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Earlier this week I shipped out a handturned Terra ken that had no string holes at all! Special request from a customer that mainly plays stringless
+1 for vote with your dollars, people really underestimate the importance of this. I think there may be some other nations in the running for...
lol, yea I guess bevel licking those might be dangerous. When you really play them in, they get a nice grip. At least for an oldschool dama, they...
@Stuart Barron oh nice! Hows the tama roundness? Some of the OG ozos are eggy af haha Good pickup either way!
I generally agree- with a handturned dama you have the maximum hands-on time with the piece to make sure it is honed. However, there are...
We haven't integrated any review system into the shop, because in my direct experience, usually those sorts of review systems are just gamed by...
Well, not every single kendama is made to be lunar honed, in fact, some players prefer a slinger-honed (butt-heavy) dama. So if you just assume a...
RWB did not handturn any kendamas, they had a couple wood lathes in their shop, but they were set up for scooping out cups or sanding. They were a...
Another interesting point: not all materials are well-suited to all methods. For example, loading a complex laminated blank onto the old RWB CNC...
Great thread! There is definitely a lot of grey-area as to what 'hand-turned' means. A great example is tama-making, @xplodit like you mentioned,...
For cheaper dama, expecting perfectly honed isn't going to happen every time. If every piece that isn't perfectly weight matched and lunar honed...
What sort of ken? Some are more prone to loose cups than others
oh, lol! My bad
@earthgirl420 oooh, do it! I want to see what you come up with :D
Thats from a Krom Bday slaydawg, its pretty thrashed, I honestly doubt you want it haha. Oak is a very hard species, it is not kind to a maple tama :p
