"Your" Best Flipper?

[HappyDaddy]

Any one of my ZT 0801s or my ZT 0095. I'm also fond of the action on the CKF Morrfs.

 

[FN in MT]

Koenig Arius...super slick flipper.

 

[orangejoe35]

I don’t have many flippers, but this Boker Kihon is my best one.

 

[fjblair]

I do not care for liner locks, so I only own one-a Kershaw Chive. My loss because there goes about half the folder market.

 

[JimMD]

Best overall action for a flipper: Koenig Arius
Best front flipper: Burger EXK Plus
Runners-up: North Arms Skaha II, Holt Specter, Shiro F3R, Sander Barbus, Shiro HatiOn Lite, Rod Olson M9 Custom

 

[3fifty7]

Spyderco Southard is my only flipper so it gets the nod.




Sorry for the low quality pic I cropped it from a larger pic.

 

[stonproject]

I assume balisongs don't count?

The Keen is the best flipper I have for sure. The Boker tuxedo kwaiken I have is a close second. MD Gent is third.

 

[Mingecutter]

Kershaw RAM 1910

 

[ArchVV]

These are all fairly close in the category of what I would consider the "best" of my flippers. This includes the relatively cheap Protech Cambria and CRKT Foresight at the top of the photo.

The Thorburn L51 is still king tho.

 

[spyderg]

-Hands down best I’ve got or ever tried is my Smock SK23! (Waiting for Spyderco’s version...)
-Best big company production knife, Spyderco Domino, ZT 452 not far behind (it’s smoother overall but although I love the strong detent, it’s just quite right with the position of the flipper tab for me).
-Brous Bionic Xl gets honourable mention. The flipping action is just about perfect but I felt the need to mod the flipper tab to make it smaller and add a finger choil at the same time. (Clip was terrible switching to left carry).
-My SteelWill Cutjack is great right handed but alas only o.k. Lefthanded. I guess the way pressure gets applied to the fairly flexible handle messes up the lock bar pressure making the action far less reliable.

 

[OrangeBlueOrangeBlue]

I really like the action on my Kizer Gemini. The Gent isn’t bad once I dialed in the pivot.

 

[Comeuppance]

Honestly, the best I've handled is probably just a fluke of the QC gods happening to bless my knife*, but a Stedemon ZKC D-01 I owned for a couple years had the absolute best and smoothest drop-shut / fly-open action of any knife I have handled in any price range.

* I've handled about a half dozen other Stedemons, and, while all were well-built, none of them were quite like this one.

That said, my current best flipper is also a Stedemon, although it's just generally on par with the flipping action of the better ZTs I have had. (I.E. - very good, but nothing worth going on and on about)

 

[Murphjd25]

I just picked up my second flipper yesterday. So now my two flippers are the Advocate and a Hinderer. They are both good enough for me.

 

[unwisefool]

Best flippers I have are a Freeman 451, buck Marksman and a Valence Gamma midtech

 

[Crimson Cloud]

Of the folders that I have, the Darrel Ralph Dominator, running on his Maxx Glide Pivot System, is my favorite. It's incredibly smooth for the large knife that it is.

 

[McFeeli]

Best flippers I have are a Freeman 451, buck Marksman and a Valence Gamma midtech

I went through the whole list expecting to see at least one Marksman. Glad I wasn’t wrong. I would think they’d be a top contender just because of the design itself. No detent should equal a much smoother deployment. That model is definitely getting nearer to the top of my “To Buy” list.

 

[SeppukuSamurai]

Hoback Kwaiback, fires out like a rocket and drops shut. Also equally as good is my Zieba S5. Just incredible action.

 

[jumpstat]

Mine would be my Gen4 XM18 3.5 Spanto with teflon washers.

 

[Ironbut]

My 0562 is a good flipper, but this new Laconico Keen has the ZT beat.

 

[Officer's Match]

I have had a number of really good flippers (loving the Keen right now), but the best for me is the CKF MILK (both my son's and mine in the video below).