“I brought the urban feel and dying, classic barbershop experience to the northwoods.”
Jesse · Owner & barber
His building. His mural. His photograph.
Keep scrolling — 113 South Main comes on for the night.
The only barbershop in Shawano.
Open since 2018, in a building he bought and brought the original brick back on.
Appointment only. No walk-ins.
It says so on his door. Every chair here is booked ahead.
Mon–Fri till 8. Saturday 9 to 5.
Closed Sundays. Take a chair below, or call the shop.
Dusk00% lit
4.8★
166 Google reviews
The town already decided.
By appointment
No walk-ins
Your chair is held. You are not waiting behind four people.
Straight razor
Hot lather, still
Most shops around here gave it up. This one didn’t.
Six days
Weeknights till 8
Mon–Fri 10–8, Saturday 9–5. Closed Sunday.
The owner
“Born & raised in Milwaukee, WI, I brought the urban feel and dying, classic barbershop experience to the northwoods.”
Jesse Krajenka · Owner & barber · his own words
He opened in 2018, bought the building a year later and brought its original brick back. Sports on the TV, good music, no pretension — and five barbers who each run their own book.
Five chairs
The crew.
Everyone here runs their own book. Pick your barber, or take the first open chair.Swipe →
His room, mid-cut — three of the five chairs working.The shop’s own photograph · D. Lee Photography
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Jesse Krajenka
Owner · Barber
Born and raised in Milwaukee; brought the urban shop north and opened here in 2018. It took him seven years to fill all five of these chairs.
The Fade · Straight-Razor Fade · Logo & Design Cuts
Tap any line for the details. These are the shop’s own prices.
A proper barbershop haircut: consultation first, clippers and shears, crisp edges, styled to walk out. Old school service, no rushing you out of the chair.
30–45 min · Add a beard trim to the same sitting and it's $35 together.
Low, mid or high — faded down and blended until you can't find the line. The bread and butter of the shop and the reason half the county drives in.
45 min · Books as a men's haircut. Keep it fresh every two to three weeks.
Everything the fade is, finished the old way — hot lather and a straight razor. Most shops in the area gave up the straight razor years ago; this one didn't, and it's the single thing Jesse names as the difference.
45–60 min · The sharpest finish in the shop.
A real beard service — shape decided with you, lines cut clean, hot towel, oil through it at the end. Mustache work included when you're wearing one.
20–30 min · With a haircut in the same chair it's $35 for both.
Haircut, hot-lather straight razor shave, a run of hot towels, charcoal mask, 24-karat gold mask, facial massage, nose and ear wax, and styling. Two hours start to finish. Jesse's own framing: women go to the salon or spa to treat themselves — a man can come here and do the same.
2 hours · The masks are also sold on their own — gold $20, charcoal $15.
First cuts to first day of school. Kid-friendly chairs and barbers who've seen every wiggle — parents in the next chair welcome.
20–30 min · Sports on the TV helps more than you'd think.
Cut and styled in the same chairs, by the same barbers. Roughly one customer in five here is a woman. No chemical services — this is a barbershop, and it doesn't pretend to be a salon.
45 min · Book ahead — styling holds a chair longer.
Freehand designs cut in, from clean part lines to a full logo. Customers have walked out with a barber pole in the back of their head. Bring a photo or an idea.
add-on · varies · Designs show best on a fresh fade.
As published on the shop's own Booker booking page.
Add to any chair
Haircut + beard trim, together
$35
24-karat gold facial
$20
Charcoal mask
$15
Brow bundle
$35
Ear & nose wax
$10
Ships worldwide
The shelf.
The four lines he carries, stocked on Main Street and posted anywhere in the world.
Reuzel
The Rotterdam pomade line — a hold for every cut on the board, from grease to matte clay.
Reuzel's own store, reuzel.com retail
$19.95
Silent Beard
Oils and balms that do the talking your beard shouldn't.
Price to come from the shop
$ [ask]
Baroque Royal
The Ocean Blue beard range — oil, balm and soap.
Price to come from the shop
$ [ask]
Valhalla Beard & Body
A one-man Arizona workshop making beard and body care by hand — and the shop collaboration Jesse says is in the works.
valhallabeardandbody.net retail
$19
Prices shown are the brands’ own published retail; anything we couldn’t source reads “$ [ask]” and cannot be bought. Checkout is a live Stripe session, priced on the server.
Off the clock
The shop shows up for Shawano.
“Every year the barbershop does a school supply drive as well as other donations for first responders, special needs children, and helping out the local schools.”
Jesse · his own words
Every year
A school supply drive out of the shop.
First responders
Donations to the people who answer the call.
Special needs children
Support given quietly, not campaigned on.
Local schools
Whatever the schools need, when they ask.
St. James Lutheran School publicly thanked the shop after one of the drives.
Licensed barbers
Your chair is waiting.
Every chair on Main Street is full — it took seven years to fill them. The empty one is in the second shop. Why it is still empty, in his words: “it’s so hard to find barbers these days who actually have a license.”
Your book, your schedule
Rent the chair. Set your hours, keep your clients, build your name.
A room that stays busy
The only barbershop in Shawano. 4.8 stars, 166 reviews, steady since 2018.
A brand behind you
The shop's following feeds every chair in it.
The second shop
Within an hour of Shawano. Not waiting on a lease — waiting on barbers.
Nothing posted · nobody called
Jesse, at the door of the first one.
Booking
Get in the chair.
Tell the assistant what you want and who you want it from. It knows every chair, at any hour.
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