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Originally Posted by tlwidener

Could you elaborate on your thinning method? Maybe I'm not thinning it enough.

My bands always lay flat and nice. His hair only sticks up when it's not banded, which is most of the time.

Alright this is always hard to explain, I need to stop being lazy and just take pictures to show.

Start like you are going to band the mane, I usually take a 3 inch section.

Then split this 3 inch section down the center of the mane (horizontally lengthwise with the mane) and take a small section out of the middle of your 3 inch section.

What you are doing is leaving a thick enough top layer, and thick enough bottom layer, that when you thin out the middle, that it will cover the thinned out section and will lay flat -along with not giving you too much hassle in regards to thickness.

This always works great for thinning my gelding's mane out (my old trainer insisted on pulling, and I cannot pull his mane, even gradually without him getting shy about me banding his mane.)

My bands are roughly 1/2inch in width, and he has a rather thick mane.

If this isn't clear enough let me know, and I will try and explain it better.