# Can someone identify this ken?

**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-ken/67456
**Category:** Kendama
**Created:** [July 1, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-ken/67456 "2014-07-01T20:11:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![WretchedRapture](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wretchedrapture/32/1124_2.png) [@WretchedRapture](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/WretchedRapture)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-ken/67456/1 "2014-07-01T20:11:47Z")

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A friend of mine received this kendama as a hand-me-down from his cousin, and none of us seem to know what it is. I would ignore the tama because I don’t believe that was the original. I’m fairly new to the kendama game and I thought it was interesting because this ken has a fixed sarado and a little metal bevel. It is also strung straight through as opposed to the string being at an angle. It appears to me to be a knockoff Tribute of some sort, but I don’t want to make any false accusations.

And since we’re on the topic, was the Tribute the first kendama to have a fixed sarado?

Thanks for your help guys!

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### Author: ![Sergio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sergio/32/70931_2.png) [@Sergio](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sergio)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-ken/67456/2 "2014-07-07T00:45:37Z")

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I can establish one thing! whats a Kendama? ;D good luck finding out.

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### Author: ![Spirit\_Kendama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5e9695/32.png) [@Spirit\_Kendama](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Spirit_Kendama)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-ken/67456/3 "2014-07-11T13:45:55Z")

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> [@WretchedRapture](#):
>
> A friend of mine received this kendama as a hand-me-down from his cousin, and none of us seem to know what it is. I would ignore the tama because I don’t believe that was the original. I’m fairly new to the kendama game and I thought it was interesting because this ken has a fixed sarado and a little metal bevel. It is also strung straight through as opposed to the string being at an angle. It appears to me to be a knockoff Tribute of some sort, but I don’t want to make any false accusations.
> 
> And since we’re on the topic, was the Tribute the first kendama to have a fixed sarado?
> 
> Thanks for your help guys!
> 
> [http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y504/WretchedRapture/IMG\_0109\_zps0d2084ad.jpeg](http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y504/WretchedRapture/IMG_0109_zps0d2084ad.jpeg)

It’s a Hawaiian kendama company.  
Basically a knock off tribute.  
Tribute was the first but many followed.