I´ve been collecting knives for many years 30+years. Properly with a few exceptions all POS knives in the eyes of a community like this. BUT I have decided it´s time to change that, so for the last five month or so, I have been trying to pick a flipper knife for my collection. Flipper knife is new to me, up til now knifes with thumb knob is most common in my collection, except for a few cheaper knifes i have picked up to try the flipper concept. A assisted flipper from Haller and two small ones from Manker. I like the action, and have been looking into the following makers : Alphahunter, Rick hinderer, Microtech, Curtiss, Kirby Lambert, Darrel Ralph, Lightfoot , Rainy Vallotton, I know the last one is Auto, two way deploy, wish he would make a flipper too. I could keep up going through my lists of information here, but this should give you an ideer about the level of knife I´m looking for. But the more I have been looking the more confused I have become. By now I have a list of properly 30 - 50 knifes I need to own. Budget is 1500-2000 if it will be necessary some more. I would appreciate some input on picking the first descent flipper and also the best flipper at this price range. I have been trying to reach out to some of the Makers I was interested in, but none of them even bothered to write back, not even a "polite fuck you My time is to valuable for newbis like you" just plain nothing. Little disappointing for me to find out the level of interest they have in me, as a possible future costumer. Even though I specifically requested them in a polite way to decline my request on E-mail. That way I wouldn't be waiting for something that would never happen. Was I out of line asking them in the first place, I don´t know?. But for sure it will not happen again. I really hope all this writing will lead me to a more productive and positive result inhere 
