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Your Top 5 Spyderco Folders made at the Taichung plant

RamZar

RamZar

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Arguably, the best quality Spyderco folders are coming out of the Taichung plant.

What are your top 5 choices in ranked order?

Here are mine:

  1. Southard
  2. Gayle Bradley
  3. Techno
  4. Hungarian
  5. Air by GB

Here's an alphabetical list of the Spyderco Taichung folders along with designations on whether UPCOMING or DISCONTINUED otherwise they're current products:

  • Air by Gayle Bradley
  • Chaparral 1 S30V CF (DISCONTINUED)
  • Chaparral 1 CTS-XHP CF
  • Chaparral 2 CTS-XHP Titanium
  • Chaparral 3 CTS-XHP Stepped Titanium
  • Chokwe (DISCONTINUED)
  • Chubby (UPCOMING)
  • Des Horn
  • Dice
  • Dog Tag
  • Dog Tag Black (UPCOMING)
  • Domino CTS-XHP / Black Cubic Check CF
  • Domino CTS-XHP / Blue Weave CF
  • Domino CTS-204P / Blue G-10
  • Frontier (UPCOMING)
  • Gayle Bradley
  • Hungarian
  • K2
  • Navaja
  • Nilakka
  • Perrin PPT (DISCONTINUED)
  • Rubicon (UPCOMING)
  • Sage 1 LinerLock CF/G-10 Laminate
  • Sage 2 Reeve Integral Lock Titanium
  • Sage 3 Bolt Action Lock Blue G-10 (DISCONTINUED)
  • Sage 3 Bolt Action Lock CF/G-10 Laminate
  • Sage 4 Mid Back Lock Arizonian Ironwood / Titanium Bolsters
  • Schempp Bowie (UPCOMING)
  • Slysz Bowie
  • Southard Earth-Brown G-10
  • Southard Black Blade Black G-10
  • Szabo (DISCONTINUED)
  • Szabo Black
  • Techno
  • Terzuola SLIPIT (DISCONTINUED)
  • Tuff
  • Tusk
  • Vallotton
  • Zulu (DISCONTINUED)
 
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Tough call, that full list is full of so many top folders it's crazy.

1. Gayle Bradley
2. Domino
3. Vallotton
4. Navaja
5. Szabo

The only one I'm dying to try out is the Southard. I'll get it eventually, just too infatuated with my current knives to sell or trade towards a Southard at the moment.
 
austonh said:
Tough call, that full list is full of so many top folders it's crazy.

1. Gayle Bradley
2. Domino
3. Vallotton
4. Navaja
5. Szabo

The only one I'm dying to try out is the Southard. I'll get it eventually, just too infatuated with my current knives to sell or trade towards a Southard at the moment.
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Southard is so good that it lives up to the hype.
 
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I only have a few from the Taichung currently, the Cat and the Szabo. The Cat is a great little knife but I modified it heavily and can't really remember how it was stock. The Szabo is a lot bigger than I pictured in my head so I haven't used it at all. Great fit and finish though, if they made a miniature version, maybe PM2 sized or thereabouts, of it I would be in for one. Had a Southard but I got that modified in a trade as well, but it was smooth as butter then as well. I do have a Salsa as well, which is a Taiwan blade but I'm not sure if it is from Taichung. Great little knife though
 
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I only have a few from the Taichung currently, the Cat and the Szabo. The Cat is a great little knife but I modified it heavily and can't really remember how it was stock. The Szabo is a lot bigger than I pictured in my head so I haven't used it at all. Great fit and finish though, if they made a miniature version, maybe PM2 sized or thereabouts, of it I would be in for one. Had a Southard but I got that modified in a trade as well, but it was smooth as butter then as well. I do have a Salsa as well, which is a Taiwan blade but I'm not sure if it is from Taichung. Great little knife though
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Salsa is one of the discontinued ones from Taiwan along with Perrin PPT which I just got from a member on the Exchange.
 
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1. Gayle Bradley
2. Chokwe
3. Techno
4. Southard
5. Sage 1

I've got a Tuff coming so that may very well replace one of those. I'd say The Taichung-made Spydercos are some of the best production knives on the market.
 
Southard
Techno
Chaparral Ti
GB
Domino

Top to bottom of this list along with other Taiwan Spydies I've held have REALLY good F&F and overall quality. Southard and Techno to me reminds me of midtechs in terms of quality. That's from my experience with them at least.
 
Seeing a pattern here.

I may have to break down and buy the Air but in comparison it looks a little like the Des Horn a little just smaller. And the Horn is just a bit too small for my needs in a single knife carry. But I do like the M4. Decisions...
 
Favorite Spydies!

1. Southard
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2. Tuff

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3. Gayle Bradley (I haven't had time to pimp my yet so no pick.)

4. Domino (no time to pimp mine yet)

5. Techno (Actually want to leave this one alone as it is. )
 
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I have a sage one that I'm thinking about pimping out. Putting on some real carbon fiber scales and giving it the Fallout treatment
 
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