HOLY COW !!! Have you seen this....

All they would really have to do is make everything 70% current thickness and make the blade a normal spearpoint with the spine starting where the inscription is. It would instantly perform better and look better, take up less space in a pocket, cut the weight down, etc.

The very good handle design is let down by the rest of it and I don't get how someone who has spent a good amount of time with knives would make the mistakes...unless they were told to make it more Rambo and dumbed down for marketing.
 
marcinek said:
Really. You gotta love TOPs. "Warning: This knife's for real men only! Not oozing testosterone? Don't even think about buying it, pansy."
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Most of us aren't pansies, we just like to be able to use our pockets, and be able to reach into them as well.
 
Robert Carter said:
Most of us aren't pansies, we just like to be able to use our pockets, and be able to reach into them as well.
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Well...I guess if you're not man enough to carry that knife...then TOPs doesn't want you to buy it.

:D

I do just love that marketing move. I'm sure it works, or we wouldn't see it so often.

"I'll show TOPs who's 'bad*ss enough'! I'll buy their silly knife! How you like that, TOPs...in your face!"
 
Must be one of the uggliest knifes I've seen. Reminds me of a folding brick. The trend of "biggest baddest most brutal" folder stretch the definition of a knife. :-)
 
I may be wrong, but I think they intend for you to drop it in a sock so you can swing it at potential foes.

Tops:
"... cause they're hard to the core." :rolleyes:
 
I can't take TOPS seriously until they work on their spelling, grammar, and reduce the Extreme Force Operator ad-copy.

THE SUCCESS OF OUR ORIGINAL
X CEST ALPHA (FIXED BLADE), WAS VERY POSITIVE IN
ITS PERFORMANCE FOR FIELD OPERATORS.
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And get rid of the capitalization, too.

IT HAS TAKEN TOPS KNIVES A GOOD YEAR TO REFINE,
TWEEK AND FIELD TEST OUR NEWEST ADDITION,
THE ‘X CEST DELTA’. WITH ITS RUGGED GOOD LOOKS
ACCOMPANYING ITS’ MULTI USE FIELD ABILITIES
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Sorry, it took me a second to post as I puked in my mouth looking at it. Good Gawd! They sure don't try to add style to it, do they. I see a potbelly piggish look to it. Shame. Just a crying shame.......
 
TwinStick said:
The new TOPS folder: XCEST DELTA ??? Folder with a 3/16" thick blade & 15/16" handle width. Seems like a heck of a bomb-proof folder. :thumbup: WAYYYY pricey though, at least their MSRP is.

Who will be the first ?
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Is it really a folder? All I'm finding on google is a short fixed blade with a survival kit. 3/16-inch doesn't sound that unusual for a sheath knife. And the price was only a little over $100 for the package. Seemed fair to me.
 
Its a folding club that is trying to be a knife. Personally, I'd rather just carry a sap. The good news is: Tops offers 286 different products, so according to the law of averages, at least a few must be worth owning.
 
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Misanthropia said:
But how am I supposed to open my bag of pop tarts with it? Every time I have a super beefy knife on me that can't accomplish basic real world tasks very well, I feel like a total doofus.
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My SmF has a 3/16" thick blade, and it opens Pop Tart bags just fine.
It even cuts other things like paper, cardboard and wood.:eek:
Of course, there WAS some edge reprofiling involved to improve it from the "edge more suited to digging rocks out with" it originally had.:D
 
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