What's your favorite ZT NON-assisted opening knife?

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I currently have a handful of Spyderco knives, and 2 ZT 0350's. I like my ZT's, but the coolness of the assisted opening is over.

I'd like to get a manual opening folder. So I was hoping to get some ideas of what ZT to look into.

Thanks!
 
I don't even know where to start.

All time favorite=ZT 0392 best all around ZT.
2. 0562 smoothest knife I have ever felt. Pure awesome.
3. 0560 great size for large hands. Rides great in the pocket.
4. Tie between 0452CF and 0620CF when you just need a bad ass knife.
5. 0450/0450CF best office carry.
6. 0566 de-assisted second best office carry. Great ergos even with large hands.

I will stop there but I could go on and on. Yeah I'm a ZT fanboy. I'm ok with myself to admit that.
 
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I love my ZT 0550 so much I got two of them. A BW version that wears a grey Terotuf scale from Bellablades that is my shower, and a standard gen 3 that is my user.

I've been thinking about getting an 0630 though when I get the extra money.
 
Hmm. All time favorite manual ZT would probably be the 0801S110V I had for a short while. Followed by the 0630, 0562, 0550, 0566CF (deassisted of course), and 0200. Those are just the ones I've owned. Handled a couple 0450s and they were nice too.

Edit: Pretty much every manual ZT I've handled has been quite nice once dialed in.
 
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My 0562CF is my best ZT and one of my favorite knives in my collection
With the 0566 that I lost 😡
 
0562 - smoothest
0452 - slimmest
0200 - tankest
0561 - largest
0801 - coolest
 
I've got to say I love ZT knives and own about a dozen of them, half assisted and half not. My 0550s (a generation 1 and a generation 2) really stand out. They are both at ZT right now for factory service but I carry that generation 1 a lot. I've got some custom scales inbound for those. I also picked up a 0900 recently and that is a great little knife too.

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Manual flipper or thumbstud? For thumbstud you only have one choice and that's the discontinued 0550 series with a 3.5" blade. It's a tank.

For manual flippers you have the small tank 0900 with a 2.75" blade length.

A step up and nice light EDC are 0450 and 0450CF with 3.25" blades. Also, at 3.25" is the more robust 0808. Soon 0456.

At 3.5"-3.6" you have a lot of choices: 0562, 0526CF, 0801, 0801BW, 0620, 0620CF, 0630 and 0095BW. Soon 0220.

Between 3.8"-4.1" you have 0909, 0804CF and 0452CF.
 
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Got quite a few i like, but the 0909 has really wowed me over. The build quality is fantastic for the price point. The size feels so small compared to the specs but in a good way. I like bigger folders but not always a big handle. the 0909 handle size is about perfect. This knife is a winner. The hinderer designs were nice, but this one beats 'em..and that is saying a lot.
 
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Manual flipper or thumbstud? For thumbstud you only have one choice and that's the discontinued 0550 series with a 3.5" blade. It's a tank.

For manual flippers you have the small tank 0900 with a 2.75" blade length.

A step up and nice light EDC are 0450 and 0450CF with 3.25" blades. Also, at 3.25" is the more robust 0808. Soon 0456.

At 3.5"-3.6" you have a lot of choices: 0562, 0526CF, 0801, 0801BW, 0620, 0620CF, 0630 and 0095BW. Soon 0220.

Between 3.8"-4.1" you have 0909, 0804CF and 0452CF.
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Manual flipper or thumb stud? Now that's something I had never thought of. I have no idea which one I'd prefer...
 
Will have to go along with many others and say 0550 (gen 3). The action is pure butter. This would have been my vote even before I saw that it has the top score in that crazy russian's (vininull) hard use testing. Search for it on youtube if you want to see what it had to go through to the top spot, its subtitled.
 
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