Rough Rider & Related Slipjoints

Ace Rimmer said:
I went to the local knife shop yesterday. I started out looking for another pre-2004 Schrade and ended up buying a Case Small Texas Jack. I also picked up a really sweet Rough Rider lockback (RR081). Great fit and finish on this knife, light pull, easy to pinch open, and rock-solid lockup with no play at all. I'm not crazy about Rough Rider's jigged amber bone, which I think looks a bit greenish, but otherwise it's a fantastic knife, and would be so for even more than the $12 price.

The thing that makes this such a special story is that there were two of these in stock, one in an open box on display and the other in its closed box. It really caught my eye and I made a note to go back for it after I finished my other shopping, but when I did the first one was gone! Then I realized that a gentleman was there with his grandson shopping for the boy's first knife for his birthday, and the boy had selected the RR lockback. It was really great to see a young person getting interested in knives, and to listen to his grandfather explaining knife safety and safe handling to him. Pat (the owner) knocked off a couple of dollars to make it a "birthday special" and made sure to caution the boy to never take his knife to school. (Sad to say, as we all carried knives in school when I was young. Or younger. :p)

Well, I bought the second one as planned. I think it's going to make a good working knife for around the house and farm, big enough to do the job but small and slim enough to be unobtrusive in my pocket. I've been considering buying one of the smaller Buck folders for quite a while (like the 501) but wasn't sure I really needed it. For $12 who cares if I need it or not! :D

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I took delivery of my RR081 on Monday. One of the best Riders I have owned.
 
LastRodeo said:
I took delivery of my RR081 on Monday. One of the best Riders I have owned.
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I'm carrying mine today while working around outside, and so far have used it to cut of several callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) shoots (an invasive species of tree). Light and easy to carry and really handy!
 
edbeau said:
I am back again with another Marbles Ram Horn. This time with a MR363 Stockman. I have included a picture of all three of my Marbles Ram Horn knives.

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Very nice collection of Rams Horn. :)
I especially like that stockman. (One of my favorite patterns)
 
Love the barlows. Have all of those except the acorn shield smooth bone. I guess it was out of production before I got started with RRs. My favorite of the RR barlow is the bark bone - a beautiful, easy handling knife.

Rich
 
It seems that there are a lot of great Rough Rider patterns that aren't being made any more. Some have become pretty rare. It is a little strange to think of a Rough Rider knife being hard to obtain collectible! For example, I looked around for another Grand Daddy Barlow, it looks like this pattern, as well as a number of other really cool styles, are getting pretty hard to come by.

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Nixelplix said:
It seems that there are a lot of great Rough Rider patterns that aren't being made any more. Some have become pretty rare. It is a little strange to think of a Rough Rider knife being hard to obtain collectible! For example, I looked around for another Grand Daddy Barlow, it looks like this pattern, as well as a number of other really cool styles, are getting pretty hard to come by.

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Over time, the stigma of Chinese manufacture will probably wear off, much as it did with Japanese goods. Prices will creep up to reach parity with Case. Fifty or sixty years from now, you could hear guys sayin, “man, I wish I had bought a bunch of those Rough Riders, back when you could get one for ten bucks”.
 
Henry Beige said:
Over time, the stigma of Chinese manufacture will probably wear off, much as it did with Japanese goods. Prices will creep up to reach parity with Case. Fifty or sixty years from now, you could hear guys sayin, “man, I wish I had bought a bunch of those Rough Riders, back when you could get one for ten bucks”.
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You won't hear that from me, for two reasons.
1) In 50 or 60 years, I won't be saying ANYTHING! :rolleyes:
2) I ordered 9 more today for 89$ shipped, I think. Merry Christmas to me! :D

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
You won't hear that from me, for two reasons.
1) In 50 or 60 years, I won't be saying ANYTHING! :rolleyes:
2) I ordered 9 more today for 89$ shipped, I think. Merry Christmas to me! :D

- GT
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Stopped by the local shop today to show off another dye job (no pix yet). He's expecting another order of Rough Riders in this week. Dang. :rolleyes:
 
I've commented before on how I don't care for Rough Rider's amber jigged bone, and I posted pictures of my RR081 lockback before and after re-dying it with brown Rit dye. Recently I bought some red Rit dye to brighten up the strawberry bone covers on my RR muskrat, so I decided to use it on my RR whittler, also. I was concerned that the red dye and the yellow bone might produce some kind of orange color, but instead I got this lovely burgundy.

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I've got an expensive French Lag on its way to me as a self Christmas present:cool: But I crave another inexpensive RR as they're decently finished, come in many patterns and I find their steel very edge holdworthy. I'd like a Half Hawk but they seem to be getting scarce tooo_O

The Barlows are outstanding in value, range and they're up for work too, particlarly like the Mini Barlows and the locking version.
 
I really like RR's; have about 30 of them. However, I've noticed their latest offerings seem to all/most have reversed etching on the blades - I do not like! Prefer nice clean, shiny blades. I hope this isn't going to be a trend for the future :-(

Rich
 
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