How To: Best Performance With Perfectly Even Shear Tension

How To Get The Best Out Your Hair Shear

To make sure that your hair shears have the best performance, you should really do two things every day: clean them and adjust the tension.

Having the correct cutting tension is essential for operating the scissors, and with today's blade designs, a little more tension is better than too loose.

Setting the voltage too low can cause the hair to bend or come out of the cut, while setting too high can reduce the length of the edge.

In addition, additional pressure is required to open and close the shear, which contributes to repetitive strain injury. The perfect tension prevents bending and pushing, so opening and closing the scissors is easier.

Setting Tension

Make sure you clean and lubricate the hair shear. 

With the shears free enough (one or two clicks of the tension screw backwards) hold the thumb grip and take the part of the finger about 45 ° towards the point where the blades are connected.

Then release the side of the finger, if it drops, it is too slow and turn the adjuster to the right to tighten.

Repeat this exercise until the open finger section falls down and does not move.

This is the perfect tension.

"The tension must be perfectly uniform from the pin to the tips, if it is not possible to achieve this with the adjustments, it could be that you have worked with inadequate tension for too long and that your scissors need a professional service.