Chair 1Off today
Sam
9 years · off Tuesdays
Quickest chair in the room — in and out in twenty minutes if you are on a lunch break. Also the one to sit with if you have brought a child.
Show us the number
Four chairs on 14 Wood Street. Walk in, point at a guard on the chart, and we will know exactly what you mean — which is easier than describing it, and a lot easier than showing us a photograph of someone with different hair.
- No appointment needed
- Cuts from ₹150
- Open Tue–Sun
The chart on the wall
Pick your number
Every clipper guard cuts to a fixed length. Choose the one you want on the sides and the list below narrows to the cuts that actually use it — and the booking form fills itself in. If you have never known what to ask for, this is the whole point of the page.
Nothing picked yet
Press any number above. Most people who walk in and say “short on the sides but not bald” mean a #2 on the sides taken up to a #4, which is the first drawing on the left. If you would rather not decide, say that in the chair — every barber here would rather ask than guess.
Seven guards · 0.5 mm to 25 mm · drawn to one scale
#0 — Skin
0.5 mm · bare blade
No guard at all — the blade runs on the scalp and you can see skin through it. This is the bottom of a skin fade and the edge of a line-up, not usually a whole haircut on its own.
#1 — Very short
3 mm · 1/8"
Three millimetres. About the length of a two-day beard. Sides of a low fade, or the whole head if you want almost nothing to manage.
#2 — Short
6 mm · 1/4"
Six millimetres, and the number asked for more than any other in this shop. Short, but the hair still holds its colour and texture — you do not look shaved.
#3 — Short-medium
10 mm · 3/8"
A centimetre. Enough to keep a little shape and to push around with a hand. Ask for this if you want it to still look cut after three weeks instead of two.
#4 — Medium
13 mm · 1/2"
Half an inch. You can run your fingers through it. The usual top end of a mid fade and the safe number if it is your first time in the chair.
#6 — Long
19 mm · 3/4"
Nearly two centimetres. This is a trim rather than a cut — it takes the weight off and keeps the shape you walked in with.
#8 — Longest
25 mm · 1"
One inch, the longest guard we run. Sides come down only a little below the top, so it grows out without leaving a hard line anywhere.
Cuts
The board
All 13 cuts
Times are how long the chair is actually occupied, not an optimistic number. Prices are what you pay at the counter — nothing is added on at the end.
Skin Fade
Bare blade at the bottom, blended up through a #1 to a #2. Done right there is no line anywhere to point at.
Guards used#0#1#2Time35 minPrice₹450Low Fade
The fade starts just above the ear and stops there. Nothing shows once your hair is combed — the office cut.
Guards used#1#2#3Time30 minPrice₹400Mid Fade
Starts level with the temple. This is what most people mean when they walk in and just say "a fade".
Guards used#1#3#4Time30 minPrice₹400High Fade
Comes up level with the crown, so the contrast is hard and deliberate. Needs a visit every two weeks to stay right.
Guards used#0#3Time35 minPrice₹450Burst Fade
Fades in an arc around the ear and leaves the back long. Sits well with length on top or a taper at the nape.
Guards used#0#2Time35 minPrice₹450Taper
Only the neckline and the sideburns come down. Length on the top and sides is left exactly where it was.
Guards used#1#4Time25 minPrice₹350French Crop
#2 round the sides, scissors on top, fringe left blunt and pushed forward. Good on a receding hairline.
Guards used#2Time30 minPrice₹400Buzz Cut, One Length
One guard, whole head, nothing blended. Tell us the number and that is exactly what you get.
Guards used#1#2#3#4#6#8Time15 minPrice₹250Scissor Cut
No clipper touches your head. For length on top, proper layers, or hair that refuses to sit flat.
Guards usedNone — scissor onlyTime40 minPrice₹500Trim & Tidy
Keeps the length you already have and cleans the edges. The cut for someone growing something out.
Guards used#6#8Time20 minPrice₹300Kids' Cut, Under 12
Sam and Priya take the young ones and neither of them rushes. Bring a photo if there is a specific idea.
Guards used#2#4#6Time20 minPrice₹250Line-Up Only
Hairline, edges and neck squared off between cuts. No length comes off anywhere.
Guards used#0Time10 minPrice₹150Fade & Beard
A full fade and beard work in one sitting. Worth booking — fifty minutes is hard to slot into a walk-in queue.
Guards used#0#1#3Time50 minPrice₹700
Under-12s and anyone over 65 pay the kids’ price on any cut. Cash, UPI and card all work. We do not take a deposit and we do not charge for a no-show — just tell us if you cannot make it.
Beard & shave
Below the cheekbone
The one to book
Hot-Towel Shave
40 min · ₹600
Two hot towels, pre-shave oil, badger brush and lather, open razor with the grain and then across it, cold towel, balm. Danny does all of them.
It is forty minutes with your eyes shut and it is the only thing in the shop we will ask you not to rush. If you have never had one, have it before something rather than after — you will not want to go straight back to a desk.
Beard Trim & Shape
20 min₹250
Clipper and scissor through the length, cheek line and neck line set by hand.
Beard Sculpt, Razor Edge
30 min₹350
As above, with the cheek and neck lines cut in with an open razor. Holds its edge about ten days.
Head Shave, Wet
30 min₹450
Clippered to zero and then finished wet with an open razor. Genuinely smooth for about two days.
Moustache Tidy
10 min₹120
Ten minutes over the lip and the corners. No charge at all if you are already in the chair for a beard.
Four chairs
Who is in
Days off are fixed, so if you only sit with one person it is worth knowing them. Ask for anybody by name at the door — nobody minds waiting for the chair they want, and nobody here minds being waited for.
Chair 2Off today
Irfan
12 years · off Wednesdays
Skin fades. If you want the taper to disappear completely, give him the full thirty-five minutes and do not rush him at the end.
Chair 3Off today
Danny
7 years · off Thursdays
Open-razor work and every hot-towel shave that leaves this shop. Slowest of the four on purpose — a shave takes forty minutes and it should.
Chair 4Off today
Priya
6 years · off Sundays
Scissor work, curls, and anything with real length on top. Fills up first — walk in before 11am if you want her chair.
All four are on the same price list. Nobody costs more than anybody else here, and nobody is a “senior” anything.
Book a chair
Or just turn up
You don’t need to book. Walk in any time — this just saves you the wait.
Booked chairs are held for ten minutes past the time. After that we take whoever is waiting, and you go to the front of the queue when you arrive. That is the whole policy.
- Straight to a phone
- 080 4718 2200
- Deposit
- None
- Cancelling
- Just ring
That’s in the book
We do not send a confirmation email — if something changes, ring080 4718 2200.
Find us
Wood Street
The Fade Room
14 Wood Street
Richmond Town
Bengaluru 560025
Hours
- Mon
- Closed
- Tue–Fri
- 9am – 8pm
- Sat
- 8am – 8pm
- Sun
- 9am – 5pm
Last cut goes in thirty minutes before we close. Turn up at five to eight on a Friday and somebody will still do it, but they will not be pleased.
Ground floor, between the tailor and the photocopy shop. The shutter is bone white and the door is on the left — there is no sign above it, only the number.
Parking. Two-wheelers go on the pavement outside. Cars: the lane beside the building takes about six, and it is free after 6pm. Do not park in front of the shutter next door — they will move you.
