vp999
Masterpiece
Interesting watch. I need this to prune my Mallsai..
$35k Bonsai scissors.
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Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
The real question is: do they cut better than 35000 one dollar scissors?
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Raising the bar for anyone who thought the Ichiban was expensive...
vp999
Masterpiece
Get back at me in about an hr, Amazon tracking says they both should be here very soon and I'll let u know the verdict
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Gabler
Masterpiece
$35k is a bit much, but just for the joy of owning them, I might one day save up and buy one of the $1,100 pairs of scissors.
vp999
Masterpiece
Just don’t put it in the dishwasher.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Tried them. DId not like them.
Fortunately scrap metal dealer passed by.
Fortunately scrap metal dealer passed by.
vp999
Masterpiece
HAhahha... Took the guy a year to make them man.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Not a very good smithy is he then? A year to make some clippers.
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
Snob appeal is for people who have nothing but too of someone else's money. People who earn money know its value.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Where is snob appeal mentioned?
Or do YOU have a problem with people willing to spend their money on this?
Some people value stuff that other people do not.
Some people have a lot of money. Some less.
Deal with it.
Envy is an ugly beast
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
You guys DON’T just karate chop for maintenance pruning?
leatherback
The Treedeemer
HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
How about these bad boys?...
Clicio
Masterpiece
I would like to have one of those, just for the sake of the art involved.
I wouldn't use it, of course.
I wouldn't use it, of course.
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
Why wouldn't you use it? Don't you have a cut-out coloring book?
vp999
Masterpiece
Say what you will but I admire Japanese workmanship very much. Saw this video recently about these guys making these tiny fishing lures and fishing containers for their tiny fish. It’s amazing
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
0 for 1
A. Gorilla
Omono
Quality doesnt increase in a linear fashion.
It gets harder and harder to wring out those final few details to make things "perfect".
The effort to get from 99.5 to 99.6 is more than the effort it takes to get from 1 to 90.
If that makes sense.
On the other hand, japanese are human and arent necessarily immune from circle jerk wheel spinning ocd false humility self-aggrandizing nonsense and hope we are just baffled by the mystique.
It gets harder and harder to wring out those final few details to make things "perfect".
The effort to get from 99.5 to 99.6 is more than the effort it takes to get from 1 to 90.
If that makes sense.
On the other hand, japanese are human and arent necessarily immune from circle jerk wheel spinning ocd false humility self-aggrandizing nonsense and hope we are just baffled by the mystique.
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
That video has popped up on my feed a few times, but I hadn't watched it until now. I could never justify $36k on cissors (hell, I can barely bring myself to drop $20) but I can appreciate the inter connection of two very old and prestigious art forms.
I think there was a thread a while back debating whether bonsai was an expensive hobby or not. I recall arguments in there about how the modern person has more resources at their fingertips than the (relative to their times and circumstances) wealthy people who first began bonsai. This illustrates why. That blacksmith said that scissors are much harder to make than a knife, and that's just a basic decent quality pair. Then imagine he had to harvest and smelt the iron himself (not unheard of back in the day) and that he had to fit it in between making all the horseshoes and gate hinges. Of course a pair of scissors cost folks back then a month's wages or more, and bonsai WAS a hobby for the wealthy. Now days I see no reason why anyone in an industrialized nation could be kept from bonsai by costs.
I think there was a thread a while back debating whether bonsai was an expensive hobby or not. I recall arguments in there about how the modern person has more resources at their fingertips than the (relative to their times and circumstances) wealthy people who first began bonsai. This illustrates why. That blacksmith said that scissors are much harder to make than a knife, and that's just a basic decent quality pair. Then imagine he had to harvest and smelt the iron himself (not unheard of back in the day) and that he had to fit it in between making all the horseshoes and gate hinges. Of course a pair of scissors cost folks back then a month's wages or more, and bonsai WAS a hobby for the wealthy. Now days I see no reason why anyone in an industrialized nation could be kept from bonsai by costs.
