https://www.instagram.com/p/9UcZGclIfV/?taken-by=_sorrywongnumber this, thanks alex for turning 11 of these!
Haha my most expensive was a kaizen ghost silk surprisingly because it was my first ken and i at that time, kendamas in Singapore were still quite expensive. So i got it for $49.90 SGD The rest i got were really good but cheap like a homegrown for $30
Mmm I dunno, it would have to be very obscure, back of the warehouse for a long time sorta thing. You might honestly have better luck at some sorta Japanese flea market spot. Or bribe a school teacher. I've seen bins on bins of amazing old kendamas (sakuras, shin saks, fujis, etc) chilling in Japanese classrooms, shredded to pieces by young Japanese school kids.
Wait the gold flakes are actually real gold? I have a Kotobuki as well and thought it was just golden paint
I have a red Kotobuki Mugen (same as pictured above being held by Colin). As rare and as expensive as it may be I have destroyed that thing to pieces. Even has "SWAG" written with sharpie on the big cup lmao. #DestroyAllDamas
LOL you have the Swag kotobuki?! I haven't seen that thing surface in a while. I remember a kid trying to trade me for it, he wanted waaay more than I was willing to trade for that destroyed thing haha. Its a weird piece of American dama history. I'm not sure if the flakes are actual gold, @Cheech_Sander do you know that for sure, or was that just a figure of speech?
Hahaha yeah, I bought it off my buddy who got me into Kendama more than 8 years ago and he had written swag on it. Then I destroyed it and traded it away and it ended up going all over he world and somehow making its way back to me free of charge. (HUGE Shoutouts to Mikey Schelling for sending the Kotobuki back to me for free)
@Austin Donovan @htimSxelA they're absolutely real gold, which is sick. BUT one of gold's unique properties is its malleability, so one ounce of gold can be hammered flat and thin enough to cover a whole tennis court. So flakes, as thin as they are, don't really have much value. But they look cool!
That's awesome!!! Never would've known that. Thanks bro. Gunna cherish it that much more now. Bouta go jam it though now that I know it's real gold. Brb
hahaha amazing. I remember I was thinking I could maybe mount it back onto the lathe and carefully clean it up, hopefully get the word swag off. Its pretty funny with it though
most i think I've ever paid for a kendama was when i was in japan for last years KWC and bought one of the keyaki musous, it was well worth the price and will probably be shredded very hard over many years.