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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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Toothpick for trade

Started by Guy MEDFORD Dec 19, 2023. 0 Replies 0 Likes

I believe I have just about every known scale, bolster, and shield combo, but I want any old or new combinations out there. I generally have triplicate in many discontinued and some rare small…Continue

Great quality knives for the money!

Started by Ron Foster. Last reply by Fred Kemp Nov 8, 2021. 13 Replies 11 Likes

Many of the Rough Rider patterns I own are similar to some of the Case patterns I own. When comparing the quality, fit and finish these knives are a great value. What really makes them great is I…Continue

new to collecting

Started by Ralph West. Last reply by Jeremy B. Buchanan Mar 29, 2021. 6 Replies 4 Likes

I started collecting fixed blade knives at first and have about 30 from various companies, but once I got into Pocket knives I was hooked. I have about 50 and Rough Rider is the cornerstone of my…Continue

A Question on The Stroke of Luck Series

Started by Ugly Old Guy. Last reply by Ugly Old Guy Jan 18, 2021. 3 Replies 1 Like

In the "A Stroke of Luck" series, I have the RR1057 Large Stockman, RR1058 standard size Trapper, and RR1062 regular size Canoe.Does anyone know what the RR1059, RR1060, and RR1061 knives are?Since…Continue

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Comment by Tobias Gibson on February 6, 2012 at 9:28: Hmm... You know, I had to return my coal miner lock-back to SMKW for a different one due to a bad lock. I know they recently sent a delegation over to their China factory due to a quality control issue. I wondering if they had a batch of bad knives made or something.

The rest of the Coal Miner series was put together with the quality I've come to expect from RR, (which is on par with Case) All my other RR have come from old stock. Even the 4 peanuts I recently ordered are probably from 2-3 year old stock so I really can say much about recent production.

Hopefully they haven't let production standards slip to keep the price the same. I'd rather pay a couple buck more for a knife of the same quality as a few years ago. Considering how much the price of everything else has gone up, I'm actually surprised that the price of RR hasn't gone up already!

I'm not sure if I've shown these. I'm pretty sure it is i the only equal-end pens made by Rough Rider. They need to consider making more in bone/pearl/stag/ or maybe even the stone-worx line. The equal-end pen is probably the ultimate "Gentleman's knife"

The blue one is the "Support the Cause" prostate cancer "man knife" The pink one is the "Support the Cause" breast cancer

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on February 6, 2012 at 8:46: Ivas, I just recieved both moose pattern knives from SMKW and they are both in great shape. I also order a coperhead to give to someone as a little present. I noticed that it is not made as well as a coperhead I bought a few years ago. Whats up with that?

Comment by Billy Oneale on February 4, 2012 at 23:23: That is a great picture, Toby. I should have bought some in that series, but I didn't.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on February 4, 2012 at 21:26: Moonshiner Canoe.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on February 4, 2012 at 7:37: Hi Jan, I'm waiting for the peanut to arrive. Order it a few days ago. Actually this si the second oen I'm ordering. Hopefully this will come- but that is an other story.

As for do I think Stag will be moving to the Colt line? Yes. I also thing that imported Remington are being contracted through SMKW even though they won't admit it. I'm guessing you'll see more stag and pearl showing up on these two lines. Don't get me wrong -- Even i think it is good business sense to put it on these other name brands . They have a limited amount of stag and pearl to work with. Makes sense to put it on the knives that you can charge more money for.

Comment by Jan Carter on February 4, 2012 at 5:29: Tobias,

get the RR Stag peanut before they're all gone as Rough rider has no plans to make Stag handles in the future

Do you think this is going to be one of the materials moved to the Colt line?

Comment by Billy Oneale on February 3, 2012 at 21:16: Toby, I have had problems with a couple of Colts that I have bought. I had to send a Canoe back because the shield fell out and the bone dye was terrible. I also bought a SS folder with a blue bone insert and the insert fell out. I am really Leary about buying a Colt because of these problems. On the other hand, I can't think of one RR that I have had a problem with.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on February 3, 2012 at 20:39: Is it just me or does anyone seem to think that SMKW is starting to release a bunch of knives in the Colt line with the more expensive handle materials instead of putting them in the Rough Rider line just so they can charge a little more for the knife. I tell you, from my experience the Colt knives really aren't that much better than RR but they sure do cost more. I guess I'm suffering from a little bit of Colt envy.

Comment by Billy Oneale on February 2, 2012 at 22:43: Toby, great looking knives. I noticed a show or two ago that they hade made a run of Stoneworx leg knives. I have all of them except that new leg. I will have to buy it for my wife.

Comment by J.J. Smith III on February 2, 2012 at 7:59: I got a set of the 2nd generation stags from RR, when they came out. Only have the whittler from the firts gen. 2nd gen is far superior. The stag fixed blades look tempting.