Recommend a Quality Large Stockman, Brass Bolsters?

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Rough Rider uses coppper, but I don't think they have a stockman in the size range your looking at. My personal opinion Rough Rider are really good knives. On the one pictured the pulls are light,but I looked at 5 the day picked it up and they was all exactly the same.

 

[afishhunter]

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Rough Rider uses coppper, but I don't think they have a stockman in the size range your looking at. My personal opinion Rough Rider are really good knives. On the one pictured the pulls are light, but I looked at 5 the day picked it up and they was all exactly the same.

Rough Ryder has a "large" (3 7/8 inch, same size as a Buck 301 and "new" or "old" Schrade 8OT) copper bolster with copper color TI coated 440A blades. How much longer it will be available, I don't know.

Under $20 with least expensive shipping option, if you shop around, or/and buy direct.
If still available in April or May, I might get one. There a few not cutlery related things I need to get from the big river site, before I buy more cutlery related things.

I agree the Rough Ryder are excellent knives. No "lemons" amongst the 60 or 65 of various patterns I have. A couple of my XL 4 3/8 inch stockmans I've carried for over a year (accumulated time, not consecutive time). Blades are still tight, no Wobbly-Wiggly's, no AWOL shields, and no noticeable with/to nude eye gaps ... and no blade rib on any of my 2 spring stockman's be it a large or XL, or which series. ('A Stroke of Luck; 'Stoneworx'; 'Classic Carbon'; etc.),
I'd say the pull on all 5 of my 3 7/8 inch "large" Rough Ryder/Rough Rider stockman's are a smidgeon more than a Buck 301, and about a smidgeon less than my SAK Huntsman's.

 

[desmobob]

I actually am leaning heavily that way, and am toying with trying to do it myself. I'm pretty mechanical, have built a few fixed-blade knives, and have been a hobbyist woodworker and gun tinkerer most of my life. Probably will find a "junker" knife to try it on first, though.

Sounds like we're the same kind of folks. Heck... just get a couple of junker knives and get to it! I think it would be a great winter project that could leave you with a favorite knife that was full of solid sentimental value.