Best clippers for show grooming ..??

I'll vote for the Wahl adjustable too but I prefer a cord model. I have a small one that usually is only sold in horse catalogs--they use them for shaving the face and ears. I've been using the same one for close to 15 years now but I'm generally only grooming one dog or at most two for show.

The vet clinic where I work has Andis, Oster and Laube. Most of them are cordless and capable of doing a fast recharge and none are adjustable--all have quick change blades.

The old Andis are the favored ones. But we got a couple of new ones which had a light--everyone quickly learned to hate them since the light feature obscured the view of the cutting field. We sent them back and made Andis send the non-lighted ones which were no longer in the catalog but were still being made. The Laube's are OK and so are the Osters but the one everyone gets out when they get a big dog who needs a lot of coat clipped down for surgery or a cat who can't be shaved without being knocked out (mostly pets in for lion cuts because they are all solid matts) is the old corded Oster. It's still the work horse.

I think that the next time we order clippers it'll be Wahl since our main surgical tech was watching me show trim one of my Dobes (so that I could use the lift table instead of sitting on the floor at home) and was really impressed at how quiet they were. She borrowed mine to shave the throat and head of a small hairy dog who was freaking out about the clipper noise and said we really needed a pair of those.

The blades for all of those (Andis, Oster, Laube and Wahl) in the large sized clippers are entirely interchangeable. The head tech says she doesn't see a lot of difference in the blades except that the ceramic ones seem to hold an edge marginally longer that the standard blade--any variety.