What's your favorite Spyderco flipper?

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So it just occurred to me that while nearly all of my knives are flippers, I don't have a single Spyderco flipper!

What is your favorite flipper offering from Spyderco?
 
The Southard is a very well made knife with excellent steel that happens to have a smooth flipping option.
 
Domino. Sold my Southard and haven't regretted it one bit. Handled the domino at a brick and mortar and passed. Tool my daughter to the toy store, then got 25 minutes toward back home on the interstate and had to turn around and grab it!
 
i own two southard's and two domino's,both are grate built flippers,but i feel that the domino is more practical in the every day world! and people don't seem to run away like on the southard,its the same thing with my PM2 people just don't like the looks of it!so i tend not to carry it,so i vote domino for EDC flipper.;)
 
Don't own a single one and I kinda doubt that I will until they pull off the Southard comp lock flipper, but, just based on handling them, the Mantra 1 by a long shot. Nothing against any of the following knives, but the Southard, Positron and Rubicon all feel like a knife that's gotten the Spyderco treatment, not a real Spyderco knife, if that makes any sense. The Domino and Dice ended up, to me, kind of feeling like "Me too!" knives. Very good, but knives that felt like they were put out to cash in on the flipper trend rather than designed as flippers from the ground up, again, just my opinion.

For me, the Mantra 1 is the first real Spyderco flipper. It's undeniably a Spyderco with nothing extraneous, no bells or whistles that have become so in demand, just a knife that feels great in the hand, flips open fluidly and looks like it will be one hell of a slicer. There are some definite exceptions *cough* Chinook *cough* but in-house, function before form knives are kind of 'home' for me where Spydies are concerned and the Mantra 1 does that better than any of their other flippers so far.
 
I don't have any flippers either. But, the one I dream of owning, IS the Southard!!
 
Domino for me. I don't have a Mantra yet. The Positron is a nice knife, but not a great flipper. The Dom embodies all the standard Spyderco features (i.e. Fully functional Spydie hole and style), and yet is an amazing flipper to boot.
 
I have a Domino, blue twill, and an all black Southard.........I couldn't choose one over the other.
I'm able to open the Southard with the flipper or the hole and it is so ridiculous smooth it's scary! It's my fav Spydie!
The Domino, like was stated earlier, is a little more sheeple friendly. Fantastic flipper and just a cool knife!
I love both!
Joe
 
I have not handled other spyderco flippers, but love my southard. With the addition of a cf scale, I have easy access to the spydie hole and I love the blade shape.
 
i really like my mantra 2. however i can't compare it to any of the other models as i don't own them. the mantra is great and i like the non leaf shaped blade. it is not a "super" flipper, it can actually fail to deploy if you don't trigger it right. however, for me it is a huge step up from my 0770cf. the assist was too forceful and deassisted it was horrible.
so after havin tried it i am rather interested in trying another spyderco flipper.
 
I have 2 dominos a dice and mantra 2. For straight flipping action the Domino does it very well. Southard never interested me for whatever reason? I prefer to edc the Dice and Manta more just because of size.
 
I have the Mantra, Mantra2, Positron, mini-Southard, Dice, and Domino, and carry one of the Mantras almost every day. Love em all, but there's something perfect about both Mantras for me. mini-Southard comes in second, but thats not factory issue.
 
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