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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 March 12, 2013 at 13:28: Smiling Knife,

Hopefully someone can give you an actual date when the brand was released. I'm not 100% sure. What ! do know:

Rough Rider Knives is a house brand of Smoky Mountain Knife Works. The majority of the knives are made in China at the Wayeah Knife Factory. Some fixed blade production has also taken place in the SMKW Pakistani factory. The Pakistani knives are typically fixed blades with a stag handles and may use 420 steel. (I’m not 100% sure about the steel, as I have also heard that it is also 440A).

Almost all of the Chinese made knives have the 440 “Razor Sharp” stainless steel blades

A small number of knives have also been made under contract by Condor in El-Salvador. The knives feature 1070 carbon steel blades. SMKW is in negations with Condor to expand their carbon steel production. (They have also used Condor for machetes and other large fixed blades in their Marbles line)

I am also not 100% sure when the Rough Rider line started but I think it has been around since the 1990s. The pattern numbers on the knife are higher depending on when they were produced. I think all triple digit numbers were first made before the year 2010. All post 2010 knives have a four digit pattern umber (again not 100% sure if this is correct)

Comment by Smiling-Knife on March 12, 2013 at 12:06: I am interested in the history of knives and brands. I only have a few RR knives but one of the first knives I bought 'online' was a small RR stockman around 2003-4. When were they first made and any other details about the origins of the brand and manufacturing will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on March 12, 2013 at 11:51: Rough Rider Knives on facebook has put forth a question I asked. The question is what it most underutilized traditional pattern in their line and what would you like to see more of. I pushing for the Scout/utility. Feel free to push for the pattern you think is most underutilized in their line.

Comment by Billy Oneale on March 8, 2013 at 22:50: And then I went and bought this from the round man for my wife. one of these is mop and the other is yellow delrin.

Comment by Billy Oneale on March 8, 2013 at 22:46: I won this on Ebay about 3 weeks ago. I really like this one, especially being stag, which is hard to find in RR.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on March 6, 2013 at 6:40: I've been investigating the pattern. Many of the knives have a 4cm rule on the side. I'm really not sure why but I'm guessing this that mushrooms need to be over a certain size to harvest. THe blade is so you can cut the mushroom head off withot damaging the Mycelium, which is basically the root system of the mushrooms and is a vital part of the eco-system. The brush is a very soft brush used to remove dirt without bruising the mushroom. Many mushroom knives also have tweezers for removing thorns and such (I suppose it depends if the mushroom is harvested around thorny bushes?) Some also have cor screws. There are both fixed and folding varieties with folders commonly having a key ring near the top end.

As I said, I don't eat mushrooms and have never gone mushroom hunting. I wouldn't even know which is ones are poisonous. Yet I like the knives and I do have a tendency to use them in my art work.

Below is a Valarian War Princess in the Mushroom Swamp on the planet Ztarchia during the 3rd interstellar War of the Shindo Galaxy (I know. I read too much Sci-Fi in my youth)

54mm white cast metal figure by Valiant Enterprises. Mushroom made of fluorescent putty and lightly coated with glow in the dark paint.

Comment by Billy Oneale on March 5, 2013 at 21:30: That's an interesting looking pattern.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on March 5, 2013 at 18:06: Review to follow soon. I ordered one last Friday. I'm also in the process of making a fixed blade using a herder hawkbill blade and some deer bone! I've had the blade for several years and the bone for almost a year but had no idea what i was going to do with either of them until this knife came out! Ad it will have a sheath made out of pig suede!