01
You arrive
The door is locked between appointments. Knock, or wait a minute, because the last one is being swept up.
Nape Barbers
Specification
What forty five minutes is.
CutWet, scissor over comb
NeckRazored, hot towel
TimeForty five minutes
PriceThirty eight pounds
One pass
The whole cut is this, four hundred times.
Clippers over comb along the nape, a few millimetres at a time. Nothing about it is quick and none of it can be rushed.
The appointment
What happens when you come in.
There is one chair and one barber, so the shop is either empty or it is you.
02
We talk first
Five minutes before anything is cut. What grew out badly, what you do to it in the morning, what you want in six weeks.
03
The cut
Washed, cut wet, dried, then checked dry and corrected. The correction is the part most shops skip.
04
The finish
Hot towel, razored neck, and nothing put in your hair unless you ask for it.
Enquire
Book a chair.
Tell us roughly when suits and whether you have been before. We reply with two or three times.