All posts tagged "TOPS"
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New Field Dog Fixed Blade Comes from TOPS Employee
There’s a new fixed blade out from TOPS Knives, and it’s called the Field Dog. Created by a longtime employee, the Field Dog lives up...
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CRKT Brings Kaila Cumings on Board for U.S.-Made Fixed Blade
CRKT just showed the latest knife in its new for 2023 U.S. made series. This time (and for the first time) it’s a fixed blade,...
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TOPS Tac-Rake Takes Aim at Beard Grooming Market
TOPS is expanding its repertoire with today’s release, the Tac-Rake. This one takes inspiration from a TOPS folding knife but brings it back as a...
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New Laci Szabo Fixed Blade Turns up with TOPS
TOPS has a fresh new fixed blade design from Laci Szabo on deck. The Szabo Express, as it’s called, was inspired by the critical differences...
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Sheep Creek Wins Sheepsfoot-themed TOPS Employee Contest
TOPS just put out the Sheep Creek, the 2022 winner of their yearly employee knife design contest. The Sheep Creek takes advantage of the sheepsfoot...
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Sequel to TOPS Silent Hero Makes its Debut
TOPS has returned to a longstanding collaboration knife, the Anton du Plessis-designed Silent Hero, for a smaller version called the Silent Hero 4. This variant...
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TOPS Brings Plenty of Prototypes to the Table
If you’ve ever been to SHOT Show, you know that the TOPS booth is one of those must-see stops, with an absolute avalanche of prototypes...
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TOPS Bestia Voted Best Outdoors Fixed Blade 2021
Presented by: Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpeners The TOPS Bestia is the KnifeNews Readers’ Choice for Best New Outdoors Fixed Blade 2021! This creative...
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TOPS Sonoran Emerges from Pre-Production Wilderness
[UPDATED 11/15/21: Thanks to friend of the site No Name Bushcraft, we have corrected the article to reflect that the final production version of the...
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Argentinian Newcomer Teams up with TOPS
TOPS is bringing out a design from another first-time collaborator. The Hornero, a small knife with full-sized ergonomics from Argentinian designer Tomás Reynoso, is coming...
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TOPS Expands Axe Repertoire with High Impact
The string of TOPS releases continues with the High Impact, a new axe from the mind of company CEO Leo Espinoza. The High Impact earns...
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Houghton Era TOPS Brush Wolf Lopes into the Wild
The spate of releases from TOPS continues with the much-anticipated Brush Wolf, another long-anticipated 2020 SHOT Show blade. This knife is a collaboration with Houghton...
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TOPS Expands Culinary Category with First Filet Knife
TOPS is returning to the kitchen for its latest release, the aptly-named Filet Knife. This is the company’s first ever entry in the filet genre,...
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TOPS Bestia Finally Appears in the Wild
It has been a long wait, but the TOPS Bestia is available to consumers at last. This wild-looking mashup of kukri and chopper falls into...
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TOPS Breaks into Pikal Genre with the Unzipper
TOPS, most well-known for their hard use and outdoors fixed blade designs, is trying something new with a recent release. Meet the Unzipper, the company’s...
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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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2025 TOPS Employee Design Challenge is a Wharnie Neck Knife
The Ivie is the 2025 addition to TOPS Employee Design Challenge series. This annual competition gives any TOPS employee the chance to become a knife designer, and this year’s...
Civivi Elementum Slips into Non-Locking Category in Latest Transformation
Do you like the Elementum? What about slipjoints? One of Civivi’s first orders of business in 2025 is to release the Elementum Slipjoint, which combines the company’s eternally popular...
Kizer Continues to Showcase New Talent with Bamboo Front Flipper
February may have just begun, but it’s already a month that Kizer has been making the most of. They’ve just added several fresh designs to their lineup from new...
TOPS 2025 Knives are Here, Including the Massive Ginunting
The new for 2025 TOPS knives are here, and it’s hard not to start with the X16 Ginunting. This downright imposing chopper is descended from a Filipino farming implement...
Kizer and Bradley Diaz Exhume Gothic EDC for February
Kizer has brought in a new custom collaborator for one of their new 2025 releases, and it’s a creepy one. This is the Tomb, and it is a design...
