Al mar sere history

American knife manufacturing company

Al Mar Knives is a production knife company headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon, United States. The company was established in by Al Mar and has a reputation for making tactical knives of innovative design.

While headquartered in the United States, Al Mar knives were made in Seki City of Japan from to ^[1]

Al Mar

Alfred Clark "Al" Mar was born in the US and is a son of Chinese immigrants. Mar served in a Special Forces Reserve unit and in the late s volunteered to serve in Vietnam with a special project using all-Asian Special Forces soldiers.

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The project was run in Okinawa where the 1st SFGA had a forward deployed battalion stationed and support assets. Mar was a non-commissioned officer and after serving in the Army, he earned a master's degree in industrial design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

His master's thesis was building and launching a working 2-man submarine. Upon graduating he