Another Stockman broke its spring- first ever knife to do this to me last year. CASE dealt with it quite quickly and efficiently. I just know I would not get this level of commitment from GEC (even e-mailing them you are very lucky to get a response...) and RR I would not know whom to contact and the shipping costs would be bigger than the knife's.
SMKW for Rough Ryder and Marbles.
They
DO stand behind their lifetime warranty.
I have a pre "MR" number Marbles Hawk Bill with metal handle. It was stored closed in a cigar box for a few years. A couple years after my stroke, I was able to get that cigar box of knives (and a few other knives). When I looked at the Hawk Bill, I saw the back spring broke at some point while in the cigar box.
I sent SMKW an email with photos, mentioned it was an older knife without an "MR" number - or even "MARBLES" etched on the blade, and I had bought it off Amazon years before, and had no idea what the order number was or who the seller was.
They sent me a new knife at no charge, and said to keep the broken one.
Keep in mind this is an inexpensive knife. Current price is $6.⁹⁵. I think I paid $5.⁹⁵ plus free (not "PRIME") shipping for the first one.
I later bought a Marbles MR278 "DEMO" knife with a no MR number Marbles SPORK.
It arrived in a hang pack, all four blades half or slightly under half opened, to "show off" the blades.
Yep. Broken back spring before it came out of the hang pack.
They sent a replacement WITH the no MR number SPORK, even tho I told them there was nothing wrong with the SPORK, and I would be more than happy to just get a replacement MR278 with no accessory. Again, they did not want the broken knife sent to them.
In 50 years that Rough Ryder is going to be worth the same as it is today.
INCORRECT!!!!
There is a review on You Tube for the Rough Rider RR887 large Outdoorsman series "Smooth Tobacco Bone" equal end Sufish.
I paid $9.⁹⁹ with free (not "PRIME") shipping on Amazon, and the same for a back-up, at a truck stop in ... South Carolina(?) ... Georgia(?) ... that had a rack of knives including Rough Rider, near the ready made no wait hot food, in the store.
The guy doing the review video said
"I just bought this knife for the review on (the unmentionable here big auction site)
for "ONLY $60.⁰⁰ PLUS SHIPPING, AND AT THAT PRICE I STOLE IT!!!"
Discontinued Rough Rider/Ryder knives on AAPK are selling for 2x to 3x the "when new" price.
(admittedly, still under $30~$40 for the most part ... You ain't gonna pay Junior's college tuition ... or lab fees and what some text books cost ... sellin' off your Rough Riders/Ryders ... or Case/GEC for that matter.
Amazingly used and discontinued standard Rough Rider/Ryder, and the offshore COLT, Marbles and Schrade prices are going up; not (to be honest, as I expected) stagnent or dropping.
UPDATE
I recently won a CASE 10375 "Green & Black" Micarta (I must be color blind ... I see no green) stockman, made inside the last couple years.
No issues other than a VERY slight blade rub tween the Sheepsfoot and Spey. (BTW, Case claims blade rub is to be expected on the stockman pattern, and is NOT covered under their warranty. That RR, Marbles, Böker, GEC, and others can build two spring three blade stockmans without blade rub is irrelevant.
)
). It’s what makes collecting pocket knives so interesting.
My expectations are lower than the Mariana Trench. 
, with TWO strikes against me: