All posts tagged "TOPS"
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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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TOPS Follows up Tanimboca Puukko with Mini Sequel
TOPS has another new blade out: the Mini Tanimboca Puukko. This one follows in the footsteps of the full-sized Tanimboca Puukko, but the major reduction...
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TOPS 3 Pointer Ready for the Outdoors and Indoors
TOPS has just released the 3 Pointer fixed blade. As the name implies, the 3 Pointer caters to hunters and outdoorsmen, and it comes in...
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TOPS Cigar Cutter EDC Finally Appears in the Wild
More than a year after TOPS first teased a prototype of this knife, the 208 Clipper is now a production reality. This friction folder combines...
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Latest TOPS Pairing is a Karambit Cleaver and Bush Sword
TOPS has a new pair of knives available to wrap up April/kick off May. The Tidal Force is their latest riff on the cleaver-style knife,...
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TOPS Adds Second Blade Shape to Tac-Raze Line
TOPS is rolling out the Tac-Raze 2, a line expansion makes a few key changes to the original Tac-Raze. A different blade shape and handle...
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Matt Graham is Back with TOPS Earth Skills Machete
TOPS is releasing the Earth Skills Knife, a new machete design from a returning collaborator. The Earth Skills Knife is the second TOPS model from...
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TOPS Puts Out Small Knife, Big Knife Double Feature
TOPS is releasing two new knives this week: one from an outside collaborator and one from a TOPS team member. The A-Klub is a hard-hitting,...
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TOPS Releases Two Very Different Knives
TOPS let loose this week with the back-to-back releases of the Nata and the Bull Trout. These are two very different knives in terms of...
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TOPS Shrinks Fieldcraft for Fans of Smaller Fixed Blades
TOPS didn’t bring any new models to Blade this year, but they didn’t let the biggest midyear show stop them from releasing the Fieldcraft 3.5...
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TOPS Brings Out Smaller Sequel to SXB Knife
TOPS just dropped the SXS, or Skullcrusher Xtreme Sidekick, a smaller companion knife to the full-sized SXB. The new knife is designed to accompany its...
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TOPS Brings Out Karambit-Inspired Quickie
TOPS is rolling out one of the first products of 2019, the Quickie. Designed as a backup option in dangerous scenarios, the Quickie leverages a...
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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...
