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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 Ken Spielvogel on December 8, 2013 at 9:20: Excellent choice Martin

Comment by J.J. Smith III on December 8, 2013 at 8:44: RRs gunstock bone has a nice feel to it.

Comment by Martin Desax on December 8, 2013 at 8:32: My prefered Rough Rider model (till now) is the Canoe with brown Gunstock checkered bone.

Comment by Ken Spielvogel on December 5, 2013 at 7:43: Nice Marbles Peter

Comment by peter force on December 5, 2013 at 6:44: @tobias i know what ya mean..sometimes i will get a fella so desperate for grocery money that he wil lay say a 150$ GEC tube on me for 50$.. i will end up buying it,feel bad,abnd then still paypal him another 25$ or so...

BUT i also agree with KEN in not feeling guilty about it.. i know it does stink watching good sellers go undeer but lots of timees ,this has bveen the very reason i could afford some of the knives i own...

not to mention that i have been the guy ...hasnt been awhiile as i really watch my knife budget these days.. but that gy that is in sudden panic to sell 2 knives to buy one... thats when i dont feel so guilty.. selling your hard collected knivs for food. gets to me. if your just running around every forum and club trying to sell 3 knives as fast as you can for a new custom... then guilt doesnt even come into the factor.. the WHEELIN AND DEALIN COMES OUT!!!...LOLOL!

Comment by peter force on December 5, 2013 at 6:37: hey i was taking some pics and here are some MARBLES which cmme from the RR factory.. these i piekced up in 2008.. they are still NIB and took out for pics for someone. what i want to show here is that if you aleady go looking for the first knife in the picture.theh HATCHET KNIFE!! gotta love it!... anyway io never even EDC the few i have.. but here like i said for now is just one pic of many io ave taken... let me know what ya think of the bone in that hatchet knife.. please tale the time to look at new ones now.. even from 08 till now.. the new ones are dyed in the middle and thats about it.agan im speaking of the hatchet knife only in this pic.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on November 24, 2013 at 16:35: Unless you have a political objection to knives made in China, it really is hard to find fault in Rough Riders. My only other complaint is there are so few options for certain patterns, especially their Camp/Scout knife. It only comes in red jigged bone and amber jigged bone. The pattern should be better exploited. I've got similar complaints for the Marlin spike and the large toothpick but I can understand that these are less popular patterns.

When you consider how many sunfish and barlows they make, it is hard to justify just two Scout/Camps!

Comment by Bobby Horn on November 24, 2013 at 15:34: Welcome to the addiction. Like many here I have discovered RR to be quality knives and IMHO worth more than the price I paid. I would not hesitate to use any one of them for EDC, not something I can say of others knives in my collection.

My only grip with RR is I don't live close to SMKW so I can only find them through mail order. Wish Academy would be up a contract to carry them.

Comment by Martin Desax on November 24, 2013 at 12:34: Hi guys, I'm not a big RR collector (till now), as far I own only 3. But after I red here about them I ordered a few more ;-)

I'll show you my few RR soon on the Show thread.

As some of you, I'm also very astonished about their quality. These are definitely not China crap.