Thinning shears and a comb working across the back of a dark head of hair, close in

Station 03 — the shelf at the till

Eight things,
no more

Everything on this shelf is something one of us uses on the floor every day. If we stop using it, it comes off the shelf. Collection only — we do not post.

Chair two, 10.15 on a Friday · the comb on the shelf, in use

On the shelf today

Shot on the same white, under the same lamp, at the same distance — so the tin you see is the size of the tin you get.

A straight razor, a shaving brush and a cream bowl arranged on a white ground01

Shave set, three pieces

Open razor, badger-free brush and a bowl that keeps lather warm for the whole forty-five minutes.

3 pc£58

A single cordless trimmer standing upright on a plain white background02

Neck trimmer

For the three weeks between cuts. We will show you where the line goes before you take it home.

cordless£34

A flat paddle brush casting a hard shadow across a white surface03

Paddle brush

Only worth buying if you keep four inches or more on top. Under that, use your hands.

180 mm£18

A black carbon comb lying on pale grey with a few cut hairs across it04

Carbon comb

Antistatic, heat-proof, no moulding seam to drag through a parting. The one in our top pockets.

180 mm£6

A pair of steel scissors open on a black surface05

Beard scissors

Five and a half inch, Japanese steel, flat blade. Sharpened free here for as long as you own them.

5.5″£42

Scissors, clippers and combs laid out in a row on a folded towel, in black and white06

Roll for the lot

Waxed canvas, eight pockets, rolls up with a strap. What the apprentices carry between the two shops.

8 pocket£46

Station 04 — what goes in your hair

Four tins, and which one you actually want

We make nothing ourselves and we do not pretend to. These four come from a works in Stockport that has been doing it since the sixties, in our own plain tins because theirs have a cartoon on them.

Hard clay, 100 ml£12Matt, high hold, for short hair that wants to stand up

Matt cream, 100 ml£12Soft hold, no shine, for anything over three inches

Pre-shave oil, 30 ml£9Six drops is a shave. A bottle lasts most people a year

Shave soap in a tin, 90 g£10Tallow, unscented. Will outlast the brush you whip it with

Soap laid along a jaw with a brush, photographed close and in black and white
Soap off a brush · the only way we lather
A heap of steel scissors tipped across a work surface
Sharpening Tuesday · bring yours in by nine
A chrome and leather chair standing beside the counter under a low hanging lamp
The chair by the till · everything is behind it

How buying works

Over the counter, in a paper bag, that is it

There is no basket on this page and there will not be one. Everything is on the shelf behind the till at 41 Chester Street and you can pick it up whether or not you are having a cut — walk in, point at it, pay, leave. If a tin has gone, it comes back on the Thursday delivery.

We will not post anything. A £12 tin does not survive £4.95 of postage and a weekend in a van, and we would rather you came in and let us tell you that you have bought the wrong one for your hair.

Anything bought here can be brought back open, used, any time, if it does not suit you. Scissors we sold you are sharpened free for as long as you own them — leave them on a Tuesday before nine, collect them Wednesday.

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