Sidearms & Scatterguns Hogue knives & TOPS knives

[stello1001]

Anyone own any of those two? Some of them seemed rather attractive to me and figured maybe I could buy one some time down the road. Specifically, I was looking at fixed blades. Can anybody comment on their quality and maybe their durability?
Thanks,

Serg

 

[mongoosesnipe]

i have a TOPS street scalpel, great blade for what it is

 

[a1-equipment]

Both a very nice blades.
Most of the tops blades are 1095 carbon steel. It’s very durable and tough and is easily sharpend in the field. It’s an old school steel. With the huge line models each are purpose designed for certain thing.

Hogue has more advanced metals and designs are more 1 blade that is good at a lot of things but not purpose for one thing.

 

[Genin]

I use tops knives. An apache falcon is my current field blade. I think they are very robust quality blades.

 

[Damnthatthingispointy]

I use to make them. I worked at tops a few months back. They are great quality knives.