TOPS Pry Knife?

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Swankyswedgeman

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Saw this while browsing their website, looks "tacticool" but with some practicality built into it. Also comes with a mini prybar/punch tool. What do you guys think?
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Tops makes a lot of pry bars, some of them are pointed (shrugs). At least this looks more like a pry bar than a knife.

All in all Id rather have a Tops Prather Bowie
 
Why supply a pry bar with a pry-knife. Seems redundant to me. Why should I need to pry with my pry-knife when they give me a pry-bar with a better angle suited for the job? Maybe they need to supply these pry-bars with the regular knives, that way they can make the other knives thinner and better cutters! Just an observation, I don't own any Tops product.
 
It's what every tactitoolbox needs.
Actually, it wouldn't be a bad thing to have in your pickup.
 
Appealing idea for urban evasion kit perhaps. But if you have that thing in your car, why would you not just get regular prybar? More leverage, more power.
 
Honestly, I don't understand the rationale for the blunt prybar tip on a knife. It kills some of the innate functionality of a knife (by removing the point). I don't really think a knife should be designed around prying tasks, but that's just my opinion.
 
I was thinking that too, maybe it would be better to carry a "cat-claw" the size of this knife, along with your fixed blade.

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I own a Tops Lil' Roughneck, which comes from this same "sharpened prybar" school of thought.

If you can see past the over-the-top marketing, TOPS makes some good designs. They know how to make comfortable knife handles, and their QC is excellent.

In fact, the only substantial arguments against TOPS seems to be that their marketing is aimed at (people who want to be?) triple black Operators, and their prices are a little high for the steel they use. I can forgive them for that, because I'm impressed with their products, and will probably buy a few more in the future.

As for the pry-knife in particular, it would be easy for me to believe that they built it simply because they thought there was a market for it. Hell, look at the Tracker!

The thing is, the Tracker can actually be used to do what it says it will do. So I'm confident that this, unlikely creation, would stand up to very serious prying, and still retain it's edge. You might have to plan ahead a little in order to preserve that edge, but it could be done.
 
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