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Price $1,495.00
This Alpha by Tom Krein features an acid wash finished drop point blade with dual thumbstuds and swedge. The handle has an acid and tumble finish titanium frame, matching tip up clip, and titanium backspacer. Nice lock up, detent and blade seating. Blade has scratches and stains, marks on the clip, good condition otherwise.
Kendrick is tagged as a maker here because the textured zirconium thumbstuds were added to the knife by him for the previous owner. Also comes in a Kendrick pouch.
Blade Length 2.875
Overall Length 7
Closed Length 4.25
Weight (oz) 4.4
Source Previously owned
Knife Type Tip Up Carry, Tip Up Clip
Blade Material D2
Blade Details Drop Point
Handle Material Metallic
Other Details Tactical
I have been fascinated with knives for as long as I can remember. I can’t remember a time that I didn’t have a knife… Growing up I usually had a slip joint of some kind in my pocket. As I got older I realized how useful a good knife was while playing in the woods, or fishing on the creek. After seeing a copy of Blade magazine my sophomore year in high school I decided that I wanted to be a custom knife maker. After reading everything I could find on the subject I started making some fixed blades around 1993. A little later I got a chance to work for knife making legends Bob Dozier, and A.G. Russell. I currently work for myself and my three boys help in the shop. Knives are some of man’s oldest tools. I feel the beauty of a knife is that it can be tool and weapon in one package. In my knives I feel that form should follow function. This doesn’t mean that a knife can’t be beautiful, just that its functionality shouldn’t be affected by aesthetics. I continually strive to improve my knives and the methods I use to build them.
Sean Kendrick is a knife maker from Ripley, Ohio. He’s been making knives for about 10 years and went full time in August of 2007. Sean has been collecting knives since he was about 7 years old and over the years he had come up with ideas for knives that he wanted to see but that he couldn’t afford to have made by someone else. When he turned 21 he decided to simply start making them himself. Around that time he saw in article in Tactical Knives on custom knife maker Mike Franklin of Hawg Knives. As serendipity would have it, Mike Franklin only lives about 20 minutes away from Sean in Aberdeen, Ohio. The two connected and Franklin began to mentor him in making the knives that he’d dreamed of seeing.
