With a powerful motor, great guide combs, a long cord, and terrific build quality, the Wahl Elite Pro Hair Clipper Kit will satisfy any one looking for a powerful adjustable hair clipper that could be used to create different hairstyles at home.
Best choice among the major manufacturers for achieving smooth professional hair cuts at home
- Comes with all the accessories you need for home use
- Powerful Motor & blades that can easily cut all hair types
- Low maintenance blades – Self-sharpening stainless steel blades
- Premium quality Secure-fit metal clip guide combs
- Easily achieve cutting lengths from 0.5mm up to 25 mm
- Great For fading and tapering work
- Reputable Brand
- Lifetime Warranty
Overview
Wahl Elite Pro Hair Clipper Review
The Wahl Elite pro hair clipper is a corded, adjustable home use hair clipper and it comes as part of a 21 piece hair cutting kit.
It is made of a rigid plastic casing with chrome colored lines in black/silver color giving it a elite premium feel to it.
The Kit comprises of the clipper plus a number of accessories to enable home users produce a professional hair cut at home.
The Wahl Elite pro hair clipper is produced by Wahl’s and marketed as a home use hair clipper.
Wahl is one of the top global hair clipper manufacturer brands and has a reputation for producing top quality hair clippers both for home and professional use.
This article is a review of the Wahl Elite Pro Hair clippers kit
Wahl Elite Pro High Performance Hair Clipper Review
The Wahl Elite Pro Hair Clipper review below compiled by BestHairClippers.info contains an overview of the good and not so good points about the Wahl Elite Pro Hair Clipper together with a summary of the collection of reviews by current users of this particular type of hair clipper.
You will if you have been following our hair clippers reviews blog note that all our product reviews are quite detailed and cover all the important features and aspects of the product.
What Comes In The Box?
Things found in the box include:
- 1 x Wahl Elite Pro clipper
- 10 x Premiun Styling Combs
- 1 x Drawstring Pouch for Combs
- 1 x Premium Styling Shears
- 1 x Styling Shear Blade Cover
- 1 x Premium Styling Comb
- 1 x Blade Guard
- 1 x Blade Oil
- 1 x Cleaning Brush
- 1 x Cord Wrap
- 1 x Barbers Cape (28″ x 40″)
- 1 x plastic storage box
- 1 x English and Spanish instruction/styling guide
- 10 x Blade Guards
- No. 1/2 – 1/16″ (1.5mm)
- No. 1 – 1/8″ (3mm)
- No. 1 1/2 – 3/16″ (5mm)
- No. 2 – 1/4″ (6mm)
- No. 3 – 3/8″ (10mm)
- No. 4 – 1/2″ (13mm)
- No. 5 – 5/8″ (16mm)
- No. 6 – 3/4″ (19mm)
- No. 7 – 7/8″ (22mm)
- No. 8 – 1″ (25mm)
The kit is a 21-piece complete high performance hair cutting kit. It comes with everything you need to achieve a successful professional haircut at home plus a premium storage case to keep all your hair cutting kit together.
Watch the clip below to see the unboxing of the Wahl Elite Pro Hair clipper kit.
Unboxing The Wahl Elite Hair Clipper Pro Kit
Product Description
The Wahl Elite pro is a corded, adjustable home use hair clipper manufactured in Stirling, Illinois in the USA.
It is made of a rigid plastic casing with chrome colored lines in black/silver color giving it a elite premium feel to it.
It looks solid, well built like a professional hair clipper and comes with enough accessories to supplement it.
It is also heavy and sturdy compared to a lot of other home use hair clippers on the market
The Wahl Elite pro comes packaged as part of a 21 piece hair cutting kit targeted at home users who want to cut their own hair.
The kit among other things contains a complete set of Secure-Fit guide combs with stainless steel attachment clips for smooth and easy hair cutting.
The Wahl Elite pro hair clipper also comes with a storage box that looks good and study to help store and keep all the hair clipper kit together.
Features At A Glance
- Adjustable Blade Lever
- Self-sharpening stainless steel blades
- 8 foot long industrial grade cord
- Premium quality Secure-fit metal clip guide combs
- Comes with 0.5 and 1.5 clipper attachments
- 21 piece Accessory Kit
- Hanging Hook
- 5 year limited Warranty
Design Features
Below are some of the key features of the Wahl Elite Pro Hair Clipper.
Hair Clipper Type
The Wahl Elite pro hair clipper is a corded, mains operated electrical clipper.
The advantage of corded hair clippers over cordless ones is the fact that you do not have to worry about the usual problems associated with cordless clippers such as the hair clipper dying on you in the middle of a hair cutting session or having the problem of a weak or dead battery.
Corded operation allows for unlimited run-time and uncompromising hair clipping.
The Wahl Elite Pro hair clipper operates at peak performance on a continuous basis as it is connected to the mains electricity supply as opposed to if it was a cordless hair clipper where it starts to lose power as the battery drains down whilst using this corded clippers,
Motor Type & Size
The Wahl Elite pro hair clipper is fitted with a magnetic motor similar.
Hair clippers fitted with a magnetic hair clipper motor run faster than the clippers with a rotary motor type and usually have a single cutting head, which is adjustable for cutting a variety of hair lengths.
While the magnetic hair clipper motor does move the blades very fast, it does however provide less power than the two other clipper motor types and as a result don’t offer much torque for cutting through thick hair.
They are great for general hair cutting and fading work and they work well with medium hair textures
Hair clippers that are fitted with a magnetic hair clipper motor are usually pretty powerful and fast and the Wahl Elite Pro does not disappoint here. It is fast and able to cut through various types of dry hair with speed.
The manufacturer claims that the magnetic motor installed in this particular hair clipper is 15% more powerful than even the ones they use in their standard clippers that use a POWERDRIVE motor.
With more power comes more torque and an all-around more advanced cutting experience.
It is not quite clear what the size of the Magnetic motor or the rpm in the Wahl Elite pro is as the manufacturer seems to have conveniently left this information out in all their literature about the Clipper in question.
A lot of professional barbers are however convinced that the Wahl Elite pro uses the same magnetic motor that are often found on some professional hair clippers because of the performance of the Elite Pro.
The word by some of the professionals is that it is highly likely the Wahl v5000 magnetic motor model is fitted in the Wahl Elite pro instead of the v7000 or v9000 model which are in the top professional models such as in the Wahl Super Taper or the Wahl Seniors.
Whatever the case, our research revealed that a lot of users were very happy with the speed and power of the Wahl Elite pro hair clipper.
Hair Cut Length Settings
The Wahl Elite Pro is very versatile and can be used to achieve multiple cutting lengths and hair cut styles ranging from 0.5mm (1/32 of an inch) to 25mm (1 inch).
It is able to achieve various hair cut sizes with the aid of a thumb-adjustable blade lever together with the use of hair clipper guides.
The thumb-adjustable blade lever is not a common feature among home use hair clippers as they tend to be found on some of the expensive professional hair clippers like the Andis Masters.
Adjustable blade levers enables you to achieve various cutting length sizes without the need to stop to change the hair clipper blade or use any of the attachment combs.
The advantage of using a adjustable blade lever system rather than a detachable system means that you do not have to stop to change blades which is time saving.
You also get to save on the cost of haircuts as you do not have to buy different hair cut type blades.
The adjustable blade lever also enables you to do various styles and things like fading, tapering, easy blending and to help you get the right length for tidying up necklines and edging.
This is great if you are interested in creating various hair cut styles at home….
Although the Wahl Elite Pro comes with an adjustable lever… the lever is not quite on par with those used on the professional clippers.
The adjustable lever on the Wahl Elite Pro is not notched or able to be locked into position ( like that of the Andis Master), which makes it slightly difficult to remember the exact position you have the blade at, when cutting hair.
There is also not a lot of throw in the adjustable blade Lever on the Wahl Elite Pro hair clipper compared to some of the professional and the lever is plastic that doesn’t feel as durable as the rest of the unit.
It however is not a deal broker as you are still able to achieve some good fades using the adjustable blade lever.
Blades Type & Sizes
The Wahl Elite Pro hair clippers comes fitted with ultra-sharp self sharpening precision ground blades which is a lot better that the ones that come on their standard home user hair clipers.
Self-sharpening precision ground blades by Wahl are designed for smooth cutting through all types of hair. They are pretty sharp and tend to make light work of the thickest or toughest of hair; delivering effortless cutting performance use after use.
The Self-sharpening precision blades on the Wahl cuts hair 40% faster than their standard Wahl precision blades and are made from stainless steel material which protects the blades from rusting.
can cut hair 40% faster than standard Wahl Precision Blades
The fact that they are self-sharpening means that you don’t need to be that concerned with the maintenance of the blades. All you need to do is regularly oil them.
The Wahl Elite Pro lacks a T-blade attachment or companion trimmer, which allows for close cutting around the ear, in the back, and around facial hair without accidentally nicking an ear or creating a bald patch.
The absence of one may be problematic for buyers who plan to cut their children’s hair, as full-size clippers have a long blade that’s tricky to maneuver around tiny, tender ears. For us, their absence was minor.
Included in the kit is a blade guard to help protect the blades on the clipper
Cord Type & Length
The Wahl Elite Pro comes already fitted with an 8 feet long industrial heavy duty power cord.
Unlike most home use hair clippers that are typically fitted with a cheap speaker-wire cord (e.g the Andis Headliner and Wahl Chrome Pro) that tends to tangle together over time and are easily damaged, The Wahl Elite Pro comes already fitted with a proper industrial cord.
The cord also comes fitted with a velcro wrap attached near the end of the plug to enable you easily gather the cord and to make it easier for storage purposes.
The length of the cord means you will be able to easily maneuver the clipper around the person you are giving a haircut… It also means you do not have to sit so close to the power socket
Weight & Dimension
The Wahl Elite Pro hair clipper weights 1.27 pounds; which is slightly more than the typical Wahl home hair clippers tend to weigh.
Although on the heavy side, the Wahl Elite Pro hair clipper is small enough to comfortably fit into the palm of your hand.
The Wahl Elite Pro also comes with a hard plastic case which is compact enough to fit in a drawer or on a shelf and has a quality clasp and rigid hinges that allow the case to be sealed correctly.
Electrical Requirement
The Wahl Elite Pro Hair Clipper is an American made product targeted at the local market and as such needs a 120 volt 60HZ electrical socket to operate effectively. It also comes with a 2 pronged plug
The downside with just having a 120 volt is that you will not be able to use this clipper outside the USA as the clipper is not dual voltage or got a worldwide voltage use. (for example the UK uses a voltage of 240v 50Hz)
Some of the new hair clippers on the market are now produced as usable with any worldwide voltage … which is an added benefit … enabling you to take it along with you on holidays to any part of the world.
If you are very much interested in purchasing this hair clipper to use outside of the USA in another country, especially those countries with a 220/240 voltage system,
you are most likely going to need a step down transformer together with a plug that will fit the electrical sockets in your country… which of course is an extra expense.
Accessories
Almost all clippers come with an excessive amount of throwaway accessories — cheap scissors, hair clips, garbage-bag-quality capes—which seem great until you have to tuck them in a drawer or root through them to find what you want.
The Wahl Elite Pro Clipper Kit has a useful assortment of combs and accessories to make the hair cutting process at home a success.
The kit is a 21-piece complete high performance hair cutting kit. It comes with everything you need to achieve a successful professional haircut at home plus a premium storage case to keep all your hair cutting kit together.
Guide Combs
The Wahl Elite Pro High Performance Haircut Kit comes with a useful assortment of 10 guide combs that are clearly labeled and easier to sort than every other competing model; most had combs with impossible-to-read raised black plastic numbers printed on black plastic.
Below are the sizes of the guide combs that come in the kit
- No. 1/2 – 1/16″ (1.5mm)
- No. 1 – 1/8″ (3mm)
- No. 1 1/2 – 3/16″ (5mm)
- No. 2 – 1/4″ (6mm)
- No. 3 – 3/8″ (10mm)
- No. 4 – 1/2″ (13mm)
- No. 5 – 5/8″ (16mm)
- No. 6 – 3/4″ (19mm)
- No. 7 – 7/8″ (22mm)
- No. 8 – 1″ (25mm)
The guide combs that come in this pack are of real good quality and very different from the standard flimsy plastic combs that usually accompanying most home use hair clippers.
The Secure-Fit premium guide combs have been made with premium engineering grade material making them 70 per cent stronger (versus standard Wahl guide combs).
This guide combs have stainless steel clips at the back to attach to the blade instead of plastic clips.
These “pro” looking guide combs normally retail in a set of 8 (up to 1-inch hair length) for nearly $30.(Click to see pack)
With this product also, you get 2 extra guides that don’t come in the pro set (a #1/2 guide and a #1 1/2 guide, which will help you even create shorter haircuts).
When you factor in the cost of the 2 extra guides and it would cost nearly $40 to buy all these premium professional guide combs that come with this hair clipper kit alone.
Even if everything else in this kit is of a cheap nature, the inclusion of these premium professional metal-clip guide combs makes this set an exceptional value.
The Secure-Fit stainless steel attachment clip makes it much easier to securely fasten the guide comb to the blade for smooth and easy clipping and to give the confidence that they won’t slide off while you are using them.
The name plate with large, easy-to-see comb sizes makes it also easy for you to see which comb you are using.
On a minor point, the Wahl Elite Pro kit does not come with any taper guide combs (left and/or right-ear), which are usually included with other home hair cutting kits to help users simultaneously trim and blend around the ears…. all with the aim of making it easier for beginners.
The fact that the kit does not come with tapered guide combs is not a deal breaker as you can achieve good quality cuts just by using the regular straight combs that are included in the kit.
The easiest thing you could do is to just buy the tapers separately, they’re quite cheap. Or if you have ones left over from your previous clipper set, simply use them.
Storage
The Wahl Elite pro hair clipper kit also comes with a solid high quality premium case, which is compact enough to fit in a drawer or on a shelf.
Unlike some home hair clipper kits that are supplied with small pouches or just boxes, the case that comes with the Wahl Elite Pro is made of a good quality plastic material and has a quality clasp and rigid hinges that allow the case to be sealed correctly.
The case apart from looking good is also well laid out in a way that it’s easy to fit everything in the kit back into the case (it’s not like it has a specific place and won’t close if it’s not in that place!).
Additional Accessories
In additions to the premium guide comb and storage case that come in the Wahl Elite Pro hair clipper kit are a range of items to help you achieve that professional cut at home and also to help maintain your hair clipper in peak performance.
The items are
Blade Oil – You get a small bottle of blade oil for the clipper – The oil is essential to keep the clipper in top shape. You will need to apply a few drops of the oil when you clean the unit and/or before use… the clipper oil will last you for some time before you need to replace the oil.
Hair Clipper Brush – You also get a hair clipper brush to help you remove hair from the clipper and for cleaning the hair clipper.
Drawstring Pouch for Combs – – Included in the kit is an additional storage pouch to help keep all your clipper guides combs together and well protected. Not a common feature with professional or home clippers. It appears Wahl was bent on really creating a premium product here.
Premium Styling Shears & Comb- Included also is a premium styling scissors with its own cover and a comb. This are very useful additions to the kit.
Barbers Cape – Included in the kit is also a barbers cape measuring (28″ x 40″) to help protect your clothes when cutting hair
Instruction Manual – You also have included a set of instructions (English and Spanish instruction/styling guide) to help you make better use of the device together with a blade guard to help protect the teeth of the hair clipers.
The inclusion of all these items in the kit means you save a great deal of money as you do not have to spend additional money obtaining them… You do all have all you need to give a decent hair cut at home.
Performance Features
With the Elite Pro, though, the brand has taken things further. This model is sturdier, its more powerful output is quite tangible, and there really is an “elite”, premium feeling to it. The hard plastic body with chrome-colored lines sure helps with that.
The Wahl Elite Pro motor ie reported as outperforming other Wahl models easily. While the Chrome Pro will encounter some issues with thicker hair types and bulkier volumes, the Elite Pro will plow through them.
This clipper is very powerful, durable and of very high quality. It is convenient for all types of hairs and features secure fit stainless steel clip guide combs which will ensure that you have an easy time while cutting hair. This also ensures that the end result is a super smooth haircut. It is also very easy to use and clean.
Cutting hair is quick and easy with the Wahl Elite Pro™ hair-clipper kit. It’s sharp steel blades easily slices through fine, thick, smooth, and coarse hair without slowing down or cloggingit.
The big difference between the Wahl Elite Pro hair clipper and the other Wahl Clippers is that the teeth of the blade attachments are rounded at the end of them so they don’t stab you when you use them.
Build Quality
The Wahl Elite Pro Clipper looks and feel very professional even though it is a home use hair clipper.
It is a sturdy hand hair clipper with a hard plastic body with chrome-colored lines.
The build quality of the Wahl Elite Pro is a noticeable step above the lower-tier priced models that you might buy at Walmart or the drugstore.
The upper part of the housing isn’t a hollow-feeling tube like the Chrome Pro; the Wahl Elite Pro hair clipper is made of a more rigid plastic with texture for a secure grip.
On one side of the clipper is a taper lever which is used to blend and taper hair.
The clippers are heavy and they feel very professional in quality, even though they’re consumer-grade.
Noise Level
The Wahl Elite pro hair clipper has a slightly loud magnetic motor, but the noise is not unbearable.
When hair clippers are manufactured they are adjusted for peak efficiency before they leave the factory. However if the voltage in your home is low, you may need to readjust the clipper if it is making too much noise or vibrating excessively.
On this particular model, there is a power screw on the side of the clipper that you can use to adjust the clipper. No need for you to have to open the clipper for the adjustment as in some hair clippers… All you need to do is tweak the screw to adjust the settings.
Ease of Use
The Wahl Elite Pro High Performance Haircut Kit is quite easy to use. Although it is a bit of the heavy side, Its sharp steel blades makes it much easier to cut through fine, thick, smooth, and coarse hair without slowing down or clogging, and it isn’t annoyingly loud.
The quality premium guide combs really help the cutting experience as they enable you easily achieve more precise haircuts with less mess.
The taper lever on the side of the clipper although not notched tends to stay in position and not slip from vibration, of the clipper which a lot of clipper users at one time or another experienced from other clippers used in the past.
You can tell from the weight of the actual clippers that the Wahl Elite pro clipper is a good quality hair clipper that it is built to last.
The Wahl Elite Pro is at the upper limit of what’s comfortable to hold, but not overly heavy, and it does not vibrate uncomfortably.
The Clipper feels nice in your hand and is very comfortable to clip with
It’s a bit heavier than other clippers for home use, but it feels very professional. Some of the weight has to do with the more powerful motor of this model. The trade-off is definitely worth it.
Cleaning & Maintenance
As long as you brush out the blade and oil it after every use before letting it sit, The Wahl Elite Pro should honestly last a lifetime for home use.
All it takes is a couple of drops of oil whilst the clipper is on to let it work through the cutting blade.
Professional hair clippers like the Wahl Seniors can last decades of use at 20 hair cuts per day, and the Wahl Elite Pro clipper aren’t that drastic of a step down in build quality.
User Ratings
The user reviews for the Wahl Elite pro hair clipper are quite positive with a lot of home users giving it a 4 star and above rating.
The main concerns raised about the clipper were to do with the lack of left and right hair clipper taper guards, which as explained earlier in the review can be resolved by buying the tapers separately from somewhere like ebay, they’re quite cheap. Or if you have ones left over from your previous clipper set, simply use them.
The other concern highlighted by a lot of users is the fact that the clipper is not dual voltage or got a worldwide voltage use and people buying to use in countries apart from the USA do have to incur an additional expense to buy a step down transformer and in some cases a 3 point plug as the clipper comes with a standard US 2 point plug.
Some of the quotes so far are as follows:
Warranty, Price & Value For Money
The Wahl Elite pro retails for anything between $50 to around $80…. which at first glance seems expensive…. however when you look at what you are getting again…. you will see that you are in the true sense getting a bargain if you can get this clipper at the lower end of the price range.
The clipper guards on this particular hair clipper are worth their weight in gold. The guides have stainless steel clips to attach to the blade instead of plastic clips usually associated with the cheap home hair clippers.
These “pro” clipper guides alone sell in a set of 8 (up to 1-inch hair length) for nearly $30 on the open market. However not only do you get all these clipper guards in the kit , you also get 2 extra hair clipper guides that don’t come in the pro set (a #1/2 guide and a #1 1/2 guide, which are both short).
Factor in the cost of the 2 extra guides and it would cost nearly $40 to buy all these guides alone. Even if the cost of the hair clipper is identical to that of a cheaper hair clipper set; the inclusion of these metal-clip guides makes the cost of the whole Wahl Elite Clipper kit set an exceptional value.
The clipper kit also comes with a limited lifetime warranty on parts and a 5-year warranty on the motor.
Final Thoughts
Out of all the Wahl home kits, the Wahl Elite Pro high performance haircut kit #79602 is your best choice for an awesome haircut.
It cuts very well, and the variety of combs you receive makes the job easy for anyone, even if you have little or no experience.
The “Wahl Elite Pro Hair Clipper” kit comes with everything you would need. It is a fantastic home hair cutting kit, and you won’t find a better clipper kit at this price.
- Very powerful for a home clipper.
- Quality metal guards instead of plastic
- Full 21 piece home haircutting kit
- Reputable Brand
- Competitively Priced
- No right & left ear tapers
- A bit on the heavy side
- Corded Clipper… some some restricted mobility issue
- Not dual voltage… so step up transformer will be needed if purchased for use outside the USA
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| Current Price | $43.88 | January 28, 2025 |
| Highest Price | $43.88 | January 21, 2019 |
| Lowest Price | $43.88 | January 21, 2019 |
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