Spec said:
Your hair looks so awesome in the after pics.
Your before pictures do show some thinning, not as badly as mine though which makes me mad. I'm buzzing my hair soon.
By a "1" guard, how many inches is that? 0.25?
a #1 guard is typically .125 inches, or, put another way, 1/8th of an inch. That's how short i buzzed my hair to yesterday.
keep in mind, speculum, that since you are NW3 or close, with a buzz you won't be able to hide the hairline, and people will look at your front and see that tuft of hair in the middle of your hairline coming down off the temples. if you are okay with that fine, awesome. but just be aware before you buzz that it might make it more obvious to people that you are balding because you won't be able to comb forward anymore.