TOPS is taking a crack at a slipjoint with their latest release, the Tex Creek. Although it is outside of the usual TOPS wheelhouse, the Tex Creek has the house style in spades – due in no small part to being designed by company CEO Leo Espinoza.
Say, what is it with traditional knives being named after rivers and creeks? Maybe, back in the earliest days of folding knife design, some craftsman put the finishing touches on one of the first every slippies and sat to think about what to call his newest creation. Just when all marketing hope seemed lost, he looked out his window at a nearby river – and inspiration struck, and a centuries-long tradition unknowingly started.
Designed in Idaho, made in Italy by Fox.
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