Care and tips for Thinners, Texturizers, Blenders & Chunkers. (TTBC)

Many Stylists and even sharpeners do not realize these shears can be serviced and sharpened. If you purchase a good quality TTBC and take good care of them service as needed these can easily last you your entire career.
A little extra care needs to be used on these tools, always keep clean and oiled and the tension should always be a little tighter than a regular cutting shear. Great care must be used to not drop or bump these tools even the slightest Damage to either the toothed blade or cutting blade will make these shears not function. Never force these shears to cut if they are not functioning properly, you will end up damaging the fine teeth and lowering the chances of these being serviced and used for many more years.
The best way to test these and see if they are functioning properly is to make a cut on a client with nice straight hair, keep them closed and try to pull them out of the hair, if the come out easily, like a comb your good to go, if they grab or pull any hair or do not slide out of the hair easily you need to have these serviced. Be very carefully on the type of company you choose to service tools like this, They are very tricky to recondition properly and many of the sharpening companies will grind on the toothed blade, ultimately effecting the performance and the percentage of hair they were designed to cut. Many companies will tell you they can’t be serviced and work at selling you a new pair.