Ken Palkow

Ken Palkow is a prop fabricator who created several items including the Federation phasers and alien weapons for . According to the IMDb, Palkow also created props for .
Founded in 1992, Palkow is the owner and only employee of the company Kenney's Custom Props, LLC specialized in creating special effects, weapons and hand-held props for film and television productions and located in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
Among his early work in the film and television industry are creations for Ronald D. Moore's (2009-2010, starring Paula Malcomson and Brian Markinson), the Fringe episode "Brown Betty" (2010, written and produced by Akiva Goldsman, created and produced by J.J. Abrams, produced by Bryan Burk, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, music by Michael Giacchino, and casting by April Webster), and (2010).
After he worked on (2011, produced and teleplay by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and produced by April Nocifora), Palkow created the serum canisters for (2011), the weapons used by in (2012, characters co-created by Kevin Grevioux), and colonial sidearms for the television movie Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012, story and produced by Bradley Thompson and David Weddle and starring John Pyper-Ferguson and Brian Markinson).
Further projects include the third season of (2011, created by Jane Espenson), (2011, starring Simon Pegg), (2013), the television series Motive (2013) and Continuum (2012-2014, starring Rachel Nichols), (2013), (2013) and Ender's Game (2013), and Bryan Singer's (2014, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer).
He created the riptide sword for (2013), the weapons for (2014), Karl Urban's weapons and props for (2013-2014), several hand-held props and weapons for (2014), and the gold tablets of Ahkmenrah for (2014).
More recent projects as prop fabricator include the television pilot for The Man in the High Castle (2015), (2014-2015), the television movie Firestorm (2015), (2016, executive produced by Stan Lee), and (2016, with concept artists Christopher S. Ross and Raj Rihal).
== External links ==
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