Walter Brend
Model 2 Flipper · Prototype
Recurve & Flipper
An early one-off prototype kept in Walter Brend’s own collection — a Model 2 reworked as an assisted-opening flipper. The satin-finished recurve blade carries a false top edge and a notched thumb rest, and snaps open on the flipper tab.
The frame is textured black aluminum with a tip-up black stainless clip and a lanyard pin at the butt, locked by a liner. Three and three-quarter inches of blade, eight and seven-eighths overall, five-tenths past five ounces — a working tactical pattern in excellent condition, marked with the Brend banner.
- Maker Walter Brend
- Model Prototype Model 2 (One-Off)
- Form Assisted-Opening Flipper
- Lock Liner Lock
- Blade Satin Recurve · 3 3/4″
- OAL 8 7/8″
- Weight 5.1 oz
- Handle Textured Black Aluminum
- Carry Black Stainless Clip · Tip-Up
- Marking BREND (Banner)
Closed · The Banner
Spine & Grind
Tip-Up Clip
Walter Brend
Walterboro, South Carolina · Knifemakers Guild
Walter Brend came to knifemaking from an earlier trade as a meat cutter, grinding his first knife by hand in November 1980. He was admitted to the Knifemakers’ Guild within his first year of making — unusually fast — and went full-time in 1984, working for decades out of Walterboro, South Carolina, with later years in Alabama and Ridge Spring.
His reputation was built at the grinder: clean, hand-ground bevels and satin-finished fighters earned him the trade nickname “King of the Grinders.” His signature is the Model 2 fighter, and his patterns have since been produced in quantity by Pro-Tech, Böker, Benchmade and Spyderco. This flipper is an early one-off he kept for himself.
“The King of the Grinders.”
Pivot & Texture