{"id":35,"date":"2026-09-05T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/clippers-shears-and-razors-barber-tools-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:10:43","slug":"clippers-shears-and-razors-barber-tools-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/clippers-shears-and-razors-barber-tools-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers, shears and razors: barber tools explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching a barber switch between five tools in ten minutes can look like showmanship. Every tool has a specific job, and knowing them helps you ask for exactly what you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clippers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The workhorse. Guards from 0 to 8 set the length, and the lever fine-tunes it between guard sizes. Clippers create fades, short sides and bulk removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trimmers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smaller, sharper and used without guards for outlines: the hairline, around the ears and the neck. This is what makes a cut look crisp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shears and thinning shears<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scissors do the work on top and on longer hair. Thinning shears remove weight without changing length, which is how thick hair is made to sit flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The straight razor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Used for the final detail on a line-up and for traditional shaves. A fresh blade every client, always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you ask for &quot;scissors on top, number two on the sides&quot;, you are now speaking the barber&#039;s language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a barber switch between five tools in ten minutes can look like showmanship. Every tool has a specific job, and knowing them helps you ask\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grooming-tips","tag-barbering","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}