave it longer and some will leave them shorter. Some will actually give you a measurement in MM (eg 3mm, 5mm, 13mm) that is the length it will be left. I would do a 3mm on most cockers (which in my blades is a 7F...and a 6mm is a 5F...surgical short is a 40 (which is .2mm) Wouldna try to clip anything that has a super thick or matted coat with guards tho.