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Japanese hair shears for considered cutting choices

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Feather Razors and Styling Blades

Brand origin: Japan

Match Feather holders to their separate Styling, Custom, Nape, Plier or Artist Club blade systems, then compare guard construction and local pack totals.

Feather is a blade-led range. The holder stays in your kit while the working blade is replaced. Begin with the model on that holder: it tells you which refill family to investigate before choosing a colour, guard layout or larger pack.

Haircutting and shaving tools appear in this range. A shared Feather name, folding joint or blade quantity does not make their replacement formats interchangeable. The compatibility map is the starting point when you already own a holder.

Start with the handle

The Standard Styling holder in Black is 186 mm overall. The Short holder in Silver is 158 mm. Both use the Styling refill family, so the retained tool’s overall shape is a useful first comparison. A shorter body does not establish the best fit for every person.

Standard has seven local colours; Short has four. Choose the actual menu option. The Standard commercial SRS prefix is a local SKU convention, rather than Feather’s Short model name.

Similar-looking holders can require different blades

HolderConstruction or purposeReplacement family to identify
Standard and Short StylingHaircutting holders for refills with integrated comb guardsStandard, Texturising or WG Styling format
Custom CU-RFolding haircutting holder with detachable comb guardCSN-10 Cut Special or CS-12 Cut Stainless
Plier PLR-RSeparate folding haircutting formatPLI-20, without an integrated guard
Nape NR-KDedicated neck-area shaving holderNP-10
Artist Club SS foldingProfessional shaving holder with engineering-resin handleArtist Club Professional blades, including PB-20 and PG-15

Feather’s Styling reference separates the haircutting and Nape systems. Its Professional reference names the Artist Club family. Custom’s maker refill codes above identify that system; ask about the required format rather than choosing a common Styling pack for CU-R.

Read the guard as part of the construction

On a Styling refill, the comb guard is integrated with the blade. Custom instead has a detachable holder-mounted comb guard. Plier’s working refill has no integrated guard; PG-15 uses its own semicircular guard in the Professional family. Those features describe different constructions.

The blade-and-guard guide separates holder, replaceable blade, working guard and storage protection. It also explains why a guard term does not supply a haircut result or a replacement method. Keep each tool’s supplied instructions and your workplace procedure with the actual holder.

Check the blade pack

After compatibility and type, read the selected total. The Standard ten-pack and Regular EX fifty-blade carton are Styling-family supply choices. They should not be described as identical delivered blade geometry merely because both fit that family.

In Professional blades, PB20 selects twenty and PG15 selects fifteen. The pack menus also offer larger totals. Our refill-pack guide keeps maker reference, local SKU, type and quantity together.

Read current contents and price on the selected listing. Browse the Feather collection with the holder and refill names in hand, and use the maker’s loading, cleaning and disposal instructions for that system.