“notching” is a lesser known terminology in reference to a “notched shear” or chunking shear(can be point cut as well with regular shears). That is a wider tooth shear than the thinning/ blending shear. These types of notched shears of all tooth width are more recently referred to as “texture shears”. A straight razor with a guard on it can produce the same type of texturing as a wide notched shear. Below is the typical notched/chunking shear…..