Searching for a mascot

We need a replacement for our booth monkey mascot lost in NYC (see last posting). Applications are being accepted. Send photos of your poseable, bendable, mascot candidates to me at Andis expert@andisco.com. Better photos will include the mascot with an Andis clipper. I will pick a winner. You will be asked to send him to me for an Andis factory tour and training for the show. If we choose him/her for adoption you will get a FREE pass to visit him at the Andis booth at Premiere Orlando the last weekend in August. And FREE Andis gifts at the show. I will post some of the pictures here in the blog photo gallery.

Losing the booth monkey

We lost the booth monkey. He never made the trip home from IBS NY. I had found him in a geocache along the Des Plaines River trail just behind the Rosemont O’Hare convention center during the Midwest Beauty show. He was (is) a little rubber bendable, poseable monkey. We attached him to the rigging of the Andis booth for the duration of the Chicago show. We had a great show. We adopted him and brought him to New York. We lost him during teardown following the show. We will need a new mascot before it is time for the Premiere show in Orlando.

Buyers and Sellers III

So I went to get my weekly haircut. The waiting chairs were full and one of the barbers was out sick. I told Roy, my barber that I would be back later in the day. As I hit the door he said “I’ve got tools if you want to cut a few”. I declined and made my way to the car. As I got into the car my wife said “Why don’t you cut a few?”. “You’re kidding?” I said. She would read her book in a waiting chair while I did a few cuts. I walked back in and asked Roy “Which chair?”. Roy pointed to the last chair and said “Have at it”

I had a ball. I cleared the entire waiting room in about 30 minutes. I have not had that much fun cutting hair in a long time. One guy tipped me $5! Wow! A $5 tip. I forgot how cool it is for people to tell you how great you are and hand you money! I love cutting hair! This was the highlight of my month!

Back to school

My kids have been out of school just a week or so. Today is the first day of summer. I am shooting a back-to-school technical for a magazine today. Go figure. Happy Halloween and Thanksgiving too (it is on Thursday this year).

Buyers and Sellers II

I get my haircut every Thursday. Yes I have a bit of an obsession. I used to make fun of my dad. He got his haircut every 2 weeks on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 P.M. He did this for 40 years. Like father, like son. He never looked like he needed a haircut. He never looked like he had gotten a haircut. It was and remains the ultimate demonstration of barbering as grooming…the regular, ritual, maintenance of a proper image. One day I woke up and I had become my dad…Not a bad thing.

Buyers and Sellers I

Do you sell clipper cutting? Do you want to sell MORE clipper cutting? Do you buy clipper cutting? Do you wear a clipper cut?..UH-OH…I feel a rant coming on…I have said it many times, live on stage…If you want to be a seller…you gotta be a buyer…A serious clipper cutter cannot build a works class clipper cutting clientele wearing a pony tail. In the words of famous Phillie’s pitcher Tug McGraw…”You gotta believe”. Wear your colors on your sleve…er…your head…Get a clipper cut!

Spare parts

I get emails all the time from haircutters who own and use very old Andis tools. They brag about how good the tools still are. Occasionally they are looking for a spare part. Andis does not have parts for many of the very oldest of out tools, many of which are still going strong. I always refer them to eBay. Have a look over there. You will see Andis tools from as far back as the 1930’s available for sale and good as new. Pick up an old one to use and a few extras for spares.