How Military & Law Enforcement KNIVES are MADE | TOPS Knives

[@Battlbox]

What’s the one TOPS Knife model you’d trust the most for your everyday carry or survival kit?

[@joelkreuter5647]

Iraq JAC

[@johnb9045]

I EDC a TOPS Mini Extractor in scout position. Not too big, not too small, it's just a perfect, bulletproof blade for EDC.

[@artiknanook9189]

Mini Scandi. Love it.

[@MountainMenAxes]

Brakkimo or BOB in 154cm

[@monsterdeluxe2751]

Silent Hero 4 is tough to beat.

[@jesstrofunk]

A friend of mine worked for Tops and got me a tour. Everything in this video is true. The staff were all super cool and it was a great experience. Tops are the only knives I buy now. I have a few and my wife uses their kitchen knives. Never had an issue with any of them.

[@CarlosRodriguez-kb9jc]

I’m 60 years old. I’ve served 20 years in the military and 15 as a DOD contractor. I’ve had many knives throughout my years of service. To this date, TOPS knives are the best that I’ve found. My favorites are Tex Creek 69, Fieldcraft by BOB (have 3 of them), street scalpel 2.0, szabo express, and the wild pig hunter.

[@ayobali0121]

I'm from the UK and Tops are the best at what they do especially with their heat treatment on the steel they use🥰 nobody else can do the same with that steel. In my book they are one of the best knife manufacturers in the world.

[@aurelianobuendia5360]

pls dude their HT is pretty generic

[@-joe-davidson]

I really appreciate American Made knife manufacturing. Well worth the price.

[@onionhead5780]

I never realized they make everything in house. Knife, scales, sheath. Impressive as hell.

[@drewdonald6260]

I love the combination of modern technology and genuine craftsmanship! You can see they take pride in their work. I thought it would be more automated... I'm glad it wasn't. Thanks for the tour.

[@cityfeetB3]

I hope this means there is a TOPS knife in our future

[@chrislayfield13]

Came here to say this lol😂

[@samfiroozi4532]

I have over 40 Tops knives in my knife collection and I love every one of them.

[@jaynewelch1472]

Top's knifes are top of the Line

[@dalewalker5845]

I don't own any Tops knives But, I drool whenever I see them. Awesome video

[@AnthonyAwaken]

One of the best brands out there, hands down. Craig is such a nice, down to earth, guy as well.

[@Novice_At_Life]

Fabulous behind the scenes look. Thanks!

[@Battlbox]

Thanks for watching!

[@henrycalhoun5809]

quite impressed. will buy one for sure.

[@jeremyp2295]

Tops knives is the only company that I will buy a 1095 blade from no one else can do it like tops.

[@stevenhall1097]

Nice tour of the tops facilities. To many to choose which one to get.

[@ghozt9119]

Very nice tour of Tops production plant. Thanks BATTLEBOX

[@The66Leadfoot]

Thanks for the tour! Going to move the Delta Unit 3 and the Prather War Bowie to the top of my list.

[@Battlbox]

Thanks for watching!

[@pmbayer8]

Thanks for this amazing video, I’ve been a Tops Knives fan since The Hunted.

[@babarama283]

Santa brought me an Apache Dawn w/ Rocky Mountain grip for Christmas!

[@dougroll8139]

Awesome video! I'm going to add a Tops knife to my collection this year. 🇺🇲👍😎

[@jimsanchez2284]

Bought my first Tops at a NRA annual meeting back in 2001. Steel Eagle. Great knives.

[@fifitifilou556]

Super visite ! Merci 👍🇨🇵

[@JeffreyBevill]

Tops is my favorite knife manufacturer. I’d be in hog heaven if I got a tour!!!!

[@StaunchIndustries]

LOVE IT!

[@anfielddragon5320]

Well edited video. Great company.

[@mattewclubb5882]

I really wonder how much they make!

[@oldcloud2564]

Я из России, Крым, есть не сколько ножей этой марки, качество на высоком уровне. Удобные, продуманные, хорошие материалы. Радуют. Так держать.

[@benbrown5159]

You should visit a factory that makes the garbage truck stop knives that ship out in the Battlboxes 😂.

[@lakepostell6912]

Top of the wave😊😊😊

[@hakan65256]

I can see that all the processes that need to be done to maintain the quality of the knives you produce are done, but your factory is very disorganized and complicated. As German Bosch factories and Japanese Toyota factories do, you need to organize the material flow in your processes and eliminate the irregularity in your factory by doing 5S Visual Factory projects, which are one of the tools of Lean Production. In this way, you can eliminate waste and labor inefficiency in your factory. You can provide a perfect visual production feast for the person who visits your factory for the first time.

[@kenc8945]

Great video...

[@stephenfarmer7724]

Nice to see a union jack flying in your finishing shop! Love my B.O.B. (the fero striker not so much) but that's nothing.

[@stephenfarmer7724]

And before someone tells me it's a union flag. its only a union jack when it's on a ship. Thank you for that. I didn't know that, 😊 but I will ALWAYS call it the union jack.

[@Genesislights]

Did TOPS bevel grind with The CNC Haas?? Wicked!

[@ms.annthrope415]

Have their 107C Steel Eagle, Stryker, one of their first folders, the CSR folder buck, and.several Slysteel desgned, made by Tops, Skeletal, Spectre Combar Survival, and the Cuma kukri. Along with Benchmade and Hogue Tops knives are then ones i trust when things go bad. I lice 2.1/2 hours from their factory. I wish they have a factory store like Benchmade as no dealer will carry every model. Been to abenchmade sevwal times at tbeir factory and store. Can buy any of tbeir current models and hzce my Benchmades sharpened in 10 minutes.

[@xman870096]

I'm confused... They 'heat treat' every knife by hand???....There aren't enough hours in a day!?!?

[@-joe-davidson]

2:04 Weird hearing a knife manufacturer refer to a fuller as a "blood groove" this day and age.

[@MrStanwillis]

WOW! Idaho is still OK.

[@Genesislights]

Looks very normal to me compared to the neighbor to the west

[@jammbbs1688]

I wanna know there average time for doing the bevels

[@branni6538]

I have a steel eagle with a saw toothed back. Its an exceptional survival tool. Sadly the knife laws are crap here in the UK so it cannot be legally taken outside anymore.

[@artiknanook9189]

Really nice vid. Thanks. Next time, bring with you a guy named JoeX, that will be epic.

[@hillbillyfromtheswamp6223]

Yeah Joe isn't much a fan of Tops knives

[@TrentCostello-s4h]

Prather war bowie 🎉 wild pig hunter ❤

[@jasonlewis6914]

It’s a very addicting habit collecting knives that and flashlights they go hand and hand. I have almost a 100 of each lol 😆

[@AndrewTa530]

Hobo Shoestring????

[@Utoobhero]

That would be kind of cool. Dollar bill Micarta!

[@JMark-zk5pj]

What is a law enforcement knife?

[@stuartmarkman769]

Math news. A dollar bill is .003 " thick. so stack em up.

Surface grinder.

[@1987gnXtreme]

How thick is a Dollar bill again? I don't think so.

[@musicplusink]

Health is wealth… not one face mask of the people grinding lol good knives though

[@nickmartino2839]

" compared to other knife companies "!!!!!!?????? Which knife companies are you referring to exactly???? I'm actually curious!!????

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[@อรอนงค์จันทร์แดง-ษ1ฆ]

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[@KenDerrick-ur8vq]

Too nice and expensive for a KOTM

[@richardc6269]

Some of them get nervous being on camera. 🤔🤔 One answer for that is ignorance, bigotry, and hate.

[@BladesRKing]

Explain

[@richardc6269]

I am 99% sure that there's a few workers there that just might show how they feel about workers from across the southern border. Or being recognized by the authorities for lack of a green card. I wouldn't bet the house, but I'd sure drop a c-note on the counter.

[@richardc6269]

@@BladesRKing I added to the wrong place.

[@andrewkeeton3627]

Tops knives always seem to be just gimmicky enough to leave something to be desired. Like the ferro notch instead a 9O degree spine for example. I know the “differential heat treat” and all that. IMO it just sounds cool. The only knife I’ve ever bent permanently was the BOB, thanks to their heat treat. If you snap a 3/16” knife, you’re obviously using it for unintended purposes. That extra step for the notch and the extra time it takes to treat only part of the blade drive up cost due to time. It’s 1095 with micarta. That’s it. Feels like they take unnecessary extra steps because they think they know more. More steps = more money. Edit: remember this guy is a corporate salesman for battlebox. He might not even like TOPS, but they’ll pay him to tour their facility and make a video for content ($) to up their sales ($). All about marketing and money now, not actually the knife

[@ryanholloway5576]

Tops is cool but ima Tkell knife guy much better looking & functioning fixers. Only down side is the long wait

[@polishsharpshooter2876]

So he says about the band saw they don’t make them like that anymore. That’s true. But he’s manufacturing knives with cheap materials and cutting corners to make his products cheaper. Plastic sheaths, plastic handles, metal is cut from sheets instead of forged, laser engraved instead of hand engraved. There is no soul in the product. The old band saw has soul

[@BladesRKing]

You just described 99.5% of the modern knife companies.

[@ou75id32]

Lol a Pigsticker knock off copy of old Russian Kizlayar Phoenix model ...

[@sirham2191]

Great blade either way

[@andrewkeeton3627]

TOPS knives always seem to leave something to be desired, for me anyways. That being said, it’s good to see an American company doing so well

[@MichaelSquares]

No doubt, being military and law enforcement knives makes them extra special. Why not refer to them as hero knives.