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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
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
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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
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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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Did some research... this is called a Moose.
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My latest Rough Rider is the RR1278 Outdoorsman Fixed Blade.
I have a full review of it on Amazon.
Here is the meat of the review:
It is about the same length as a Schrade Sharpfinger and features a nice drop point blade with a three inch cutting edge. It came very pointy and quite sharp. The 440A Stainless steel blade is mirror polished with a hollow grind. Mine has a nice evenly colored tobacco smooth bone handle with an acorn shield and lanyard hole. The bone is flush with the full tang and integrated bolster. It is nicely pinned the tang and, if keeping with Rough Rider's normal method, it is also epoxied to the tang.
The sheath is nylon with either leather or pleather accents. It has a plastic insert. The knife fits the sheath quite well... the belt loop is around 2 inches wide so it should suffice for any belt that is used to hold up your jeans.
I think the knife would make a good skinner or capping knife. It would also make a nice neck or boot knife as it is a small knife that could easily be concealed. However the sheath may need to be modified for that purpose.
If you're looking for a nice, lightweight, slim-line fixed blade with an extremely sharp drop point blade you may want to consider this knife. Be forewarned, however, that the handle is only about 3.25 inches so there isn't a lot to hold on to if you have a bear paw for a hand. Also the smooth bone and lack of a guard could be problematic if the handle got slippery. (consider using a lanyard to help keep your hand in position.
Knife in the sheath. The snap helps keep the sheath and I was unable to shake it lose. However I was able to pull the knife out with the strap still snapped!
Compared ot the Schrade 65th Anniversary Sharpfinger. About the same length but much slimmer and less bulk.
There is a discussion within Rough Riders called: Rough Riders and other SMKW House Brands
I think it would be interesting to have groups devoted to SMKW house Brands and a group for the Frost House Brands, especially if people were unbiased in their comments. Not every thing Frost sucks!
Nice looking Canoe Tobias
Good one Charles. I love the RR 5 inch Toothpicks. I just wished they made more than 5 of them.
My latest Rough Rider is an oldie but goodie. The RR492 Canoe with tortoise shell handles.
It is part of my growing collection of Tortoise Shell.
RR 505 Baby Toothpick
RR 492 Canoe
RR 514 Work Knife (Locking Soddy)
Marbles MR 207 5 inch Toothpick
Not sure ho many more RR Tortoise Shells I will get but I'll at least get the Reverse Gunstock and the Straight Razor. There is also a nice Bever Creek (Frost) Trapper with a Sharps Carbine Shield) and Marbles Sleeveboard Whittler in tortoise shell that look enticing.
(And yes I know it is imitation tortoise. Many Knife Companies in America led the way in banning the use of tortoise shell for knife handles. I think many American Companies stopped using it before WWI. Several other companies followed suit soon after WWI. Other industries were much slower with many continuing to use the actual tortoise shell until the world wide ban in 1973.)
Nice one Charles
Oh yeah. There ain't no such thing as red turquoise. The red stone is synthetic bloody basin jasper which is a red jasper with spider vein of black, brown, or green. (Not to be confused with Bloody Jasper which is a green jasper with red veins.) The yellow stone in the Stoneworx line is yellow jasper. These stones are often called red and yellow turquoise but the stones are NOT turquoise.
Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium.
Jasper, a form of chalcedony, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.
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