Trimming TOOLS

[Schubert]

Hi
My standard is now nearing 7 months, has a beautiful wire coat and the hair length is 4+ cm.
I can strip out the soft undercoat, I know how to do eyebrows and tidy up ears. However, the wire coat can be stripped or rolled, but the hair length is increasing. What do I do? What tool and process is required to control the length of the wire coat.
cheers
Astrid

[Dawnspell]

The wire is going to be blown (meaning its nearing the end of its growth cycle) so will pull out really easy. It will be tricky to get a nice even rolled coat at this point but the alternative would be stripping to bald, so rolling hes probably going to look a bit scruffy before looking good with his coat being so long. You want to start pulling some coat from all over on a weekly basis so that the wire starts growing back in at different stages so eventually it becomes shorter. You then control the length by how often and how much you pull at a time. In winter I leave Jaspers coat longer so only strip once a month, but in the summer I strip every week to keep it short.

I use a Hauptner blue course stripping knife available on amazon and Rainbow course knife from Groomerdk for stripping.

There are lots of posts on the forum from people starting the stripping journey on puppies etc so have a look through for more info.
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[Schubert]

Awesome! That answers my question. Yes the hair gets out with ease. Spring is already hot and I will keep doing what I do!
Thankyou - will compare my tools