Tops Knives Sonoran: Designed By Survival Expert Desert Dave - Compact, Strong, Simple Knife Design
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2022
- Tops Knives Sonoran: Designed By Survival Expert - Compact, Strong, Simple Knife Design
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Every outdoorsman should experience the smell of the Sonoran Desert at dawn or after a rain. It is a rugged beautiful place.
TUCSON ARIZONA
Snowed out in the Sonoran where I was at recently. It’s a humbling place indeed
170 is the sugested price from TOPS I think, because I'm seeing it around the $120 mark at most knife outlets like BHQ. For $120, I'm seriously considering picking one up. It's a good looking knife, and I'm a TOPS fan, so definitely appealing to me.
eBay has them
Survival knife, bushcraft knife, hunting knife, people seem to put a lot of emphasis on placing knives in categories. Pick a knife you like, and use it. Pick 10 knives you like and use them. No reason to give any knife a category. Most survivalist type guys have moved down to small blades, but that doesn't mean you have to. Their skills can compensate for any short comings of a smaller knife.
Sheath needs a boot clip, I'm gonna use it for an inner city survival knife, River Quay survival.
David Holladay
Widely regarded as one of the country’s foremost educators in Stone Age living skills, David is a frequent lecturer, author, and consultant on primitive technologies, edible/medicinal plants, and pre-Columbian culture. He served for 18 years as head instructor at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School and was education director of Anasazi, a wilderness program for teens. David has served as a consultant for shows such as Cast Away, Survivorman, Man vs. Wild, Road Rules, and numerous others, and was featured on No Man’s Land, a History Channel production and also instructor to cody lundin and Matt Graham.
How cool you remember Dave from, Survivorman too. I memorized every episode of season 1. I can word from word his trips to Arizona and southern Utah where he met "desert Dave"
Thank you.
Toasted peanut butter and fluff is my go to. Sliced beans I would pass. Like how the blade swoops up. Nice sheath. My part of NH was close to 90. Enjoy the snow
Enjoyed the review. Thumbs up.
I really like the looks of this blade...
I like an acute (stabby) tip to my blades...it makes the blade more versatile.
Dave Holliday and the Late Mors Kochanski are 2 guys who if they design a knife you should pay attention ...Gonna get one had the Tops Puukko but the sheath wasn't the best glad they revisted the sheath on this one...awesome
I own a few Tops knives: El Chete, Kuma Kage, B.O.B. They are all good. This knife I would use as a skinning knife and believe it would do fine on about anything large or small. Thanks Tim for the video.
Oh stop showing off I can't get the Kuma Kage anywhere or the Viking machete lol
@@jerrydonquixote5927 Hello Jerry, I could not find it anywhere either. Fortunately for me, I got it from Aaron at Gideonstactical You Tube Channel as a give-a-way. I could hardly believe my luck. It is a monster blade and Aaron is a real stand up dude.
I like my Moraknivs. Very sturdy.
Agreed. Mora makes a great knife.
Not totally convinced for survival knife however I would like to try one just to see thanks Tim
Most of the time I have some strong reservations regarding one part or the other of the design. This knife is almost perfect, most of my minor qualms have to do with the handle. I wish is had more of a guard area, than what it appears to have. As you pointed out it's not ideal for large hands. They could resolve this by adding 3/4" to the handle, and maybe the same to the blade. Otherwise the handle slabs should be thickened by 1/8" and more contoured.
I hope you are doing very well Tim , why Tops never produce in different steels i have no idea why
I have numerous tops fieldcraft b.o.b (some stock, some modified) and the tops msk 2.5 (as part of a system in each of my 3 kits) ... they have been great knifes and I def like them a LOT better than mora, I just prefer that wider/deeper blade style of the b.o.b and the msk 2.5 is very sweet also. I wish they would go to a factory 90 degree spine but alas my solution was switching over to a simple 550 paracord necklace with a baylite scraper lol and thats been my set up for years now and tbh it saves wear and tear on knife spines (might not look cool on video, but who is recording video in a survival situation anyways). I also carry a tops bob as part of my homestead daily carry ... sometimes I will switch it out for a tbs grizzly which also has a wider/deeper blade style ... and every now and then i will even carry a mora bushcraft black or garberg and I usually pair it up with the mora eldris (I own way too many knives)
I'm a knifeophile myself. I don't even know how many I have.
@@David..832 I honestly would hate the thought of even counting them. And the sad part about it is, if I buy 1 and like it, I have to buy 3 more because I keep a kit in each vehicle and then one to carry .... I like things to be the same lol
Reminds me of a modern interpretation of a puukko
How does it compare to the TOPS Brakimo?
Like the knife but it kind of reminds me of the Cold Steel Finn Hawk.
Yes I can see that.
It's more of a fish and game knife that can be used if need be to do some simple bushcrafting. That upseep belly is great for gutting a fish and skinning animals esp small ones like rabbits. I find that those types of blades can be a tad bit annoying for wood work....Its doable but ya always feel like you can't get the right angle, atleast for me that's how I feel .
I have a tiny pukko that's very old with the same grind and shape its a fun knife but nothing and whittling is a struggle for my style.
It looks similar to the TOPS Tanimbocka puukko
Yeah its almost same knife i guess, but with trailing point
Why do you have such a short ferrocerium rod?
It’s my one I have on my keychain at all times.
To my mind, that is a woodsman knife rather than survival knife. It's a bit of a throwback to the days where the fixed blade was used for food prep qnd game processing while wood carving duties were handle by a pocket knife
Exactly! I think I have steak knives like this one.
No longer available….well that sucks!
this is when Tops looses a big sale , a small knife like this with close to 5/32 they could at least have produced it with either A2 or 154 cm with a higher hardness and a sharper spine there are enough knife users would have appreciated that and had more incentive to buy one
and for crying out loud make the extended tang a squared one instead of a round that is only useful for opening a can of paint
Cute knife. Not for me, but def dif
Mine was $119
Sooooo many knives are way too big these days. They did it right in Germany in the 60's
I prefer some sort of finger guard. Looks easy for your hand to slip up and get cut on this..l
Agreed. Had it been designed with one, I would have bought. I will just wait and see what else comes around.
Tops🤣 don't let Joe X get his hands on any of those🤣 "ping"
Steak knife
Exactly what I was thinking.
100% overrated steak knife
Flatten that spine and get rid of the trailing point and I'm in. Might just get one and do that myself. Very puukko-like....
cool blade wish the handles were non polished micarta still trade ya though 😉. I’d say it’s not a survival knife in most environments but for the desert where it won’t rust and u won’t be batoning or chopping much at all it would work Greaat!!!! Though I would like to see a sharper spine at least on the upper half 🥹.