YOUR most expensive production folder?

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AlphaDog86

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Someone started a thread asking what people’s individual threshold was for a user vs. safe queen. It got me thinking because I don’t let price dictate whether I carry/use a knife or not. I do however limit myself to the production market to somewhat keep my spending under control:) So my question is what is currently the most expensive production folder you own?
 
I personally haven’t delved into the high end world of production or customs...yet.

I limit my knife purchases to around $150 at this point in my life, and I like to use them often. So something like the Spyderco Gayle Bradley is on the upper tier for me.

I say this today, but CRK has been slowly luring me in. The allure of exacting tolerances and encouraged disassembly has my interest piqued.
 
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These two are pretty much neck and neck for that title; however, I bought the Benchmade Anthem on sale up here above US MAP pricing in Canada (it was $50CAD off at the time of purchase), and the CGG Small Sebenza I bought at full price at a US dealer. I also had to pay tax on it when I brought it over the border though, so I guess technically the Small Sebenza is currently the most expensive piece in my collection/rotation. Old pics of both:

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LionSteel Roundhead, just edging out the Shuffle, both in white CF. Also my Feist and a Boker Plus Tuxedo Mini Kwaiken. All but the Shuffle are within a dollar of each other.
 
I have added some knives to my collection, (fixed and folders), that have cost me in the $150 to $160 range. And, that is where my upper price limit is self set. That does not mean that some of my knives are not worth more on the open market, but only what I can self justify spending on any one of my "gadgets" for my collection (guns are an exception, where $1000 has been the limit there).
It's not a right or wrong thing, it's just what I feel works for me, (setting that limit on any one knife). I actually only collect standard production, not customs, so that class of knives is not on my radar.
 
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Highest I have, and likely highest I will ever have is my Hoback MK Ultra. $425 new, but I paid $240 for it. Next most expensive would be my Kershaw Ruby which is worth... well I don't know, I paid like $150 for it, but it's a user not a collector.
 
Highest I had was a BRS orange select replicant which I bought for $350 and sold for $500. Right after I sold it I had the option to buy it back brand new in box a week after for $350.

Nice knife but I couldn't ever use a $350 dollar knife.
 
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