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The Bowen technique

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In the 1940s and 1950s Godfrey and Ivan Bowen developed a technique for shearing, using easy rhythmical sweeps of the shearing handpiece. Watch Godfrey demonstrate the technique.

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Reference: Shearing Technique. National Film Unit, 1957

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Des Williams, Shearing – From blades to shearing machines, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/18252/the-bowen-technique (accessed 17 June 2026).

Story by Des Williams, published 1 March 2009.