Oh man, I feel this in my soul. I spent a whole year convinced my cheap Wahl was the problem and even told a client that once, then my mentor made me do a fade where I watched my own wrist in the mirror and turns out I was tilting the clipper like I was scooping ice cream. Went home and practiced on my own leg for like 20 minutes, which my girlfriend thought was insane but whatever, it worked. The corner of the blade thing is so real too, nobody tells you to keep it flat when you're first learning.

Heard Russian germanium transistors on eBay go cheap if you buy from Ukraine.

Wait, wouldn't an 8-way gate still need practice to hit clean inputs anyway?