Wanted to post about new clipper blades crapping out. Something wrong with forum. Only posting 4-5 sentences at a time 
I don’t body clip but I would think any blades would need sharpening after doing 2 horses. That is a lot of clipping.
Only clipped 1 horse and only managed 2/3 of him using 2 brand new clipper blades.
Sorry- something wrong with COTH posting on my phone. It only allows a couple sentences, so my full post is getting cut off.
I would be upset then too.
Andis has good customer service at least as far as being very responsive. Maybe try reaching out to them?
The first set of Andis blades I ever bought a few years ago were dull from the factory. I tried my best to blame other things but could not get anything but crazy tracks and didn’t get more than a patch of neck clipped for fear of pulling hair and making my horse hate clipping.
The Andis people were pretty nice when I called to report the new blades that hardly cut and exchanged the blades for a new set via mail rather quickly. Maybe you got unlucky and got 2 blades from a batch that missed the final sharpening?
Noticed this recently, too. Clipped one horse that had been clipped one month earlier—one month!—with new blades and could not even get through her rump. Had two pairs of new blades. Tried the second pair and they were worse than the first. Pulled out a pair of old blades awaiting sharpening and finished the job. The old, dull blades were sharper than both pairs of new blades. Crazy!
I thought I was the only one! I picked up a new pair of T-84s this year and they don’t clip worth crap. I’ll reach out to Andis - thanks for the idea!
they are just about useless chinese crap now…
I’m so happy to read this! I just experienced this very problem today. My #10 Andis blade, used for lower legs and tricky bits, completely stopped working partway through the clip I was doing today. This was only the third horse for that blade – all horses were sparkling clean and I’m very careful a about keeping my blades clean and oiled.
Can I just contact Andis about it or do I need to go through the retailer? (I think, but am not positive, that I bought the blade from SmartPak.)
Wow. Really glad I posted!
Place I bought them from said it was likely my clippers…
I have Double Ks- you know the ones that NEVER give up the ghost. Went and bought Oster blades. No issues
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I have been told that Andis is good to deal with, but I’m going to go ahead and return mine to the place I bought them- let them deal with it.
A friend of mine who clips as a side business says that blades come with a coating that makes the first sharpening (factory sharpening) essentially worthless?
She apparently gets all her blades sharpened before evening using them, straight out of the package.
I use Andis clippers with Wahl blades, though.
Interesting, I had the same thing happen with new blades too.
How interesting—we’ve been thinking it was the clippers needing a servicing but this makes sense. It’s literally like the brand new blades barely cut the hair!
I just wanted to update that I did contact Andis and they are shipping me a replacement blade. They requested I send mine back and I just received the E-mail confirmation that new ones are being shipped.
I was reluctant to do so, thinking it was user error, but after struggling to even do part of the neck for a trace clip, I gave up and went to buy new blades… successfully clipped quickly and cleanly. Hoping the replacements are just as good.
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I also spoke with Andis and they agreed to send a replacement blade. I returned my defective blade over two weeks ago, though, and have yet to receive the new one…
Did you receive a confirmation E-mail after you sent yours in?
