RosArms any good

[kalama]

looking for a new blade an seen RosArms web site they got some awsome looking blades,but cant find any good feed back,useage,or testing on these blades,looking for some honest opinions on these blades,looking at the nona,taiga,chiftain,tornado,an arrow 3 blades can i take these out an bang them up,use them hard what do you think????????ALOHA

 

[kalama]

some ones got to own 1 of these blades???? hows there warranty couldnt find it on website ????

 

[Gunfucius]

They have their own subforum here at bladeforums. You'd probably get more info there.

 

[Rozen]

I am owning their Cliff. I love it, but the shealth is not high quality.

P.S. I am living about 200 miles far from their production facility, so I have ordered my blade directly from the manufacturer, based in Zlatoust, Russia.

P.P.S. Vassiliy, known here as Nozh2002 owns few of them and made some wonderful photos, placed on his site: http://playground.sun.com/~vasya/RosArms-Ataman.html

 

[nozh2002]

They have best handles in terms of ergonomics I ever see, their stacked birch bark is best handle material to me. Steel is top soviet military stainless similar to BG-42 with additional Vacuum Arc Remelting and Electro Slug Remelting. Gring is hollow for cutting - Russians use hatchets for chopping not knives. This is probably most popular knife company in modern Russia - in terms of market share, their knive are everywhere in any Russian shop for hunters - like Buck here.

Their looks just beautiful (may be to my Russian eyes). But this is like hundreds years old traditional Russian knife designs, shaped this way by generations of hunters, solders...

You need to be aware of few things.
1. Check thickness - most of their models have thin blades, due to Russian antyknife law.
2. Ask for Birch Bark handle - each model have variants of leather, wood or birch bark handles.
3. Sheath may be with thin leather, but ma be with thick.

Thanks, Vassili.

 

[Rozen]

This is probably most popular knife company in modern Russia - in terms of market share, their knive are everywhere in any Russian shop for hunters - like Buck here.

That is not true. They can be met in the hunter's shops here, but rare enough, not everywhere.

P.S. My post does not mean that these knifes are not good. Marketing is a very strange thing....

 

[CWL]

They make beautiful looking knives, but the major complaint that I have read while researching RosArms knives is that they have very thin blades.

I found that the one I bought had too thin of a blade. It also was not ground evenly on both sides. I was able to flex the blade with my fingers.

While this may be fine for "small chores" knives, I do not think that they will last as "bang up" blades. For example, I would have no reservations batoning with any of my Mora knives or Puuko blades, I would not try it with my RosArms blade.

 

[nozh2002]

They make beautiful looking knives, but the major complaint that I have read while researching RosArms knives is that they have very thin blades.

I found that the one I bought had too thin of a blade. It also was not ground evenly on both sides. I was able to flex the blade with my fingers.

While this may be fine for "small chores" knives, I do not think that they will last as "bang up" blades. For example, I would have no reservations batoning with any of my Mora knives or Puuko blades, I would not try it with my RosArms blade.

It depends, all my RosArms knives are 5mm thick - you just need to check when you choose. And I do not see any problem batoning Taiga or Ataman. But thin hollow ground slicer - if thin hollow ground slicer, for slicing.

Thanks, Vassili.

P.S. Review by KVD70

From Kvd70 (www.guns.ru bladeforum):

"At 2000 Motherland sent me to official trip in one of southern republic. When I prepare for this trip I deside to buy knife and choose this one because it looks powerfull, reliable and has kind of predatory grace. It also fit my palm very well. It was not too big, not too heavy, not too ordinary looking. My colleagues that time toke big, massive knives - almost sabers or swords and then during deployment did not carry them at all - too heavy. Real life use for it was only branch chopping, whittling, cutting bread, beaf, ham... Most important bonus feature - because of wide blade you can scoop up a lot of canned beaf from can (almost more then with spoon), very usefull thing in a big famaly

Only one combat situation - I used knife to resist kidnapping attempt on the marketplace. I look intellegent with glasses on my face, so two guys deside I'll be easy target. And I was exteremely lucky becase at that point already take knife away to test smoked beaf, so I reflectevely strike hands to release my gun and Cliff did not fail me. Second guy was so terrified that just freeze with his eyeballs popping out while the first one yell something to him. Then, after gun was released, I start shooting and gundown both, then my friends come to help. All take 10-15 seconds only."

 

[Ozy]

P.S. Review by KVD70

From Kvd70 (www.guns.ru bladeforum):

"At 2000 Motherland sent me to official trip in one of southern republic. When I prepare for this trip I deside to buy knife and choose this one because it looks powerfull, reliable and has kind of predatory grace. It also fit my palm very well. It was not too big, not too heavy, not too ordinary looking. My colleagues that time toke big, massive knives - almost sabers or swords and then during deployment did not carry them at all - too heavy. Real life use for it was only branch chopping, whittling, cutting bread, beaf, ham... Most important bonus feature - because of wide blade you can scoop up a lot of canned beaf from can (almost more then with spoon), very usefull thing in a big famaly

Only one combat situation - I used knife to resist kidnapping attempt on the marketplace. I look intellegent with glasses on my face, so two guys deside I'll be easy target. And I was exteremely lucky becase at that point already take knife away to test smoked beaf, so I reflectevely strike hands to release my gun and Cliff did not fail me. Second guy was so terrified that just freeze with his eyeballs popping out while the first one yell something to him. Then, after gun was released, I start shooting and gundown both, then my friends come to help. All take 10-15 seconds only."

 

[nozh2002]

This is well known story I took from Russian knife forum (with author permission) and translate it. "Tactical knives" post it then as well.

I am not sure if I translated "intelligent" correctly - he means he in the glasses he does not looks like a warrior but more like some intellectual... From other hand that way he put his story together he may actually have some writing talent, as well as fighting skills.

Thanks, Vassili.