Ray Gunn's Chop Shop

Here I am...

Been a good while since I posted anything because I have been busy standing behind my chair, chopping hair and doing the work!

So what's going on?

Beard is going is the big news so let's talk about it.

Last year I announced that I was shaving it off and promised some kind of update shortly after but unfortunately it just became a huge mess of planning and figuring s**t out that didn't work the way we would all be happy with.

So I am just going to do it myself, quietly and somewhat privately. It's a huge change and this beard has been with me through literally the best and worst of my life so it is only right that I say goodbye to it in a safe manner so as not to send myself on either a manic whirlwind or downward spiral.

If you would like to donate to a charity in memory of this beard, our great friends over at are doing a crazy adventure and supporting a collective of just incredible people. Theres is a story that is worth telling and something I wholeheartedly support. Link for this will be in the stories and the bio!

So for now, that's enough internet and social media for one day!

Go donate, come get your haircut and I will see you all soon as a beardless chap!

Until then,

Love, always
Ray F. Gunn

Bit of a different post to the usual Chop Shop news but had a lot of messages and should probably address a lot of the things in them on a public level.

I have taken part in a photography exhibition with and for Helpline Awareness Day. This is why so many of you have seen me appearing on billboards across our great city of Liverpool. This will be at on Jamaica Street on Wednesday 25th February. It is free, but you need a ticket!

I have always been very clear on my approach to mental health and have never been quiet about my own journey. I have used helplines in the past to get myself signposted to places that could help me, help others around me and they are largely responsible for saving the day!

I spent a lot of my life supporting and sharing my journey with them.

The world is an incredibly weird and difficult place to navigate but there is always help at hand, nobody should suffer silently and there will always be a path through whatever you are struggling with. Keep reaching out, keep healing and keep making the world that little bit better.

Lastly, yes, my name is Danni.

Love, always,

Ray F. Gunn

7 years of Chop Shop!

Here we are folks, another year in and another year of wild adventures and hair thrown on the floor!

When we started 7 years ago, we didn't even have a door to open! We had a chair, a table and a mirror. I had just enough money in my pocket to get myself back home and was fully invested in making this crazy thing work.

I don't know where to begin or where I would go with offering thanks and praise for those around me. The Red Brick crew have been incredible in giving me my dream and my home. You customers, clients, friends, whatever you are or became have allowed me to live my dream for these 7 years and I am hoping you will allow me to continue for many more!

I have absolutely no idea what the future holds, we have been working on some projects for a while and some for even longer that hopefully will come to fruition this year, so eyes peeled for that!

In the meantime, I will be continuing chopping hair, talking nonsense and listening to too much rock n roll. I will still not be taking enough pictures to satisfy social media algorithms and will be trying my best to respond to messages in some kind of timely fashion. As always, come hang out, let me play with your hair and let's keep doing this forever!

Thank you for 7 years!

Love, always
Ray F. Gunn

Tobi Gunn Forever

It is with an incredibly broken heart we say farewell to our tiny Tobi. Many of you got to meet him in the shop where he most certainly will have gotten under your feet or sat on your knee whilst I cut your hair and inevitably stole your heart.

Tobi lived his life not giving one single care about what anybody else thought, never did as he was told and was the most rock n roll dog ever. He came to us after Momma Gunn passed and we considered his time with us as his retirement. Tobi lived a very full and long life even though he was only in ours for a short time.

He was my best friend and I am going to miss him terribly.

Apologies for our silence during this time and I will get back to all of your messages as quickly as I can.

Tobi Gunn Forever

Bye Bye Beardiful

5 years ago I was clean shaven as the world entered into lockdown.

I decided to see how long I could grow my beard and let it do it's thing until present day. It has been a huge part of me and has been with me through some amazing and also some terrible times. It has served as a reminder of my determination and also holds many memories I am ready to relinquish.

The time has come to see what my face looks like beneath it.

I will be shaving it off in a few weeks for our chosen charities and will be accepting donations to these causes.

To celebrate the return of my tiny face we will hold an open day at The Chop Shop and will just hang out, listen to music and celebrate how boss life can be.

Dates TBA

Love, always

Ray F Gunn

Strength to strength...

Sort of rounding out our entry into the sixth year of business is a little reflection again on how we got here. I have been so focused on where we are going and pushing through the next obstacle that often I forget how far we have come!

The first time we took the Chop Shop on the road at I was so nervous and didn't really know if i was ready to do it for real. It went so well that we had to turn people away! So we started looking for a real shop!

After a chance shopping trip to we got chatting with some people and it turned out they would have quite liked a barber in there... So I signed up 2 days later!

Our first real physical shop opened Halloween morning 2018. We had little more than the big orange chair, a table my brother in law built for me and a banner that said Ray Gunn's Chop Shop that I had made on my kitchen table for the roadshow events.

I remember those days so well, trying to convince passers by to take a chance on a new barber in the city, there were busy days and there were days where I didn't cut a single hair.

Second incarnation came as we moved across the market, this was the first time I knew we were onto something good and our crew of regulars was growing and their friends started appearing too. The global pandemic of 2020 put a nail in our coffin for a little while, but we booted that back off again once lockdowns were lifted and we got to be appointment only.

The third and current home of the Chop Shop is our proudest achievement. You all have made it into what it is, it is a secret doorway with a sign saying "f**k off" that you all still open! You all seem to understand and support this crazy dream of mine despite it never making sense! I cut hair, that's it, I love to do it and I will be doing it forever but I never in a million years would have imagined this. You have squashed my doubts and worries time and time again, you have saved me when I have been low and shared in our victories. I am here for you all and will be for a very long time!

Thank you all for the love and trust.

Love
Ray F. Gunn

Coffee!!!

It is no secret that we are fuelled by caffeine and gasoline here in the Chop Shop!

It seemed only right that today we announce our partnership and collaboration with the immortal and show the world how it is!!!

Since they moved in next door to us in they have been so supportive and loving to us and hopefully they feel it too! Thank you for all that you have done for us and for making this ultra special brew with us!

The All New "CUTS 'N' BREWS" Signature Coffee From Ray Gunn's X Black Coffee Worship Collaboration!!
A Rich but Deep Bold Med/ Dark Roast from the North Sumartra Region giving you great ashy smokey rock n roll style notes with plenty of weight and body! Enjoy Black!

Available only from the Chop Shop!

Ray F. Gunn

Mugs!!!

Support your favourite barber every time you drink!!!

£10 and super limited run!

Made for us by our great friends and neighbour

Maybe something else from them tomorrow...

Ray F. Gunn

New shirts!

Super Limited Edition!

These are hand screened by our awesome friends over at and have turned out better than we have ever imagined!

True distressed black metal style print, screened and scorched!

Bring me £20 and take one away!

Sizes from Medium - 5XL

Ray F. Gunn

6 years

Time to raise hell!

Introducing our 666 logo for our 6th anniversary, because although we are confident we will be here in 666 years, it's too good to not release it now!

Celebrating our love for the heavier and darker side of rock n roll, we have some wicked news to follow!

Ray F. Gunn