Rough Rider & Related Slipjoints

Also have the Marbles Cattle knife and a Marbles Whittler due in soon. Both in brown stag bone; shot gun bone just doesn't appeal here. Nice knife tho.
Rich
 
paulhilborn said:
@ GT, that's a great looking knife:thumbup: really like the bone covers, that spacer between the bone and bolsters is a nice touch as well.

Nice swedges, that's a lot of knife for the price and a great one to try your hand at an EO notch. I use a drum sander attachment on my Dremel and go slow. I check and re-check the EO placement then proceed. I finish the notch with 600 to 1,000 grit wet/dry sandpaper:thumbup:
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Thanks, Paul; thanks especially for some specific hints on an EO mod! :thumbup::thumbup:
I can use all the help I can get. :D:(:D

- GT
 
not sure if anyone has posted these,but they are
some really well built knives....The back spring will chop tip of your
finger off if not careful.......
And some of the blades have halfstops....Some of my favorites....
This one reminds me of the Schatt/Morgan File/Wire series....

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And this stockman is BIG

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I just received my first China-made Colt and Robert Klaas knives. These are both four bladed stockman type knives, a pattern I really enjoy. The Colt has "bone stag" covers and the Robert Klass has yellow synthetic, the first examples of both types in my collection. You can see that the Colt has mirror polished blades. It arrived with some scratches on the main blade, but that doesn't bother me.







The fit and finish of both of these knives is very nice, especially for knives that I spent less than $20 apiece. The pull on the blades is 4-7 on the "pull scale" with the smaller blades being slightly heavier than the large ones.





Of course, what attracts me to this type of knife is the "fourth blade." The Robert Klaas has a nice little hawkbill, while the Colt has a (very very sharp) leather punch.



They both have a very nice selection of blades. Beside the main clip points and fourth blades, the Robert Klass has small clip point and small pen knife blades. The Colt has spey and pen blades.



All in all, I am very happy with both of these knives. The Colt is definitely fancier, with the mirror polish and swedges on every blade. The Robert Klass is thinner and very pocketable. Both knives can shave arm hair out of the box, and I really like the blade selection on each knife. Now all I have to do decide which one I want to carry!
 
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Both the Klaas and Colt are really nice. I've several Colt knives including the 3 blade stockman; some bone stag, some stag. I'm impressed with the quality of the Rough Rider, Colt, Marbles and Klaas knives. Don't know how they can produce knives of this level for the prices charged. IMHO (ready for the flames to begin), they are on a par with the "beanie babies" Case is producing these days.

Rich
 
I just noticed that the Robert Klaas has a thin swedge on its main blade, and that its blades are very thin. I think I'm going to carry this one for a while, first.

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Nixelplix said:
I just noticed that the Robert Klaas has a thin swedge on its main blade, and that its blades are very thin. I think I'm going to carry this one for a while, first.
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Josh, I like the detailing on my Colts as well, and like the simple designs of the Klass knives. I have a couple of the Klass knives as well, and their thinner blades and more refined edge angles make them really great slicers.

The steel on both knives is quite nice for work knives, and each have a home in the carry rotation with me (along with a lot of others!). Like yours, the knives I have from these two companies are great.

Robert
 
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I like the stockman also (3 blades for me), but if you want a heavy duty work knife take a look at the Rought Rider Heavy Duty Lockback Hunter - only 3 inches but a very thick blade. Looks like you could take down an oak tree with it :-)
Rich
 
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Got my first Rough Rider yesterday in spite of constant berating by a knife knut friend of mine who sees anything Chinese as "junk".
I picked it up at a local store and it is a 4 blade Congress with green gunstock bone and of course the standard stainless blades.
First impressions are good. Lots of snap and the blades came sharp out of the box. Love the looks of the handles and it seems VERY solid.
I would compare it to the Frost and Parker Japanese knives of the eighties which sold for little of nothing yet were very well made pieces of equipment if not even a little better!
This is the first Congress I have owned since an old red plastic Kissing Crane I had 25 years ago and foolishly let go for a song.
I'm not saying the RR is the quality of a 30 year old Crane but it is nothing to turn a nose up at either....even though my friends will do just that when they see me carrying it :)
 
sandmountainslim said:
Got my first Rough Rider yesterday in spite of constant berating by a knife knut friend of mine who sees anything Chinese as "junk".
I picked it up at a local store and it is a 4 blade Congress with green gunstock bone and of course the standard stainless blades.
First impressions are good. Lots of snap and the blades came sharp out of the box. Love the looks of the handles and it seems VERY solid.
I would compare it to the Frost and Parker Japanese knives of the eighties which sold for little of nothing yet were very well made pieces of equipment if not even a little better!
This is the first Congress I have owned since an old red plastic Kissing Crane I had 25 years ago and foolishly let go for a song.
I'm not saying the RR is the quality of a 30 year old Crane but it is nothing to turn a nose up at either....even though my friends will do just that when they see me carrying it :)
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Nice!
 
Second day with the Robert Klaas "Fourmaster" and I am falling in love with it. I really love the selection of blades, and I think they are thinner than any other knife I have save my exacto. The walk and talk is crisp. I saw that they don't seem to be in production anymore so I went ahead and bought a "back up" to store in my knife box.
 
Sandmountainslim, would you post some pics of the RR congress? The stock photos of rough riders are poor across the board. I've been looking at that one but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I almost hate to ask since your time is probably worth more than the asking price of the knife :D
 
bluedave said:
Sandmountainslim, would you post some pics of the RR congress? The stock photos of rough riders are poor across the board. I've been looking at that one but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I almost hate to ask since your time is probably worth more than the asking price of the knife :D
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Here are a few pics of my Rough Rider congress. It's a very nice knife, IMHO.


 
sandmountainslim said:
Got my first Rough Rider yesterday in spite of constant berating by a knife knut friend of mine who sees anything Chinese as "junk".
I picked it up at a local store and it is a 4 blade Congress with green gunstock bone and of course the standard stainless blades.
First impressions are good. Lots of snap and the blades came sharp out of the box. Love the looks of the handles and it seems VERY solid.
I would compare it to the Frost and Parker Japanese knives of the eighties which sold for little of nothing yet were very well made pieces of equipment if not even a little better!
This is the first Congress I have owned since an old red plastic Kissing Crane I had 25 years ago and foolishly let go for a song.
I'm not saying the RR is the quality of a 30 year old Crane but it is nothing to turn a nose up at either....even though my friends will do just that when they see me carrying it :)
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Very surprising quality for a ten dollar knife aren't they??:thumbup:
 
I'm really warming to my RR locking canoe. I made the mistake the other day of leaving the house without my pocket knife when I swapped out jeans:eek: No GEC, or my Case stockman or even the "new" vintage Old Timer I recently won. I was at work and up a creek without a paddle....but I did have a Canoe in my desk drawer.

You really do get a lot of performance out of those little knives. I must have opened and broken down at least 3 dozen cardboard boxes. I'm a fan:)
 
bluedave said:
Sandmountainslim, would you post some pics of the RR congress? The stock photos of rough riders are poor across the board. I've been looking at that one but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I almost hate to ask since your time is probably worth more than the asking price of the knife :D
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Here is mine but all I have in a camera on my phone.

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