Hey everyone, how's it going? Welcome back eh, this is, ahhh, enough
of that. So, haven't done a little video in a while this might be a little bit
rusty. Eh, but that doesn't mean that we haven't been doing anything. If you've
been keeping up with us during lockdown. You know that during this time we have
started the 'Zero Gapped' podcast. We actually started it back in January,
but since lockdowns kicked in we've really taken up a notch. We've had a lot
of really cool guests on. I want to thank everybody who's been listening, so
far. You can find the podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google everywhere you get podcasts.
You can go check that out, we'd really appreciate it. Everybody's that's been listening
so far. It's been pretty successful and we just want to thank you for that. Now
we've also used lockdown as an opportunity to also start Rookie Barber
School. This is something we've been looking at for a while. Basically, we've
created rookiebarberschool.com as a free online resource. We've collected
together all of our educational videos and you can find them in one place, for
free, to support your education during this time and beyond. All the videos are
divided into fading, scissor work, clipper work and hair cut tutorials all in one
place, easy to find. So, if that sounds useful and you want to check it out go
to rookiebarberschool.com Something else we can also get at rookie barber
school is the chance to sign up to our patreon, here at Rum Barber, so if you
want to help support us, while at the same time getting a lot of really great
features on the patreon, that would be a really good way to do it. There's two
tiers of membership, with a bunch of features on there including haircut
coaching the haircut feedback. It's a really great community that we've built
there so far, we've really enjoyed helping everybody out, talking to
everybody, there's a really nice atmosphere in there. So I just want to
thank these guys, for coming on board so far and showing
their support. We honestly couldn't do without people watching. Now, Rookie
Barber School, is always going to be free that will always be a free resource. This
is just an additional extra, that if you want to take that even further you've
got the opportunity there, to not only get more for yourself but to help
support us as well. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Veedels
Barber, in the Rum Barber patreon, for winning this month's and members only
give away. These Gamma Plus absolute hitters will be sent out to you
shortly, thanks very much man. Now, one of the more frustrating things about lock
down, apart from everything about lock down, has been, we've been getting
sent a lot of stuff to review and we can't review it. Because, we're not
working, we haven't been at work since March. We're probably not going to be back at
work for another month now, so at least July. And so, we're getting sent a lot of
stuff to review like the Gama IQ dryer. Now, we've seen a lot about this online,
heard a lot of good stuff about it. This is probably the thing I'm looking
forward to reviewing the most. I can't wait to get started on this. Not only
looking forward to the review but since we showed this up on our Instagram.
Everybody's been asking us to do a comparison video with the Dyson
supersonic hairdryer, which we will do as soon as, A we're back working. B I've had
a chance to actually use this thing. And C got my hands on a Dyson, because
they're sold out and I'm on the waiting list, and I've heard nothing back since
then. So, we will definitely get the review out for this first and that Dyson
review as soon as we get our hands on a Dyson,
we'll get that review out. Another thing we've been asked about a lot over
lockdown is maybe doing some blow-dry tutorials. So, once we're back at work we
will definitely be getting some blow-drying tutorials out there done, with both the
Gama and the Dyson. Now, also if you've been listening to our podcast you've
heard on our 'Talking Tools' episode with Allan Beak.
We were talking about how we were really looking forward to maybe getting a
single foil shaver from someone at some point. And he pointed us in the direction
of the Wahl travel shaver, cordless and rechargeable single foil shaver. So, once
we're back at work I will definitely be getting a shot of this. So, thank you so much
to Allan Beak, for pointing us in the right direction on this one. So, something else
has come in while we've been off is the Gamma Absolute Alpha clipper. I don't
think these are actually out yet they'll be out soon. And obviously without being
able to do any hair right now, it's really hard to do a review. But, we will
be doing a first impressions video of this, and probably everything else that
we've received over the time of lockdown. We'll get some first impressions done to
give you guys an idea of what it's all about, before we can actually get any
reviews done. Something else we had sent to us that we're going to have a look
at just now, is the Wahl Cordless Magic Clip metal edition. Now, these have been
out in the US for a little bit, don't know exactly how long, but they've been
out for a little bit over there, just come out over here. And again, not cutting
any hair just now, so I can't really review them but, we can talk a little bit about
our first impressions, so we'll do that right now. So, first impressions with
these is, it's significantly heavier than a regular Magic Clip. Bring that out. It's
actually nearly four ounces heavier than the original Magic Clip here. It doesn't
have the same little thumb indentation as there, so it's not quite as a
ergonomic feeling in the hand. They both have the same crunch blade on them,
so that's a plus point I guess. Em, it's the same clipper. It's it's more or less
the same clipper really except, you've got it in a much heavier housing. And,
it's also nearly £40 more expensive, than an original Magic Clip.
The original Magic Clip, comes in around £117. This is coming in, the all
metal Magic Clip, is coming in at £155. That, that's nearly £40
more expensive. And I don't necessarily know what you're getting for that extra
£40 apart from the all metal housing. Because, we spoken to Wahl, and
it has the same 90 minute runtime, it has the same motor inside. There's been no
upgrade to the machinery. If you thought that the Magic Clip before,
struggled with bulk removal. Then, this is still going to struggle with bulk removal,
it's just going to be heavier and struggle with bulk removal as it were.
Now, one of the things people like so much about the Magic Clip, is how light
it is, and how manoeuvrable is. And, it has the crunch blade, so it's got that
for it. But are you in bringing out a heavier all metal casing, are you just
negating what people are actually like about your most successful clipper. I
mean if you were going to rebrand one of their less popular models like this, I
could certainly understand that. But you're rebranding your most successful
thing and taking away some of the things that make it really successful, it just
doesn't feel like, it makes it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Em, and
also as well, it's slightly more expensive than a cordless Senior, right.
But the only difference between this and the cordless Senior is the blade on
there, so obviously the cordless Senior is more powerful. Em so, if you
like this blade that much you can buy a Wahl Magic Clip blade for like less than
20 bucks on Amazon, and stick it on our cordless Senior and you'd have
effectively the same machine. I mean it looks good, don't we wrong it looks good
and I haven't had a chance to actually use it yet so, it might work perfectly
fine as a Magic Clip, but I just. For all that extra money and for the fact that
with Magic Clips you can buy certain sets of them and they come with a full
range of premium guards. This came with three premium guards, the half, one, and
one and a half, which is good, but again you can get a set but regular Magic
Clips, less expensive than this, and get more
for it, and get the things that people like the Magic Clip for. I'm just, it's
confusing. So, if any of you have used this, please feel free to get in the
comments below and tell me more about it. Tell me if there's anything I've missed
out. I'm happy to take on other information on it and find out what
people who've actually used it think about it because like I said I
haven't used it myself. It's probably the first thing I'm going to start getting
stuck into once I actually get back to cutting hair, is using this to see if I
can see a difference, and to see. I happily admit, if I really like it. If I really
like it, if I use it and I'm like you know what guys,
I was a bit wrong, I really like this clipper, I will happily say so. But just
right now, I don't think I'll hate it, I'll just think I'll find that a bit
pointless. And just one little extra point when we got ours one thing I
noticed that our blade was actually a little squint, which was fine you kind of
assume things get knocked around sometimes and not everything can come
out completely perfect. But I've also had a message from two or three other people,
saying that when they got theirs their blade of the squint so, if you're going to
get these just keep an eye on that, make sure they're coming out of the box nice
and straight. One more thing I want to talk about before I go is the Buzz
network. Now, the Buzz network is an app that has launched recently worldwide, for
Barbers by Barbers. It's our own social media basically, because other social
medias they worked well for us but they weren't made for us. And so, this is
something that's made specifically for Barbers. Your clients can go on there as
well. You can connect with other Barbers, follow them. You can even set yourself up
out there, put yourself out there to get more work out of being on this network
as well. And there's going to be so much more stuff added to it as it comes along.
I've recently joined up, Joseph Goss, Joseph_RumBarber, and you can
find me on there. I'm really enjoying playing around with it, at the moment.
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes in the future so, I just think it's
something to be really cool to get involved with. So, you can find that now
at all the app stores that everybody uses. You can download it today
and get started. So, I just want to thank you all very much for watching this
video. Thank you for your patience in waiting
for this video. It's been a little bit rusty, not going to lie. Em, hopefully get a
lot more of these done soon. Hopefully, get back in the shop working soon. Get
back to just doing the reviews, doing the tutorials, doing the stuff that everybody
loves, that we put out and that we love putting out for you. So, thank you so much
for the support. Don't forget about the Zero Gapped podcast or the patreon as well.
And you can find that at rookiebarberschool.com
Thank you so much guys, and we'll speak to you next time.