Good lord, they still make the Flowbee

mox

#1 – 4:21 PM June 28, 2009

"It sucks as it cuts."
"Well, it certainly does suck."

Leo

#2 – 5:11 PM June 28, 2009

"Ahhhh turn it off man turn it off!!! It's sucking my will to live!!!"

Leonard Low

#3 – 5:13 PM June 28, 2009

"Ahhhh turn it off man, turn it off! It's sucking my will to live!!!"

Mark

#4 – 5:39 PM June 28, 2009

Scoff if you will. That thing works.

Jay Guerette

#5 – 7:25 PM June 28, 2009

The Flowbee rocks. It works as advertised. You cannot put a price of the convenience of being able to trim you own hair; including the back; with absolutely NO mess. Amazingly quick and easy. Obviously, your hair must be simple, perhaps even utilitarian, in it's styling for this to work for you. Never having to schedule an appointment with some beauty-school graduate who thinks she knows what you need instead of listening to what you want? Priceless.

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 7:52 PM June 28, 2009

There's another vacuum clipper called RobotCut for sale also. I first heard of it when Alfred (the creator) would call up for web hosting issues; nice guy. The RoboCut website has some basic details about the escape kit he put in a beach ball to flee communist Romania in 1977.

There seems to be a some Edison/Tesla, Ford/Chevy style competition between the two.. with RoboCut claiming to be the prior invention, and Flowbee claiming Robocut to be untrustworthy and a poor design. I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like Alfred Natrasevschi has a patent granted in 1986.

Scott

#7 – 9:13 PM June 28, 2009

As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. Really that's all this is except that instead of sucking water, I'm sucking life. I've just sucked one year of your life away.

Philboyd Studge

#8 – 6:12 AM June 29, 2009

Bought Flowbee about 16 years ago. Haven't been to barber since. Haircut looks exactly like barber's did.

It cost me around $50 and has saved me just under $2000. That's better than a savings account paying 24% interest. Suck on that.

Mike Dedmon

#9 – 7:35 AM June 29, 2009

I've had one for 12 years now and it's the BEST 79.00 I ever spent. It takes me about 15 minutes to do a complete hair cut and no mess. It's saved me tons of money and gets me lots of kidding from friends, but you can't argue with success.

It's almost time for a new one. I have the original blue/green model. I want the new construction worker yellow/black. It will match all my power tools... :)

Jimmy

#10 – 8:08 AM June 29, 2009

Wow, I had no idea these actually work. My initial reaction to this device has pretty much been the same as commenter #1.

If I wasn't losing my hair I might give it a try. I have to agree with those that cut their own hair - I bought an Oster 76 years ago and you couldn't pay me to go into a salon now.

MitchSchaft

#11 – 10:13 AM June 29, 2009

I've had one for the past 4 years. This thing works!

Anonymous Anonymous

#12 – 10:40 AM June 29, 2009

I know of a businessman's barbershop that has the industrial version of these at each chair. I doubt if it's Flowbee brand because it looks like something Electrolux custom installed in the 60's with tubes running from each station across the ceiling to a central vacuum. Gilliam would love the place.

But the damn thing works. Any day of the week you can walk by there and see fashion-oblivious businessmen getting a super quick buzz cut, no need for shampoo.

therevengor

#13 – 12:24 PM June 29, 2009

Um, how comes we can't see the profiles for this weird, sudden, pro-flowbee crowd?

girlstyle

#14 – 1:57 PM June 29, 2009

My dad has been using one of these for 15 years and it works like a charm. Mom does try to hide it from him every so often, though.

therevengor

#15 – 4:05 PM June 29, 2009

Seriously? Everybody's first post _evar_ is to talk about how great the flowbee is?

hemidemisemiquaver

#16 – 9:27 PM June 29, 2009

Fuck yeah they still make the flowbee. I own a generic one and I use it all the time. And I'm not kidding.

It rocks; with an electric clippers you pretty much can't disguise that you've cut your own hair but this thing does a damn fine cut with a little practice. And it doesn't get hair everywhere. Sure it's nerdy, but who cares?

proto

#17 – 10:57 PM June 29, 2009

Yup, still made, and work fairly well-- but these days, RoboCut eats Flowbee's lunch!

dculberson

#18 – 9:10 AM June 30, 2009

Actually the profile links have been broken for a while on BBG... I just haven't gotten around to whining about it yet.

Anonymous Anonymous

#19 – 6:02 PM August 4, 2009

Will it cut as long as 2"? I might get one if it does.