Skip to main content

Best Barber Tools: Best Cordless Clippers


Barberhacks is the barbering blog that will help you Barber Better. It thoroughly examines barbering, starting with an in-depth look at the gear you need and working slowly into the fine barbering tips that will help you master your craft. Barberhacks is the blog that you will come back to time and time again.

Any links I leave are affiliate links, and I make a small commission from them. So, if you like my suggestions, please use the links. 

JRL Onyx Professional

Three hours of charging for five hours of run time? What's not to like about the JRL? It's super quiet and ultra-light. These new clippers are not going to hurt your forearm to lift and have an ergonomic (they're nice to hold) form. It has a display so that you know how much time you have left on the battery. Why don't more companies do that? 

The clicky lever makes it easy to know where you're at and where you're going. It has two speeds, so you can slow it down and use it like a Fast Feed. 

This comes with guards from a 0 to an 8 - and while it is strong - you might still need a detachable guard clipper to remove bulk.  

Bonus: Get the JRL Fade Blade to get those fades tight. 


Want a clipper that is great for both hands? Look no further—this one has a lever that can be removed and put on the other side. Left-handed Barbers, this is the one for you.

I love this thing's magnetic guards, but I like everything that's dummy proof - you never have to worry about your clipper taking a bite out of someone's hair when the guard falls off. 

If you like the feel of a metal body - this one has a metal body - but that always comes with a bit of weight. 

 

It has a four-hour run time with a two-hour charge. 11 thousand strokes a minute. This cuts through bulk (but get a detachable for that and use this to fade). The fun thing about this clipper is that it gears up and down depending on the job you give it. Bulk? It gears up to remove it. Fading, it is slower and quieter. 

Cordless Oster 76

The mother of all cordless detachables - the Oster Classic 76. This is the classic detachable clipper and it is powerful enough to speed up all your cuts - taking off bulk with no slowdown. If you're wanting to get through more cuts quicker, invest in these and learn how to skip guard. Cut your cord, keep the power. 

The Wahl Cordless Magic Clips

First off, let’s talk about the Wahl Cordless Magic Clips. As far as cordless clippers go, these seem to be the most popular ones on the market, and for good reason. They’re fairly powerful; you can zero fade with these clippers, and the gap-toothed blade adds texture to the hair while tapering or blending. These clippers are lighter than most in your hand, so if you hate the Andis Masters or Wahl Seniors, these clippers seem weightless. And they’re cordless. You are no longer tethered to having to pull at your cord when you want that little extra length. With these, you can turn the clipper upside down and walk away from your station. For house calls, you can now pull a clipper out, cut someone’s hair anywhere, and look like a boss. These clippers are legit.

Saying that, I have to highlight what I don’t like about these clippers. Their battery life...not the greatest in the world, but not the worst either. If you want to run these clippers all day with every client, you will have to buy two (or more) of them, and I don’t think Wahl minds that this is the case. If you buy a corded Magic Clip, you only need one. With the cordless, I’ve seen setups with people running as many as 4 simultaneously, one with a balding blade, two with the crunch blade, and so on. This is not ideal, but I’m sure I’ll hear from a couple of people that there is no better clipper, and I’m sure that is true for them. When you run the battery down on the Magic Clip, its power becomes garbage. You couldn’t cut a newborn’s hair with them, let alone a massive head of coarse hair. So, the battery, although better than previous cordless clippers, still needs a little help.

Many people don’t like the crunch blade that comes with them, they say it snags the scalp or doesn’t get close enough, but I haven’t had any issues with the blade and think it cuts really well.


The Wahl Cordless Senior

Wahl is releasing the Cordless Five-Star Senior, which offers power and a smooth fade. It is the clipper I reach for when I want a levered clipper that can go through a lot of hair. Try them with the crunch blade as an alternative. 

Babyliss SnapFX 

Babyliss’ fan favorite cordless clipper with batteries that you can swap out? This is a game changer for a clipper that gets gutless after an hour of use. Like having three of clippers - you’ll never have to worry about a flat battery again. When one dies, you have two more batteries on hand to keep the clients coming in and out of your chair. 

Thanks for reading this week...if you like what you're reading and also want to purchase something that I’m writing about, please follow the links that I leave for you. They get you a premium product at no extra cost to you and also give me a little something as well.
Thanks,
Martin


All links are affiliate links that help the creator of Barberhack earn commissions.





Popular posts from this blog

Barber Hacks: 10 Monumental Tips That Will Change How You Barber

Barberhacks is an online resource for barbers to help them improve in every aspect of the business. Disorganized Chaos I don’t know how I used to do it when I was younger, I’ve gotten to the point in my career where that is pretty far removed from the present. Like a lot of barbers I’m mostly self-taught, meaning there was little structure in the way that I approached cutting hair. I have always had a disorganized chaos going on on my station while I am cutting, I’ll casually toss guards onto the countertop as I progress into my cuts. I’ll grab scissors and place them haphazardly about. I’m getting the job done, so it doesn’t matter what happens while I’m doing it, does it? This is not to say that I have been a complete mess in my past, just unorganized as I cut. Because who notices the little points like that? In Barbershops, the customer is looking the other way, aren’t they? I’ve started to break down my routine recently, especially when it comes to my service, my clea...
Read more

Best Barber Tools: 5 Most Powerful Detachable Blade Clippers

Welcome to Barber Hacks, the website that is going to help you become the most well rounded barber in your barbershop. Beginner and advanced barbering knowledge to help you perform to the best of your ability day to day in the barbershop. Disclaimer : I provide links to Amazon to products that I believe in. Feel free to purchase these products from the links that I provide. You will not be charged extra, but it will provide me with a small percentage of profits. Thank you.r Detachable blade clippers (DBC) are every barber’s friend. What is a DBC? You’ve got your clipper, it works getting through the thickest heads of hair...most of the time. If you get a couple of snags every once in awhile, no big deal right? Wrong. Make your job easier invest in a DBC, a power tool that will cut through every head of hair like butter.  If you are cutting volume, and cutting thick hair often, DBC are your high performance vehicles, that muscle when you want the extra juice, but they are als...
Read more

Barber Hacks: 5 Tips To Create Loyal Customers

Barberhacks is here to help you become the best barber that you can be. This blog focuses on how to Barber Better. I spend all day standing behind a chair, and I hardly ever sit in one. I’m never a customer, so how am I supposed to relate to one? I’ve talked about this before, but since I’ve started researching for a book that I plan to write, I’m thinking about this idea a lot. What does a guest think, what does a guest want? We’re in customer service after all, we’re groomers, we make others look and feel good about themselves and their looks. I’m beginning to realize it's not all about getting the crispiest fade, or the most technical haircut, service is a large part of what makes people feel satisfied. I started my career as an assistant in a salon that charged a minimum of $100 for a haircut, and a good part of our reputation was built on customer service. I didn’t quite understand why I did what I did, but I made sure that every customer that came through the doo...
Read more