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Home of the Rough Rider. RR offers all of the great knife patterns from the past. Quality and affordable, a rare product these days.

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Rough Rider

Although an Import Rough Rider Brand by Smoky Mountain Knife Works continues to get high marks as a favorite for collectors.

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And Then There Was One!

Started by Charles Sample. Last reply by J.J. Smith III Dec 30, 2024. 6 Replies 4 Likes

Rough Rider produced a series of twelve knives called the Rifleman Series. Each knife has brown gunstock bone scales. The shield is a Winchester Model 1873 lever action rifle, often referred to as…Continue

Blade thickness

Started by J.J. Smith III. Last reply by J.J. Smith III Nov 1, 2024. 7 Replies 1 Like

As I posted in my last discussion on Rough Rider vs CASE, I'm having issues with the thinness of some of the Rough Rider blades.I questioned this on the Rough Rider Facebook page and was confronted…Continue

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Unusual Model No. on a RR

Started by Charles Sample. Last reply by Kevin Oct 29, 2024. 8 Replies 0 Likes

I just got this Rough Rider RR22034BN orange smooth bone trapper. I have never seen this type of RR model no. before. Is it a new numbering system for RR? Can anyone tell me anything about it?…Continue

New Rough Rider collector

Started by Susie Fitzsimmons. Last reply by Kevin Oct 27, 2024. 9 Replies 4 Likes

A couple years ago I bought a collection of knives from a man I worked with. I gave $200 for 77 knives. I gave it to my husband for Christmas. He looked at it, enjoyed it then put it away for…Continue

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Comment by Jan Carter on December 16, 2023 at 17:40: Guy,

Welcome and yes it is but only within the Forum set up for it.

https://iknifecollector.com/forum/categories/knives-for-sale-or-tra...

Comment by Guy MEDFORD on December 15, 2023 at 23:17: Hello, new member, I have gathered a bunch of RRs and put together nearly every known toothpick scale, bolster and shield combo in multiples. Is it acceptable to buy, sell or trade on this site?

Comment by Jan Carter on June 22, 2022 at 18:19: NEW DEALER!!!

https://tsaknives.com/news-%26-updates/f/new-brand-with-perks

Comment by Ralph West on March 31, 2021 at 14:59: I just received all three of the RR knives from the Tiger Stripe collection (RR 2218, 2221, 2222). They look and function great Just cant beat RR for the price.

Comment by Ugly Old Guy on January 18, 2021 at 18:42: two new.

RR2040 Classic Carbon Barlow and RR719 Old Yellah Barlow

Comment by Ugly Old Guy on February 13, 2020 at 23:11: Rough Rider 1838 "Hopalong Cassidy Moose from the "Riders of the Silver Screen" series.

Comment by Ugly Old Guy on January 29, 2020 at 22:31: Anyone else have the RR1838 "Hopalong Cassidy" moose, or one of the other "Riders of the Silver Screen" series moose?

Comment by Dewey treat on June 24, 2019 at 20:46: The mailman dropped off a very nice 3 1/2" RR #737 jigged brown Gunstock Jack Knife today. I really like the scales. A nice, tight knife.... NIB.

Comment by J.J. Smith III on June 20, 2019 at 11:24: Dewey, I used the method that I found over on BF.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/dyeing-bone-a-tutorial.868446/

Figured it couldn't hurt. It was a matter of preference...I don't like red scales, so anything had to be an improvement. I'm pleased with the results. The combination of the brown dye on the red scales gave them some depth and warmness.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on June 20, 2019 at 11:18: As for a list of All RR knives. I have a list of the first four years of production somewhere. But RR just celebrated 25 years of knife production. It would be hard to come up with a list of series let alone knives in each series and the year introduced. This becomes even more problematic at RR is now producing series that once were under the Colt Brand.

Not to mention, RR also made several “one off” knives that never made it in a series, as well as numerous fixed blades and modern folders. And then there is the Red Ryder conundrum. Sometimes SMKW lumps them in the RoughRyder line and other times they don’t!