Kestrel & Sons

Barbers / standing appointments

Two chairs on cadence
One kept for walk-ins
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A good cut has a half-life. We schedule around it.

Every cut starts out looking like a haircut and ends up looking like hair. The gap between those two days is the only number worth arguing about, and it is not the same for a skin fade as it is for a scissor crop. Work out yours, then take the slot that matches it.

A worn leather and steel barber chair standing alone against a bare plaster wall, lit from a window to one side
Chair two, between slotsShop photograph

The advisor

How often you actually need us.

This is a calculator built to sell fewer haircuts. Half the answers it gives tell you to stay away longer, and one of them tells you not to take a standing slot at all.

The cut you wear

How fast it grows

Sample intervals and rateA real shop sets both

Nobody's hair reads a calendar. These are the weeks where the shape stops holding, not the weeks where it starts looking bad, and a fortnight either side of them is normal. If it still looks right on the day, skip it.

Cadence

A dial showing the number of weeks between cuts, drawn against a twelve week ring
4weeks

The ring is twelve weeks. The red is your interval, and the tick it lands on is the slot we would write in the book.

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The list

Six things, done properly.

No colour, no perms, no packages, no membership. If you want any of those we will tell you where to go, and we mean that kindly.

Cut

Clipper or scissor, whichever the head wants. Finished with a hot towel and a neck shave.

$38

Skin fade

The tightest thing we do, and the shortest half-life on this page. Worth knowing before you commit to it.

$42

Cut and beard

The beard is shaped to the cut rather than trimmed separately, which is the whole reason to book them together.

$52

Beard shape-up

Lines, length and the neck. Ten minutes if it has been kept, longer if it has not.

$22

Edge and neck tidy

For standing-slot clients between visits. It buys about a week and it is not a haircut.

$12

First cut, under ten

Takes as long as it takes. Nobody is rushed out of that chair, including us.

$25
Sample pricesA real shop replaces this card
A hand-operated barber clipper lying on pale cloth, blade and lever in profile
Hand clippersIllustrative

The standing slot

Held, not booked.

A standing slot is the same weekday at the same time, written into the book for the rest of the year at the interval the advisor gave you. You stop deciding, and we stop chasing.

If you are the sort of person who books when you happen to notice in the mirror, this is not for you. That is a perfectly good way to get a haircut and the third chair is kept for exactly that.

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01

The slot is yours until you drop it

Same weekday, same time, every few weeks. Say the word at the chair and it ends there. No email, no notice period, no cancellation screen.

02

Skipping is free and expected

Tell us by closing the night before and the slot stays yours. We would rather have an empty chair than cut hair that did not need cutting.

03

Two missed without a word and it goes back

Not a penalty. It is the only fair way to hold a Friday at five when someone else is asking for it.

04

No deposit, no card on file, no app

You pay on the day like everyone else. The book is a book.

05

You can hand it to somebody

Away for a month, send whoever you like in your place. The slot does not care whose head is in it.

An empty traditional barbershop room with a single chair, a mirrored counter, a wall clock and a tall window
A shop with nobody waiting in itIllustrative photograph

Find us

Two chairs on cadence. One for whoever walks in.

Standing slots are set at the chair, not online. Come in once, we work out the interval together, and it goes in the book from there.

Kestrel & Sons 14 Bellwether Street
Corner entrance, blue door
Sample addressfictional shop

Set your cadence

Hours

Tuesday to Friday9 to 6
Saturday8 to 3
Sunday and MondayClosed
Sample hours

The walk-in chair is first come. On a Saturday it is honest to say you may wait, and we would rather you knew that than found out standing up.

Two folding razors with comb guards and a pair of thinning shears laid out on a pale bench
On the benchIllustrative