PSA: A shop owner in Cleveland told me to stop pushing clipper blades past a #2 guard on thick hair and he was dead on

Wesley Gibson · 2026-10-18T16:45:03.908837+00:00

I ignored him for a bit and burned up two blades in a single Saturday doing fades on guys with coarse hair, and now I keep a #3 as my ceiling for that texture, so has anyone else found that guard number matters more than blade brand for the heavy stuff?

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PSA: A shop owner in Cleveland told me to stop pushing clipper blades past a #2 guard on thick hair and he was dead on | Barbers - Thought Shares