Remington heritage toothpick (40017)

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Picked up a Remington heritage toothpick a few days ago. Made in China, but not too bad. Couldn't find reviews on it. If I recall, they are made by Buck. Same steel as the Chinese slipjoints they make. Overall doesn't seem too bad. I did have to clean out a lot of crud and add 2 drops of 3 in 1 over 24 hours (lots of opening and closing while reading and TV). Locks up nice and no blade play so far (my small Bantam developed all kinds of blade play after 1 week light use). Blade could shave a patch of my arm right out of the box. Looks like a slightly fancier version of the Buck Chinese toothpick. Next to "China" on one side of the blade is what looks like a Buck date marking thingy (a sideways capital T with a dot after it). Sorry no pics currently. Anyone else pick one up and try it yet? Not just the toothpick, but any of the heritage line. Seems to not be bad for under $20. I plan to get a Buck USA made stockman to make up for getting a cheap import, ha ha.
 
The Chinese make perfectly good knives, whether we like it or not. My Buck slipjoints are mostly Camillusses, though I have a Buck-made flat-ground 303 and a double-ender from Japan.
 
brownshoe said:
If your toothpick has the funky nail nick shown at the Remington site my guess is it's a Rough Rider not a Buck. Here is the Remington version: https://www.remingtoncutlery.com/product/r40017br-heritage-series-toothpick/R40017BR-B/
and here is the Buck version: https://www.buckknives.com/product/385-toothpick-knife/0385BRS-B/
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I was in a fishing trip when you posted that and and missed it, my apologies. Amusingly enough, in that time I got home and found my SMKW catalog and saw the same thing. I heard unconfirmed info Buck did them. Even though I see the nailnick detail I think they did because, I realized the Buck date mark lasered on the Remington knife matches the date mark stamped on my Buck Bantam BBW I bought this year. I may be wrong, it happens enough I appreciate corrections, ha ha. How else do we learn?
 
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