The Ivie is the 2025 addition to TOPS Employee Design Challenge series. This annual competition gives any TOPS employee the chance to become a knife designer, and this year’s model is a fetching EDC fixie designed by a knife enthusiast.
Surely, not everyone who works in the knife industry is a knife fan – but, we’d argue that it attracts a fair number of enthusiasts into the fold. Such is the case with Ivie designer Cody Ivie, who leveraged his own love of knives to create something with all the hallmarks of an enthusiast-friendly piece – starting from the top of the knife with the wharncliffe blade shape – a profile absolutely beloved by the knife cognoscenti.
EDC fixed blades are still super hot. I had the chance to handle this one at SHOT. I think it will do well.
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2025 TOPS Employee Design Challenge is a Wharnie Neck Knife
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