Every Kendama Brand We Track

Acid Labs Kendama

Acid Labs' Cure Shape, now on its V2.1 revision, uses cups roughly 2 grams heavier than the sword with matching engravings on the big-cup and handle rings, and its tamas are offered in a Honrui Sticky coating tied to the brand's Chinese manufacturing partner.

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Analog Kendamas

Los Angeles maker run by Baldo; its EMP shape followed the earlier Analog C and Squab.

Big Cup Fast Hand

Deal With It

Portland operation run by Matthew Rice, who also co-founded Grain Theory.

Destroy All Tamas

Grant Bray's one-person operation, launched via Kickstarter in 2024; every tama is hand-painted, cleared, packed, and shipped by Grant himself.

Erratic Squirrel

Launched in 2025 by competitive player Miguel De La Torre; the Kitchen Tama nods to him learning tricks in his home kitchen.

Grain Theory

Portland brand co-founded in 2013 by Jake Wiens and Matthew Rice; its US-made GT2 drops the balance hole using a swooped base cup.

HI Kendama

Kendama Depot

Salem, Connecticut retailer founded in 2021 by Michael Reeves, stocking most of the major kendama brands in one shop.

Kendama USA

Marietta, Georgia company that bills itself as America's original kendama brand, sharing kendama since 2006; its Craft line is turned in its own US woodshop.

Kimball Kendama

Playing since 2008, Kimball Kendama makes unique hand-painted designs and products developed with community feedback.

Lil Burger Kendama

Locked Studios

Danny 'dama_danny' Markowitz's brand; its flagship Deadbolt shape and the Danny Mod both carry his name.

Lotus Kendamas

Isaac Turner sold the first Lotus kendama, the Sacred shape, at the North American Kendama Open in 2019; the brand still runs out of Toledo, Ohio.

Occult Kendamas

Occult bills itself as the home of the Jump shape, an evolution of its earlier Bump shape with bigger cups and wider stalls.

Quad Kendamas

A.J. Moyer hand-turned Quad's first thousand kendamas from a truck bed before adding a CNC lathe in its San Diego area shop; Quad also co-runs the California Kendama Cup.

Question Kendamas

Sol Kendamas

Founded by Chad Covington in 2014 out of Kentucky; its 1UP shape, launched in 2019, became a reference point other shapes get measured against.

Sundune

Grand Rapids, Michigan shop that hand-finishes its Wave shape kendamas and makes the Magnetama, a magnet-cupped tama for otherwise impossible stall tricks.

Sweets Kendamas

Founded in 2010 by Matt 'Sweets' Jorgenson out of a Minneapolis backyard shed with a $3,000 stake; its Boost shape and Minnesota-made Homegrown line are house designs.

Active Kendama

Founded in 2015 and run by a team spread across eight countries; its Shinaji model honors Hong Kong pioneer Li Ho Cheung.

Cereal Kendama

Singapore brand co-founded by Jonathan Lee; the name riffs on kendama being 'the most important meal of the day', and its Ascent shape was voted a community shape of the year.

Crane Kendama

Chinese brand whose CHINA CEN line draws on porcelain design, each tama topped with the character for crane.

Gloken

The Global Kendamas Network, founded in Matsumoto, Japan in 2012 by Tamotsu Kubota; it runs the Kendama World Cup in Hatsukaichi and co-produces its LEGAXIS line with a Hiroshima turnery.

Higgs Kendama

Hong Kong and Shenzhen maker that hand-makes its tamas and names everything after particle physics, from the Boson Clear finish to the Charon shape.

JAC KENDAMA

JAC KENDAMA is a small Tokyo brand run by WHIRLWIND Co., Ltd., with kendama shaped in the Fukuyama and Fuchu area of Hiroshima Prefecture, a region long known for its woodworking craftsmanship. The brand takes its motif from the fukura suzume, a puffed sparrow that is a traditional Japanese symbol of happiness, and favors clean unpainted wood over heavy paint. Production runs in small limited batches, including an upcycling line that turns maple reclaimed from cut-up Mizuno baseball bats into complete kendama.

Kendama Co

The storefront of Yamagata Koubou, the JKA-certified factory behind Ozora, in Nagai, Yamagata.

Mugen Musou

Turned start to finish by IWATA in Hatsukaichi, the birthplace of kendama; chosen as an official gift at the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit.

Ozora

Made entirely in-house by Yamagata Koubou in Nagai, Japan, the JKA's certified kendama factory since 1978; the Ozora line itself launched in 2008.

Su Lab

Kawagoe, Japan maker that ran a kendama cafe for a decade and created the Friction Clear finish.

Winner Kendamas

Da Originz

Eric Woss left a Michelin-starred kitchen to found DAO in Freistadt, Austria in 2018; it mills its own Austrian beech in-house.

Kendama Europe

Founded in Munich in 2008 by Marc Wibbels and bills itself as Europe's first kendama company; its beech PLAY kendama arrived in 2011.

Kendama Israel

Aviram Lugassi hand-paints every piece from his Tel Aviv shop and developed the brand's Rhino Clear grip coating.

Kendama Senses

Kin Kendamas

KROM Kendama

Copenhagen brand co-founded by 2014 world freestyle champion Thorkild May; its GAS model rides the house 2GOOD shape.

OKendama

Riga, Latvia workshop that turns its ZERO1 shape in-house from European maple, birch, and ash.

One Kendama

Billed as the first Swiss kendama company, operating near Geneva since 2022 with its house OK shape.

Prism Kendama

Alba Iulia, Romania maker incorporated in 2025; every shape is named for one of its players, like Ivan's Epicenter and Hacman's Inazuma.

Terra Kendama

Canadian brand founded in 2011 by Alex Smith, whose first Pill shape came from a leftover block of Jatoba wood; now based in Edmonton with US fulfillment.