Thrifty Thursday... Cheap Traditional Knives

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Wishing everyone an Amicable August. My thrifty knife this week is a Rough Rider baby copperhead:


- GT

 

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I forgot to post in this thread a week ago. As penance, I'll post a photo of a knife I haven't ever shown on BF until now. It's one of the knives in my Independence Day buying spree, and it cost almost 50% more than my usual $12 limit for "thrifty" knives. But I happen to have a photo of it handy, so behold my oriental "abalone" Queen City canoe:



My thrifty knife for THIS week is a Rough Rider "eureka" stockman:


- GT

 

[black mamba]

Two beauties, Gary! The little Eureka is a wonderful carry.

 

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Two beauties, Gary! The little Eureka is a wonderful carry.

Thanks, Jeff.
I like the almost-sunk joints on that stockman.

- GT

 

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Looks like I'm monopolizing this thread lately, but so it goes. I still adore most of my budget knives!
Here's a Mora Basic 511 I bought last month, one of the very few fixed blades I have. It's pictured after I used it for the very first time as I made breakfast (oatmeal) at the Lake Huron cottage we're renting for the last 2 weeks of August.


- GT

 

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Rough Rider has some knives that I think are appealing, but I just never seem to get around to ordering them (or they're out of stock when I'm putting an order together). One such knife I've been looking at for years is a spey blade knife with cast brass handles depicting cowboys. I finally ordered one last month.



- GT

 

[jdswitters]

I think I saw them on sale last month and ordered the cowboy knife. I was surprised at how well it was made.

 

[jmh33]

 

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I think I saw them on sale last month and ordered the cowboy knife. I was surprised at how well it was made.

Mine is a very solid knife, too. In fact, mine has a pull that's probably at the upper end of what I'd call acceptable. Can't wait for the brass to patina; it's TOO shiny right now.

- GT

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

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That denim Half Hawk is very nice!!

I recently acquired a Rough Ryder denim micarta canoe. The dealer's description claimed the blades were stainless, but once I started using it, the patina indicated that the blades are some kind of carbon steel, as in jmh33 's Half Hawk above.


- GT

 

[cbach8tw]

That denim Half Hawk is very nice!!

I recently acquired a Rough Ryder denim micarta canoe. The dealer's description claimed the blades were stainless, but once I started using it, the patina indicated that the blades are some kind of carbon steel, as in jmh33 's Half Hawk above.


- GT

My guess it is their T10 (?) or D2.

 

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My guess it is their T10 (?) or D2.

Thanks for the info.
Someone else also suggested that Rough Ryder has been using T10 for their carbon steel blades.

- GT

 

[jmh33]

That denim Half Hawk is very nice!!

I recently acquired a Rough Ryder denim micarta canoe. The dealer's description claimed the blades were stainless, but once I started using it, the patina indicated that the blades are some kind of carbon steel, as in jmh33 's Half Hawk above.


- GT

Thanks.
John

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Old Hunter]

Imperial Frontier Medium Stockman that I bought years ago from a pawnshop for a pittance; the action was dead, but the springs looked good. Spent the evening watching a ballgame in my hotel room while flushing the joints with oil and working the action - still snaps well to this day and the blade steel is that good old Imperial carbon (maybe 1075) that sharpens up like the dickens. OH

 

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Rough Ryder medium stockman with aluminum covers and VG-10 blades:




- GT

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

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A Rough Rider "magician's canoe" I bought in July. (I have NOT yet perfected any magic tricks using the knife. I think I'd prefer to call it a Christmas Canoe.)




- GT

 

[joeradza]

Rough Ryder bow trapper