Kennomai

Masafumi Maeda, who manages Kennomai’s online store, is a customer rather than a craftsman. He says he came to the scissors as a salon client and that his thick, coarse hair is what made their cutting quality register. Kennomai operates under Mandoll Co., Ltd. in Nakano-ku, Tokyo, selling cutting and thinning shears plus left-handed builds direct at scissors.ocnk.net, with thinning rates from 10 to 45 percent.

Overview

Kennomai is a Japanese scissor brand based in Nakano, Tokyo. The brand operates under its parent company, Mandoll Co., Ltd. (有限会社マンドール). Kennomai sells through its own online store and focuses on professional hairdressing scissors.

Product Range

Kennomai offers cutting scissors, thinning scissors, and left handed scissors. Their specialties include blunt cutting, slide cutting, design cutting, thinning across a wide range (10 to 45%), and volume control. The brand sits in a mid range price tier.

Background

According to Kennomai, the online store is managed by Masafumi Maeda, who describes himself as a customer turned advocate rather than a barber or stylist. Maeda states that he became interested in the brand’s scissors after experiencing them as a client at a salon run by Mr. Wakabayashi, a scissor craftsman. The store manager credits his own thick, coarse hair as the reason he noticed the difference in cutting quality between Kennomai scissors and other brands.

That origin story is unusual in the scissor industry, where most brand representatives come from either manufacturing or hairdressing backgrounds.

Distribution

Kennomai sells directly through its online store at scissors.ocnk.net. American stylists would need to order directly from the Japanese online shop, which may involve international shipping logistics.

Product range overview

Six Kennomai models carry guide prices from $491 to $614. The range covers cutting and thinning in the upper-mid to premium professional tier for Japan-made scissors.

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