Buying Chinese goods supports a Regime of Evil, Dishonesty and Despicable human rights!
This is the only way I can answer your thoughts!
Buy a Case!! Made in The USA! Support Local industry,
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cityboystu
,assuming of course you are here in North America!
Rough Rider, is an AMERICAN Company, based in the mountains of Tennessee. Not a Chinese company. BTI, who currently owns the Schrade family of brands is also an AMERICAN company.
The Buck 37x and 38x are made offshore. If/when I buy one, the majority of the money goes to Buck. (Buck does have to pay their offshore manufacturers) Many of the Buck one hand openers and flippers and some of the not 100 series knives are made off shore.
Buck is an American company.
BTW if your car is newer than 1995 it is loaded with components made in China, no matter what brand vehicle you have.
Your Apple/Mac was made in China and assembled in Mexico, your PC was made and possibly assembled in China, most Medications, prescription and otherwise are made in China, or the major ingredients are ... (for example, the codeine (an Opiate) in my pain pills is made in China, since Opium is not grown and processed in the USA; at lease not in "commercial quantities".)
So, I wanted to get some opinions on this. I love Case knives for the cost, looks, and the old time feel of them. That being said, I stumbled across Rough Ryder, Kissing Crane, and Steel Warrior knives while browsing. Does anyone have any knives from these three and how would you compare them to similar Case knives?
Thanks in advance for the responses.
I have roughly 50 Rough Rider traditionals.
Fit and finish is near flawless. No noticeable to the bare eyes gaps, pulls on all the blade are a smooth "5", they have been consistently arm hair shaving sharp out of the box. No blade wiggle/wobble. A few blades have not been perfectly centered, however, they don't hit the liners.
Unlike Case (who specifically state on their website that there WILL be blade rub on a two spring three blade stockman) Rough Rider can and does make a two spring three blade large (4.25 inch closed) stockman that does NOT have blade rub, and the blades DO NOT hit the liners, either.
I'm not bashing Case. They make a good albeit somewhat expensive knife.
However, Rough Rider makes patterns that Case does not. The Barlow, for example. Yes, case "took the Barlow out of the vault" in 2019. Case is not making a Barlow in 2020. The "Vault Knife" for 2020 is a two blade slipjoint folding hunter. A regular production model by Rough Rider, Marbles, Boker, and more. All of Case's competitors with the possible exceptions of GEC, (who knows when they will do another run of Barlow's?) Utica and Buck currently makes a Barlow.
Rough Rider uses well heat treated 440A stainless blade steel or T10 carbon steel.
My Rough Riders take and hold an edge just as long if not longer than my SS Case, USA Schrade, and 420HC USA Buck 301.
My Colt canoe with carbon steel blade holds an edge just as well as my carbon steel Case canoe. (The Colt carbon steel knives were moved over to Rough Rider when they lost or gave up the license to make Colt knives)
Check out the Rough Rider and Related Slipjoints thread. It might be 7 or 9 pages under page 1 by now.
Rough Rider has a good reputation.
