Ancient samurais entered the battle with their prized swords, a symbol of their pride on the battlefield. In the contemporary realm of hair fashion, the scissors serve as an extension of a designer’s hand, showcasing creativity. Functioning through countless openings and closings, a pair of scissors must maintain precision, sharpness, and meet evolving expectations. For these reasons every scissor is handmade to exacting standards by skilled craftsmen.
KEIUN scissors are our traditional craftsman’s ultimate expression of a cutting tool created to enable the hair designer to achieve their ultimate hair fashion. KEIUN are hair-cutting scissors created with the beauty and edge of a Japanese sword under the supervision of Mr. Shigeyoshi Iwasaki, a highly reputed Sanjo craftsman of Japanese swords. He did significant research on materials of Japanese swords, “Tamahagane”, and spent his entire life making superb blades, using both scientific research and practice. He is also famous for his various significant activities such as research on blades in Shoso-in, an important historic building of the Nara period, and technical support toward developing countries as a craftsman.
In 1998 he was invited to the 50th memorial Munich International Trade Fairs and demonstrated Japanese traditional forging technique and has received several prestigious awards. And in name, he truly is a master of his craft These scissors have layered structures for improved dampening capacity, resulting in an original cutting feel and reduced cutting shock to the hands.
Damascus steel can be categorized into two groups, European and Japanese. European Damascus reveals its layers cleanly on a black surface, while the layers in Japanese Damascus steel overlap to form a cloudy appearance. As opposed to a machine-like pattern, the organic and mysterious pattern of our Japanese Damascus scissors reveals the Zen of Japanese beauty. Each scissor has its own “face” and the natural flow of the pattern running from the edge of the blade to the edge of the handgrip becomes the motif of the Japanese name, KEIUN. All our scissors are carefully hand forged in Sanjo, Japan. Sanjo is a small city in the centre of Niigata Prefecture and is known as a metalwork’s town.
M A I N T E N A N C E:
1. After each haircut and daily use, clean scissors by removing debris. Wipe blades with a chamois.
2. After cleaning, Apply a small drop of quality scissor oil on each blade’s balance face above the centre screw. Open and close scissors to spread oil. Wipe off excess oil with a chamois.
3. When not in use, store scissors in a case or stand to keep them dry and protected from damage.
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