How to quick clip an airedale?

My father is hounding me to give his airedale a hair cut!!!! I don't even know how...he has the expensive clippers etc., is there an easy fast way someone could expain to me? to just remove the hair and give her some shape?

How to quick clip an airedale?

Ah yes, we had airedales for years growing up, and I had to figure out on my own how to clip them. Start by looking at lots and lots of pictures of coiffed Airedales. This is the only way to really understand the job at hand, as Airedales have "furnishings" that need to be carefully preserved. In a nutshell, the legs (including the light colored haunches) are kept bushy, the beard is kept full and eyebrows are left. The chest underneath is also left longer to give a nice line. To start, the back, neck, and tail are clipped to an inch or so (your prefference...start longer and work shorter until you like the length). When you clip the tail, you can clip and shape around her backside to ease the length into the longer length on the legs. Next, depending on how long you want to leave the furnishings, you can do one of two things. The right way is to trim the legs with scissors, easing the lines of the light, long leg fur into the dark coat on the back so your dog doesn't look like she's wearing a tutu. Neatly trim the feet as well, including between the pads if neccesary. The quick option is to use the longest comb you have on your clipper and just buzz the legs down, just as long as the fur is kept noticably longer than that on the back. You will still need to neaten with scissors. Next you trim just her her belly very short, with special care around her "special parts". Switch back to scissors and trim the bottom of the fur hanging down under her from her chest. You'll want to leave it a couple inches long, and again ease the length into the length of the shorter fur on her sides. Now the head. I usually would just use the clipper up the neck to the top of the head, do the ears and cheeks, then stop. From there on in I'd use scissors to trim around the eyes and the side of the face, leaving the nice bushy beard and eyebrows. Hope this helps! Don't worry if it takes a few tries before dog looks professionally groomed...it will take a bit of practice. Once you get a good shape going, it will be much easier to touch up her coat periodically than to let her grow back out and look like a wookie again before you dive back in.

How to quick clip an airedale?

take a dog grooming course at the community college, even prisoners do it. or better yet, go to a trained groomer.

How to quick clip an airedale?

DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!

Airedales are supposed to HAND-STRIPPED!!!!

Clippering *RUINS* the coat!!!