‘blades’. Maybe once in a great while one will see the light of day and beput on a clipper… but mostly it’s the #10 blade and a SS comb.
One thing with the SS combs: you can NOT use a #40 blade under the SS combs. The reason is simple: the cutter of the #40 blade is set too far forward and will snag teeth on the SS combs. You can kiss your #40 blade good by if that happens. So besides changing to the SS combs, you will have to change out whatever blade you use (that is IF you are used to using a #40 blade with your snap on combs.) At first I was using a #30 under them, but my #10’s work just as well, and less changing blades on the clipper. Maybe I’ve just gotten lazy? Most of my dogs are fluffy, and with my clipper vac I can still get the same lengths pretty much the same as with a finish blade…so no use to use a “blade”. So yes, maybe I am just getting lazy!
SS combs are by far better IMO than the plastic, so much so that I’ve don’t really even use most of my