All posts tagged "Craig Powell"
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TOPS Celebrates 20th Anniversary Early with Rerelease of Steel Eagle
TOPS is bringing out an updated version of its first-ever model, the Steel Eagle. The rerelease comes just ahead of the company’s 20th anniversary in...
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TOPS Brings Back the Wind Runner Line
TOPS is bringing the Wind Runner line out of retirement with a new release called the Snake River Editions. The company hopes to leverage its...
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TOPS Launches Missile Strike After Vet’s 7-Year Tour
The TOPS Missile Strike is the latest combat knife released by the Idaho-based company. The new knife exhibits an aggressive, tactical profile drawn up specifically...
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TOPS Taps GM for Barong-style Machete
After recently releasing Grandpa’s Ax, designed by TOPS Knives CEO Leo Espinoza’s father, the company continues to tap into the minds of those closest to them. This...
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TOPS Grandpa’s Ax Takes Down the Competition
TOPS’ latest release brings Grandpa’s Ax to life. The full-tang belt ax is named after its designer, TOPS President Leo Espinoza’s father. Tool making is...
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TOPS Tanimboca a Fresh Take on the Scandinavian Puukko
TOPS Knives is bringing a new kind of cutting tool into their increasingly diverse lineup with the Tanimboca Puukko. Designed by Goran Mihajlovic, a Serbian...
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TOPS Releasing Pre-Production Fieldcraft Folder Next Tuesday
Next Tuesday, a small batch of Pre-Production Fieldcraft Folders will be released on the TOPS Knives website. It will be the first opportunity for fans to get...
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TOPS Knives Targets Your Kitchen with FMS XL
TOPS has just released the Frog Market Special XL, the plus-sized follow-up to the original FMS. The company’s last release, the El Chete, emphasized chopping muscle,...
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TOPS Unleashes El Chete for Heavy Duty Chopping
TOPS just unleashed El Chete, a king-sized machete built for chopping. Designed by TOPS President Leo Espinoza, El Chete has a massive, foot-long blade and a...
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TOPS Serves Up the Bartender Defender XL
If you love blades and beer, the new Bartender Defender XL might just be your knife. The neck knife/bottle opener combo is the sequel to the Bartender Defender. Bartenders...
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TOPS C.U.T. 4.0 Voted Best New Fixed Blade for EDC 2016
Presented by: Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpeners The KnifeNews Dealers’ Choice Awards recognize extraordinary achievement in the production knife world. KnifeNews turned to knife...
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TOPS Introduces Stainless BOBs, Declares October the “Month of Options”
“October is going to be a month of options from TOPS Knives,” says Marketing Director Craig Powell. “We have plenty of releases coming that give coating, handle,...
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TOPS Releases Field-Proven Bladed Spork and Tactical Razor
Following TOPS Knives Viking-inspired Vi Ax announcement earlier this month, on the last day of August we see yet another side of the prolific Idaho-based knife maker....
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Shop Talk: 7Forge Knives Goes from Science Project to Semi-Production
In the last five years, the knife making scene has absolutely exploded, with dozens upon dozens of new names, new talents, and new knives. One shop that gained a...
Grant Hawk Passes Away at 82
Hawk Knives delivered deeply sad news to the knife world yesterday: Grant Hawk, one of the most innovative, boundary-pushing knife makers of the 20th century, passed away earlier this...
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DBK Bushcraft’s First We Knife Collab Surfaces for Christmas
Well the year is winding down, but We Knife Co. is keeping up its steady, seemingly unbreakable pace. They’ve got their first collaboration with DBK Bushcraft slated to drop...
Bushcraft Blade is on the Menu at Real Steel This Winter
There must be something in the fall/early winter air that makes people think of demanding outdoor expeditions, because we’ve seen a notable uptick in bushcraft-style releases lately. Latest exhibit...
GiantMouse Branches out the Nimbus Line with New Scandi Grind Option
GiantMouse has returned to the Nimbus for a fourth version this year – really an expansion of the V3 that came out in 2023. The Nimbus V3 Scandi as...
Boker Magnum Line Gets New Gent’s Folder with the Empery
We cover a lot of Boker stuff here, most of it from the highly prolific company’s range Boker Plus line – but Boker also has an entry-level label called...
Bestech Brings Big Bad Vestige out with Justin Lundquist
Catch a glimpse of the latest Justin Lundquist production design, coming out this time via Bestech. The Vestige delivers a thoroughly modern vision of some very classic traditional knife...
