All posts tagged "TOPS"
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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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TOPS Knives Founder Passes Away
Last week TOPS Knives made a sad announcement: company founder Mike Fuller passed away earlier this month. Fuller founded TOPS in 1998. Originally intended as...
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TOPS Gives Seax Design New Life with Storm Vector
TOPS has just released the Storm Vector, the latest big, bad fixed blade from the Idaho Falls-based manufacturer. The Storm Vector takes the seax format...
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TOPS Dicer Kitchen Knife Set Finally Arrives
After first showing up on the radar in 2019, the full TOPS Dicer Set has arrived at last. These knives comprise the first full line...
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TOPS Expands Ax Lineup with Ucon Hawk
Less than a week after dropping the Mini Tanimboca Puukko, TOPS is rolling out another release. This time it’s the Ucon Hawk, a hatchet that...
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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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Christmas Shipping Special and Knife Deals Live at KSF
: Updated story with prices for Next Day Air shipping discounts Sponsored by: KnivesShipFree Christmas is nearly here, and the online shopping rush is in full swing; we’ll...
Shop Talk: Jess Hoffman’s Modern Knives Learn from the Classics
Wisconsin-based custom maker Jess Hoffman has been on a knifemaking journey for the last twelve years, honing his craft and building a portfolio of hardworking, thoughtfully-designed fixed blades. Hoffman’s...
Vosteed Corgi Returns with New Wheeler Mechanism in Place
Vosteed Cutlery has released a surprise just ahead of Christmas and the end of 2024. The Corgi V sees the design team giving one of their existing models a...
Kombou’s Prydwen Takes its Name from a Famous Virtual Vessel
The Bestech Excentric debuted recently, a collaboration model between Toni Tietzel of TNT Knives and Grzegorz Grabarski, AKA Kombou. Well, Grabarski has been a busy man, and has another...
Two Custom World Heavyweights Collaborate on Wild Bestech Excentric
Bestech is poised to release a new collaboration that is, itself, a collaboration model. Meet the Excentric, which results from the partnership of Grzegorz Grabarski, AKA Kombou Designs, and...
