YOUR most expensive production folder?

Another Shirogorov for the thread. Someone earlier said it's an uncommonly expensive EDC and I agree. I thought I'd be wary of damaging a $695 knife but I find myself using it as hard as any tool I have my hands on. The finishes on the One Bear F3 base model make any concerns about scratches a non-issue. And the F3's 5.15 oz/142g weight gives it a heft and tank-like vault quality that encourages hard use. It's a great working knife.

I'd balk at other, more expensive and shiny Shiros being pushed too hard, but not this one.

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ChazzyP ChazzyP , I had seen your pictures of your disassembled 111 before but it just struck me how ingenious the locking mechanism, stop pin and bearing track construction is. I'm beginning to regret selling it even though I did so to raise funds for a knife I like much better.
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I posted my 111 a few pages ago as one of my most expensive. Shiro has their own interesting solution regarding that knife's stop pin and the fact that the presentation side is CF only, similar to the 0492 referred to earlier. The pin is affixed to the blade, protruding through the lock-side only. It travels through a chase milled out in the CF and stops in both the open and closed positions against the rather complexly milled, multi-functional liner on that side.

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I have a Chris Reeve Lisa's Pick of the month unique graphic large Sebenza. New in box. I bought that years ago.
 
$200 is my arbitrary limit on production folders, but I think the most I've actually spent was $175. I'd conceivably go higher for something I had to have, but it hasn't happened yet.
 
A Massdrop Laconico Keen is one of best values out now for +/-$150. Fit, finish, function and usability are all on par with much more expensive flippers. Heftier than it looks, I'd call it a midweight folder.
 
CPP CPP , ingenious is exactly the right word for Shiro's engineering on the 111. One of the considerably beautiful attributes of Shirogorov knives is their simplicity of design--nothing's there that doesn't need to be on their serial production knives. I was so struck by the apparent complexity I found inside what appeared to be such an uncomplicated knife, but the more I considered it the more I came to see how the single lined side of the 111 solved several potential problems in the weight-saving, mostly CF construction of such a big-ass knife. Just sublime...

As far as regrets go, you know that's part of the whole Knife Knut thing, buying and selling as there are not so many of us with unlimited funds to acquire and keep all the knives we'd like to have. I sold my beautiful, one-of-a-kind Tabargan to buy my F95R with it's rare 3.5mm blade. I do like that 95 better--particularly in the sense that it's one I carry and use as opposed to the Tabargan which I could never bring myself to risk marking up. It makes me sad looking at pics of it now, but there's some comfort in remembering I had it to handle and enjoy for a couple years.
 
This is most expensive knife that clearly qualifies as a production knife, the Rockstead Shu:
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The Shiro CD Neon deserves mention in spite of its somewhere between a production and mid-tech according to my understanding of their Custom Division knives:
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You guys are in a completely different league. I don't think I own anything over $160-200 and my most costly folder is a Spyderco D'Allara 3 at $139.
 
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