BLADE SET AND HAIR CUTTING APPLIANCE

The present invention relates to a hair cutting appliance (10), a blade set (20) for a hair cutting appliance (10), and to a stationary blade (22) for said blade set (20), said blade comprising a first wall portion (44) and a second wall portion (46), each wall portion defining a first surface (80, 82, 84), a second surface (86, 88, 90), and at least one toothed leading edge (32, 34) comprising a plurality of mutually spaced apart projections (36) provided with respective tips (38), wherein the first surfaces (80, 82) of the first wall portion (44) and the second wall portion (46) face each other, at least at their leading edges (32, 34), wherein facing projections (36) along the leading edges (32, 34) of the first and second wall portions (46) are mutually connected at their tips (38) to define a plurality of teeth (40), wherein the first surfaces (80, 82) of the first wall portion (44) and the second wall portion (46) define therebetween a guide slot (76) for a movable blade (24) of said blade set (20), and wherein the first wall portion (44), at the second surface (86) thereof, comprises a smoothed transitional region (94), at least at the forwardly extending projections (36).