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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 Tobias Gibson on April 28, 2012 at 9:56: Okay what is going on! I just saw Rough Riders being sold on Cultery Corner Network! I've seen the Colts and the Marbles in the past but I've never seen Rough Riders, the housebrand of SMKW, being sold there. First a Stroke of Kuck 6 blade stockman and then the Orca Dive knife. At no time did they identify the Rough Rider brand.

Comment by Billy Oneale on April 27, 2012 at 21:53: knives Live had a whited peppered bone Canal Street trapper on the show tonight.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on April 27, 2012 at 11:22: It sounds like the have a batch of bone that is different from what they are use to selling.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on April 27, 2012 at 6:13: Jan, I guess the real problem is that it seems to stand out compared to all the other WSB I own, including that other 12 RR. The other night they were selling similar WSB on Knives Live TV and it wasn't called White Smooth Bone, they called it "Pepper bone" They actually commented on the quality of the black flecks in the white smooth bone.

(Above:Rough Riders, Below US Classics and a Frost Trapper)

(Above the U.S Classics, Below Marbles Scrimshaw and a RR after market Scrimshaw)

Comment by Jan Carter on April 26, 2012 at 19:16: Tobias,

I am surprised that you see an issue with RR quality on the smooth white bones. One of the things I have always admired about RR is their ability to create quality knives

Comment by Tobias Gibson on April 25, 2012 at 18:38: Just uploaded my review of the RR1192 Once in a Blue Moon Folding hunter. This is the 5 inch lockback. This is only the second 5inch LB I've ever bought. It isn't a pattern I collect or carry yet I took one look at this one when I was at SMKW and I had to buy it.

http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/RRR/rr1192.html

Comment by Tobias Gibson on April 19, 2012 at 8:46: Here are some photos of the white bone on my latest Rough Rider purchase. To me the flecking shows a lack of recent quality control. I've kept the knife because of the price but the quality of the smooth white bone is not what it used to be or that of the recent Marbles line.

Top is the one with the good blade, bottom the one with the bent tip.

Close up of the unbleached bone.

The back sides of the two barlows. Again the top knife is the one with the good tip.

Three knives, and older small barlow, the sowbelly and the big daddy barlow. The barlow doesn't even seem to belong with the other two knives.

The Marbles white bone barlow is much cleaner. As a big, big fan of Rough Riders and as someone who often pushes peoiple to take the Rough rider challenge, I'm hoping that SMKW can kick a few tails and get the quality back into this line of knives. Even if it requires a price hike of a few dollars to get the fit and finish back to the way it used to be, they will remain on of the best bargains on the market. If the quality continues to slip, they'll lose my vote as the best traditional patterns of the global marketplace.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on April 19, 2012 at 7:40: Tom my prayers are with you and your wife. It is hard for many to understand just how physically, spiritually and emotionally draining living with a chronic life threatening diseases can be. It takes a very strong will to endure such a devastating illness such as MS. Stay strong and may the Lord's blessing shine down upon you and your wife and may His love you bring both of you the strength, courage and inner peace to cope with this horrible cross you must bear.

Comment by Billy Oneale on April 18, 2012 at 23:42: Tom, You have my prayers for your family.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on April 18, 2012 at 18:28: Tom, that is very bad news about your wife, I am sure she will be on the prayer list for many of our members. I am so sad to hear about that. Tom, we try to make this a knife collector site for all nice collectors. Whether or not you are a high dollar collector or a person that loves knives and wants to collect them but with their income can't afford the high dollar knives. I think this is a place for all nice knife collectors and we are glad to have you.