All posts tagged "TOPS"
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TOPS Enchantor is a Portable Self-Defense Option
TOPS has another new fixed blade on shelves, the Colin Despins designed Enchantor. This one lands in the tactical knife genre, albeit with the intention...
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TOPS River Rat Goes with the Flow
The TOPS releases continue to flow, much like a river – and, hey, wouldn’t you know it, the name of a new release from the...
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I Stick Mini Sticks to What Works, but Shrinks It Down
TOPS has another new knife on the market this month, the I Stick Mini. TOPS historians will know that this one is a shrunk-down version...
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TOPS Taps Laci Szabo for Shirodagga Defensive Knife
Tactical knife legend Laci Szabo has contributed a new model to the 2026 TOPS lineup. It’s called the Shirodagga, and in addition to a memorable...
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TOPS Badger Creek Makes Debut After a Long Wait
After waiting for its chance for nine years, the TOPS Badger Creek has hit the shelves at last. It’s an outdoors task-smasher with a bold...
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Second Dive Knife Rises from the River for TOPS
Last week we covered the new TOPS Sidekick Diver, a production model that originated as a winner in the Idaho company’s annual employee design contest....
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TOPS Diver-sify’s Portfolio with Newest Employee Knife
TOPS is known for many things, but one of their more recent claims to fame is the annual employee design challenge, which has resulted this...
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TOPS Upswarm is a Bit Like a Karambit
Compact self-defense is the name of the game with the latest blade out of TOPS Knives’s Idaho Falls workshop. The Upswarm‘s unique blade shape actually...
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TOPS and OKC Team Up for New Version of Old Favorite
Last in our recent spate of TOPS coverage is the Ontario XL Hunter. Whereas the last few new for 2026 TOPS pieces were in-house designs,...
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El Chete Family Grows Again This Year
TOPS is continuing its shrinking-down of famous models with the Lil Chete. As the name implies, the Lil Chete brings the famous big chopper’s design...
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TOPS El Chappito: Cutest Cleaver on the Market?
Fresh off the line from TOPS we’ve got El Chappito, the frankly adorable, shrunk-down, EDC-sized brother of the company’s famous heavy duty cleaver. El Chappo...
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TOPS Takes Tex Creek to Slipjoint Station
TOPS is taking a crack at a slipjoint with their latest release, the Tex Creek. Although it is outside of the usual TOPS wheelhouse, the...
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TOPS Wolf Pax is a Comfortable and Compact Woods Ax
TOPS has a new ax to grind – well, okay, to be fair they’ve already ground it, because it’s out now. It’s called the Wolf...
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TOPS Creates the First-Ever Tick You Will Want to Carry Around with You
Curious about the EDC fixed blade concept? There’s a new entry in the genre rolling out from TOPS Knives as we speak. Meet the Tick,...
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TOPS Brings Bram Frank’s Abaniko into 2025 Lineup
As the temperatures rise, TOPS’s release schedule has quickened. Not so long after the reveal of the tactical yet practical Ephyra, there comes another martially...
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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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Paul Munko Fine Tunes the Melody for Kizer
Designer Paul Munko’s latest production collab is coming out courtesy of Kizer. Called the Melody, it is a modern slipjoint with a fluid profile and uncommon blade shape. Munko...
Eureka! Inspiration Strikes at Jack Wolf
Next up from Jack Wolf Knives: the Eureka, a new single blade jack knife that will coming out under the Gateway series – which means entry level, but enthusiast-approved,...
KA-BAR E.P.T. Available N.O.W.
KA-BAR’s latest piece is another Allen Elishewitz collaboration, the aptly-named Elishewitz Pocket Tool or EPT. This is an EDCable fixed blade with sensible cutting geometry and some unique features...
Shop Talk: Samuel Riner on Homemade Micarta, Custom Equipment, and the Penny Test
Samuel Riner may only be in his mid-20s, but he already has more than a decade of knifemaking experience under his belt – and his goal this year is...
Boker Plus Kazy Keeps the Small EDC Knife Flame Alive
Custom knife maker Gabriel Berthelemy is the creative mind behind a brand new Boker Plus model, the Kazy. Built along proven dimensions and with tried-and-true user-friendly philosophies, the Kazy...
