Kennomai
- Japan
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Budget Luxury
Kennomai is a Japanese scissor brand from Tokyo, operated by Mandoll Co., offering cutting, thinning, and design-cut shears with 10-45% thinning range.
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...
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 are catalogued at $491–$614. The price band sits in the upper-mid to premium professional tier for Japan-made scissors, covering cutting and thinning with consistent high-specification positioning across the six-model catalogue.
See Also
Kennomai at a glance
- Budget
- Mid-range $200–400
- Makes
- Cutting Scissors, Thinning Scissors, Left-Handed Scissors
- Based in
- Japan
- Catalogue
- 6 models listed
Product Types
Specialties
Where to Buy
Official Brand Websites
Products
How Kennomai Compares
| Brand | Kennomai | alpha | Alu-Coba | Atali |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Japan | Japan | Japan | Japan |
| Typical price | Mid-range | Mid-range | US$200–US$250 | US$70–US$100 |
| Steel | — | SG2 | Cobalt steel | Japanese Stainless Steel |
| Blade types | — | — | — | — |
| Handles | — | — | Offset | Offset, Even |
| Specialties | Blunt cut, Slide cut, Design cut, Thinning(10~45%), Volume control | Volume control, Slide cut, Stroke cut, Blunt cut, Texture control | Base cut, Step cut, Volume control, Texture control | — |
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Kennomai is a Japanese brand based in Nakano-ku, Tokyo, operating under Mandoll Co. (有限会社マンドール), and it makes its shears in Japan.
Kennomai makes cutting scissors and thinning scissors for professional hairdressing, covering blunt cutting, slide cutting, and design cutting.
Current pricing lives on Kennomai’s own store at scissors.ocnk.net; this entry does not yet carry catalogued guide prices for specific models.
Blunt cutting, slide cutting, and design cutting, plus thinning shears that span a wide 10 to 45 percent removal range for volume control.
Kennomai sells directly through its own online store at scissors.ocnk.net. Buyers outside Japan order from the Japanese shop, so plan for international shipping.
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