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Featured Comment by Craig Henry on November 3, 2011 at 16:37

And speaking of traditional knives......here's some of my new ones. I didn't polish them up, straight out of the box -

Featured Comment by Craig Henry on November 3, 2011 at 16:33

The one Damascus lockbak will be enough for me. I want at least one Damascus knife, and I too am trying to stay away from lockbacks, except for one here and there. I did my time with contemporary/tactical lockbacks. Traditionalism is calling me again.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on November 3, 2011 at 11:45

About those Damascus knives... After looking at them and almost pulling hte trigger, I backed off.   I figured if I bought one, I'd want them both.  That would've tied up $70-90. Are they worth that kind of money.  Yeah, probably.  Will they go  up in value.  I predict they will.  Short run, probably won't be made again, etc.

 

But I don't buy Damscus, I'm not big on lock-backs, and Red bone is not my typical choice in handle material.  I can use the $70-90 to buy Rough Riders I do collect and leave the Damascus RR for those who actually collect those knives. 

 

If someone would like to do a "Guest Review" of those knives, or any other RR,  to post on my Rough Rider Review page, I'd be happy to post it with along with all due credit going to you.  Just send me the words and pictures and I'll do the formatting and posting.   Rough Rider Reviews - ( blindkat.hegewisch.net/RRR/ )

Comment by Tobias Gibson on November 3, 2011 at 6:53

When I got mine, I was trolling eBay looking at the things ZIX had for sale (Search his stuff by typing in Zix)  The 844 was sitting at something like  $5 with just a few minutes left.  Ithought well that's just silly.  I decided no one was going to get that knife for under $12 so I watched the bid and with around 20 seconds to spare I put in a $12.00 bid assuming for sure I would immediately be overbid. I really wasn't looking to buy the knife.  I just didn't want someone else getting for a low price.  The envy monster taught me a lesson.  The bid jumped to $8.00 and the clock ticked away, and then I got the message that I won.   

 

That screwed up another bid that I was actually looking at because I now I didn't have enough in paypal to increase my bid on another knife if  the bid went up.  It went up and I lost. (I don't bid unless the money is already in Paypal)

 

The 844 was a knife of spite for sometime because Ididn't get the knife I wanted simply because I was being mean to  another bidder.  I learned my lesson and no longer do "spite" bidding.  In the end I got a pretty good knife for a great price and I can't remember the knife I missed out on.  But at the time I was just kicking myself for being a jerk.

 

But with the lesson learne my knife of spite transformed into a pretty darn good all around hunting knife that I got for a great price.  The God of knives is a forgiving God when you repent from your evil eBay ways. On;y bid on things you want because the next time  your bid of spite will get you this:

 

Featured Comment by Craig Henry on November 3, 2011 at 1:47

hrknives.com shows the RR844 for $11.10.....now, that's just silly.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on November 2, 2011 at 17:33

My only problem with the 844 was the way the location of the retaining strap and the fact that the snap would be pressed into the knife handle.  I didn't need that happening with the nice handle.    The strap also had a tendency to snag on the knife when drawing or returning it the sheath.  I decided to modify the sheath by carefully removing the strap and repositioning it.  It required a few steps.  When I review the knife, I'll explain what I did step by step.

Featured Comment by Craig Henry on November 2, 2011 at 17:12

I've had my eye on that RR844 for a while now. That looks really nice!

Featured Comment by Craig Henry on November 2, 2011 at 16:46

Yeah, that's pretty much the way I started collecting too waaay back when. Every few weeks I'd get another "using knife" until I had a boat load of "using knives". It all went downhill from there. 

 

The weather was pretty decent today so I got my camera out....BOTH batteries were dead. Oh well. I really need to get a better indoor photie setup.

Comment by J.J. Smith III on November 2, 2011 at 8:53

Comment by Craig Henry 14 hours ago 

" You know, I have this bad habit....if I get a knife I like as an EDC, I have to get another as a backup! I know, I'm weird. It must be some kind of  obessive compulsive thing."

 

LOL.  That's about how my collecting started.   Got one to use and wanted a spare.  Kinda went from there.  It's very rare that I have a user that I don't have one that's put up.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on November 2, 2011 at 6:26

I think you'll finf more pics in the other shorter threads and not as many on the Comment Wall.  But here are few of my favorite RR

 

MMy Riggers

 

My Toothpicks

RR078

 

RR 844 with modified sheath

 

Moonshiner Sowbelly

 

A Stroke of Luck Toothpick

Red Bone Canittler, Amber Bone locking Canoe Whittler

Brian Yellowhorse

 

And I'm always adding more at Rough Rider Reviews

 

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