Whats the best production flipper

duro said:
I don't know about a tank of a folder on the 0561. It does look like one though. Mine is brand new and has blade play, I can even disengage the lock with my hands.....Also, I see a lot on the forums about people having issues with their 0560/61's.

The Southard. No one has posted an issue yet on this forum. I know the lock up on mine is rock solid. It's certainly a heavy duty folder.
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Yea I could disengage the lock if I push the lock bar over as well...

I would not hesitate to buy another 0560, it was a great knife.

As many have stated, it depends on your preferences, for a tank of a knife the 0300 is hard to beat. For a longer more elegant HD folder, the 0560 is king. For a great compact edc, the Southard reigns.

This is of course ignoring mid techs being that the question is best production flipper.
 
duro said:
I don't know about a tank of a folder on the 0561. It does look like one though. Mine is brand new and has blade play, I can even disengage the lock with my hands.....Also, I see a lot on the forums about people having issues with their 0560/61's.

The Southard. No one has posted an issue yet on this forum. I know the lock up on mine is rock solid. It's certainly a heavy duty folder.
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Ive had absolutely no problems with my 0561 still rock solid lock up with 0blade play in any direction and a strong detent that makes it flip nicely
 
No TiLT love??? :)

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brownshoe said:
Crkt Eros. Smooth, sharp, ti handle, frame lock, fast, $125
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I have the Eros and really like it. I like it so much that if you count Ripples, I have five or six of them, I think (all the way down to the aluminum walmart ripple, through the regular and ti-finish steel ripples, up to the ti Eros). I like non-assisted flippers, so I've got most of the common popular options like the Skyline as well. It's hard to beat the Skyline or a Ripple at the low end (especially since CRKT has apparently fixed some of the fit and finish issues, removed the over aggressive flipper jimping and such on the 2013 line).

I still have to vote Southard overall for production knives, though, and I'm generally a Spyderco-hater, so that's saying something.
 
Just got a Southard a few hours ago. I, obviously, can't form a well rounded opinion yet, but so far it's nice. In all honesty I feel that the hype on the knife is bigger than reality, but the quality is very much there. The blade is perfectly centered, everything is exactly as it should be, and yet I'm still very much looking forward to getting the Benchmade 300sn. I know that I'll be able to flip it without any problem, and I just have a strong suspicion that it hasn't received much praise in the shadow of the Southard. The only reason I don't have one yet is because I decided that I needed the Contego first, but since that should ship today I have my crosshair firmly on the axis flipper.

Once I have both the Southard and 300sn in hand expect a thorough and very honest comparo with lots of pics.
 
duro said:
I don't know about a tank of a folder on the 0561. It does look like one though. Mine is brand new and has blade play, I can even disengage the lock with my hands.....Also, I see a lot on the forums about people having issues with their 0560/61's.

The Southard. No one has posted an issue yet on this forum. I know the lock up on mine is rock solid. It's certainly a heavy duty folder.
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And here he goes again... You do all that to yourself duro, stop blaming the knife.
 
Strigamort said:
.. and yet I'm still very much looking forward to getting the Benchmade 300sn. I know that I'll be able to flip it without any problem, and I just have a strong suspicion that it hasn't received much praise in the shadow of the Southard.
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The 300sn is interesting as it's a first, but it simply does not flip like the Southard. Felt more like my Skyline as it needs a bit of help getting going due to the weak detent. Doesn't make it a bad knife in the least but not on the same level flipper-wise.
 
Silly me. I keep going back to the Walmart Ripple. I think I paid $30.00 for mine. And it deploys as quickly as any manual flipper I've ever seen, including the Southard.

Topcatpt said:
Manual flippers medium sized is what I'm looking for don't care about the lock style.
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OK. So we know you want a medium-sized, production, manual flipper and you don't care how it locks up. Does country of origin matter? And what's your budget?
 
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bld522 said:
Silly me. I keep going back to the Walmart Ripple. I think I paid $30.00 for mine. And it deploys as quickly as any manual flipper I've ever seen, including the Southard.
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Ha, you got robbed--I think mine was only $24.99 ;)

I still carry that one occasionally. After I sanded down all the rough spots on the frame and toned down the jimping on the flipper, it turned out to be one of my favorite inexpensive knives ever. I just pulled it from the drawer and it flicks out with a really satisfying little snap.
 
Yep. Between the Walmart Aluminum Ripple and the XM-24, I'd say we've covered the cost spectrum, all right. :D
 
Junkyard Dog, has them all beat. Super smooth, USA made, thick linerlock, kershaw's warranty, different varieties. Fughetaboudit.
 
The Brad Southard is nice, but a bit light even with a thick blade. My ZT 0350 is very nice and heavy-duty in feel.
 
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