I agree with you entirely, I wish they'd do some more traditional designs in their reserve series. Gotta say that this one doesn't catch my fancy at all.
That frame is pretty cool, with the skinny end sweeping up to the fatter, with the notched-out bolster. You’re right. Could have all kinds of other blades in it.
Hopefully the next one will be more of a traditional pattern.The RRR line looks good with materials and craftsmanship,put it to what people want.Barlow with spear point with those materials would be great or make a nice jack or equal end. Keep the niche knives to the other Rough Rider line.Thks for the video.
Couldn’t agree more, I am hoping to see tried and true traditional knives in the line. As soon as a straight forward Barlow appears in the Reserve line I am gonna snag one. I like novelty knives for sure but just won’t pay premium for them. Enjoyed seeing the odd ball knives fun stuff!
Couldn’t agree more that with a couple changes that bar back could be an amazing pattern. If they just made it a single blade wharncliffe I’d be in love with it. As for the Easy Open Razor, I do like mine but would buy it again with a different blade in the same handle. Throw a wharncliffe in that one and you’ve got a salute to the Northwoods Michigan Jack. They are certainly well built so I’ll keep buying them if only to support the brand while they work out the kinks!
The kayak is a good one I'm glad I picked it up. The whittler does have blade rap. And I think I saw a little dent in the cutting edge on your whittler also. The kayak and the whittler are good knives. I'm glad I picked up both of them. But with the Barback I agree with Knife Detector.
The whistle really caught me off guard. The big floating cork knife, the big hook knife were I will be tactful let's say unique. The 2 piece with the extra screwdrivers was pretty decent. Oh I forgot about the monkey wrench knife. They are perfect companions for the Barback. If they made those modifications to the Barback they would have a much easier functioning knife. Enjoyed seeing the other knives.
Looking at the handle of that gaff knife it almost looks as if an initial designer had planned to have the hook flipped around, completely hiding it in the handle. Then a clusterfuck happened in between design and manufacturing.
@@andrewnawarycz3026 , SMKW announced at least two patterns on their Facebook page and on the SMKWarmy page. I recall a single blade Lockback hunter and stockman pattern. I asked about Micarta and they announced the first 16 are in micarta.
Thankyou for the info Tobias, I'll look into it. At worst get another 003 whittler and re-profile the main blade into a straight edge Wharncliffe! Put a straight edge against the bottom of yours and see what you think?
I’m sure being the most reasonably priced help it sell out. Not only sell out but sell out faster than any knife in the series. And more than one person has mentioned it’s one and blade actually does what it is suppose to do. Considering price point, it’s functionality, and the materials used, I’d say you are probably correct in it being the best one so far.
I think the best thing to do would be to just make this a single-bladed knife. Do you really need two blades here? That would also address the thickness issue.
Ìs it an Edsel? yeah pretty much, then again i like Edsels. It's not a great joy to use i guess but it has its value nevertheless. As an oddball it does fit in your line-up this video. Also it is nice to see some strange mmodels on knives, I never imagined they excisted! So a big thank you for that. Thumbs up again
I thought “Edsel” would be a good moniker. It’s like cult movies. Some times they are so bad they get a life of their own. The Edsel has been a very popular car for a long time simply because they were a flop. But if you’re going to a car show, who doesn’t want to see a perfectly restored Edsel ? And part of the mystique is it’s utter failure as a design when released.
Clarification, I just realized I meant that the knife might morph into something better, not the video. The video was excellent. Sorry for poorly written 1st comment
What never fails watching you videos is you whip out some knife I never saw before; and the ones you have so far shown cased; exceeded all videos in the past .Now days a lot of wine used in restaurants comes from boxes and bottles with twist off lids. The trend now; is to open wine bottles with corks is using a CO2 opener that pushes out the cork with pressure from inside the bottle. It is supposed to keep the wine from being contaminated from the cork. If you use a traditional corkscrew on a $200 dollar bottle of wine you don’t want to screw it up opening it. Maybe this is not such a bad Bartenders knife after all. I don’t think it needs to go into the bad design box just yet.
Interesting thought in modern opening techniques as well as typical bar wine. I collect bartender knives and waiter tools and as a subset of my knife collection. Strangely the corkscrew in my kitchen is much more practical than any of these tools. But I still try the olds one now and then just do I can how well they work. Some absolutely suck!
I’m not a huge fan of this one, that cap lifter blade just turns me off. I suppose if the price was lower, I might buy it. That floater knife is really interesting . I can’t swim, so I generally stay away from water, but if I was cutting something in the bathtub, it might come in handy :)
Every time I pick up that RRR I shake my head and wonder why I bought it. It really isn’t worth $50. Truly just a novelty. I feel like I was ripped off! I will be very wary of anything else in the RRR line up. As I’ve said a couple times. Others try to compare these to GECs. I see them as what they are. A limited Run Rough Ryder with what should’ve better QC and better materials. D2is a step up. Micarta not so much. What’s more I want to see brass liners.
As an automotive guy, I'd say yes, this was the '59 Edsel (not the '58...the '58 had WAY more problems). But for different reasons. The '59 Edsel compared to the hideous '58 was the "blah" Edsel. It was just odd enough that it got some interest, but was otherwise in all but one case competing internally with high-end Fords and low-end Mercurys. It was neither hideous like the '58, but nor was it the beautiful and tragic 1960 Edsel (GM admitted they ripped off the Pontiac grille for that coming decade from the '60 Edsel, and c'mon, most of us love sixties Pontiacs). Why get a low-end Edsel when you could buy a Ford Sunliner? Why get a high-end Edsel when you could get a low-end Mercury? DeSoto had the same problem with internal competition in 1959 and 1960 with Dodge and Chrysler, and that was tragic, because the DeSoto Sportsman from those years was one of the most beautiful cars of its era; it was just that DeSoto rebranded into the "sport and luxury" brand that GM had with Oldsmobile at the worst possible time. Anyone with an appreciation for late fifties cars and functional eyes knows the DeSoto from that era was a beautiful expression of Virgil Exner's design language. But the '59 Edsel was the ultimate "blah" car of its era that tried doing something a little different, but not a lot different. And that was fatal to the brand; when the '60 Edsel Ranger and Villager station wagon came along and people thought it was a truly gorgeous car...nobody was willing to try it because the '58 was a disaster and the '59 was blah.
Thanks for the lessons on late 50s automobiles. I think the 59 Edsel Grill has a certain charm but it was no 1959 Chevrolet Impala. The 60 Edsel was a major improvement. And yeah, I can see the Pontiac Rip-off. I guess the Edsel was full of misplaced potential and that does describe this knife.
@@KnifeChatswithTobias Happy to share my automotive knowledge! I was very good friends with Dick Browne, a gentleman who was basically the mover and shaker in Chrysler's Overseas Division beginning around 1959. Dick in turn introduced me to some of his old competition and they all said it: GM realized the potential for the grille, which they initially stayed away from in 1961 and 1962 because they figured "okay, they're still releasing a nominal Edsel" (the Comet...it wasn't formally the Mercury Comet until I think '64; it was supposed to be released as an Edsel). As the Comet moved away from split grilles immediately--and it was a looker, just not one styled the way GM thought it would be--they realized MOPAR was committed to Virgil Exner's Forward Look and continuously evolving that, so they figured "pfft, they just designed our grille for us!" And that shows up in the less exaggerated, more tastefully done 1963 Pontiac grilles ('62 looked pretty good too, but they just put it in as a stopgap, particularly with the Catalina, which was what their original "answer" to the Edsel looked like). The Edsel WAS full of potential, and that includes the Comet, which was basically an up-engined Ford Falcon with nice trim scheduled to be released as an Edsel (if you ever see the factory keyring, it's literally the Edsel keyring with the center bar on the "E" removed! You can even see an uneven area on the casting where it was supposed to be!). By 1960, they simultaneously had figured the brand out, had it no longer internally competing...and realized they had to kill it, all in the same motion. The Bar Back is likewise internally competing with both the Common Stock and the Bartender's Knife, and unlike the DeSoto where people were still buying them and it was more on MOPAR for a badly-timed rebrand (which is to say, competing with Oldsmobile all of a sudden rather than Buick) that was frankly a systemic issue*, the Bar Back, like Edsel, also has issues with the design itself, not just its marketing. *MOPAR had literal five-year plans for their car brands. Dick used to joke that he wondered if that's why Joseph McCarthy always drove GMs and Fords.
Well, I’m going to jump in here before hand. Yes I feel this is it. Love the brand and what they are doing however I do not prefer this one. Tobias, My ID here was formerly Evan but now I have my own.
I don’t drink much beer so the cap lifter doesn’t do anything for me. If it had a full Wharncliffe rather than the caplifter blade I would buy two of them.
I think they were blinded by their enthusiasm for the design as it appeared on paper. They really needed an independent focus group. Mind you I’ve been accused of being a Rough Ryder Fan Boy but in reality I’m a person who likes a quality knife at an affordable price. When Rough Rider “screws the pooch” I call them on it. This was an epic fail in practicality. Whoops! I can pop open a cold one without opening my knife. Now if I could only use my secondary blade on my knife comfortably!
The whittler.... Is it only named the whittler for the pattern, or can you really whittle with it? It seems way to big and to thick for actual whittling, to me.
Whittler does refer to a pattern. Typically the larger frame whittlers, especially those with a coping blade are some times called a "Carpenter's Whittler" as they were popular among cabinet makers. Essentially the blades on a whittler are normally more useful for wood work than other chores such as skinning animals. This is alos why the blade at the top often is hel in place with two springs; as it is designed for heavy cuts into wood.
They have announced the next four. Still no Barlow but at least none of them are 100% goofy. Perhaps there is still hope for a Barlow. Supposedly the series is up to 16.
The blades in that kayak are terrible looking . I really like the easy open razor . it finds its way in my pocket alot . I really hope that the RRR line goes more traditional in the future .
Yeah, I didn't really care for that one, was probably my ;least favorite of the reserve series. That being said, looks well made, I just don't care for the design at all.
Looks like this Edsel is followed by yet another Edsel in the form of the RRR Rhino Toe. For me the other RRR Edsel is the Kayak, for a canoe design, there is a large gap between the ends of the blades and the bolster, such that there is a pocket shredder on both ends of the canoe. Which to me means whoever designed the Kayak literally missed the entire point of the canoe design, which is to have a completely smooth knife when the blades are all closed. Sigh, I will no longer buy Rough Ryder Reserve knives before seeing reviews.
Great knives but expensive in the UK. The whittler is the equivalent of $110! Such a shame we get ripped off in the UK when buying American products. Maybe that will change now we’re finally out of the EU
Frankly, that Bar Back just looks like a half baked design. I would say they completely missed the mark. Just looking at it I can see it would be extremely uncomfortable to work with the spear blade having that much blade sticking out of the handle. The wasted space just shows the failure to really hash out the design. I would call a Swisschamp more practical as a bar or fishing tool than any of those.
I'm unconvinced by this RRR range. The easy-open razor is okay, but the multi-bladed knives are a failure to my eye. Too much trying to be different just for the hell of it, and MUCH TOO FAT - you could fit four blades into the well of the Kayak, which I returned the day I received it. Thank you for highlighting the excessive girth, I was getting laughed at for pointing it out when these monsters first appeared. There is no elegance here, and not much practicality either.
Hopefully they will get their act straight. I think many folks are looking for a more refinement, tighter quality control, and classic traditional patterns you don't see every day. I missed the brass liners, and would like to see top quality woods and natural materials but apparently they wood will shrink coming across the ocean! And my feeling is as much as they want us to compare the RR-Reserves to Great Eastern they are ultimately going to be compared to other Rough Ryders. D2 blades and Micarta handles coming out of China are not going to be enough to sustain the Reserve line up, especially when you can D2 blades on knives at half the price and Micarta has becomes as common as dirt.
It's a good knife, but I would prefer to see some traditional patterns with traditional material like carbon steel and bone or stag handles.
I enjoyed seeing your odd ball knife collection. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with you entirely, I wish they'd do some more traditional designs in their reserve series. Gotta say that this one doesn't catch my fancy at all.
That frame is pretty cool, with the skinny end sweeping up to the fatter, with the notched-out bolster. You’re right. Could have all kinds of other blades in it.
Hopefully the next one will be more of a traditional pattern.The RRR line looks good with materials and craftsmanship,put it to what people want.Barlow with spear point with those materials would be great or make a nice jack or equal end.
Keep the niche knives to the other Rough Rider line.Thks for the video.
For some strange reason I like the quirkyness of this knife as well. I say leave it alone, she's fine as is!👍
Couldn’t agree more, I am hoping to see tried and true traditional knives in the line. As soon as a straight forward Barlow appears in the Reserve line I am gonna snag one. I like novelty knives for sure but just won’t pay premium for them. Enjoyed seeing the odd ball knives fun stuff!
Excellent idea you have on the Barback Tobias, keep the pattern, narrow down the width, and add a colorful bone handle.
Man Tobias you always have knives I have never seen before. Loving it!
That cork knife is ridiculous. Thanks for sharing that. Never seen anything like that.
Couldn’t agree more that with a couple changes that bar back could be an amazing pattern. If they just made it a single blade wharncliffe I’d be in love with it. As for the Easy Open Razor, I do like mine but would buy it again with a different blade in the same handle. Throw a wharncliffe in that one and you’ve got a salute to the Northwoods Michigan Jack. They are certainly well built so I’ll keep buying them if only to support the brand while they work out the kinks!
I like the larger RRR's like this one. They are sharp! I need to pick one up.
Fish priest! I’d seen something similar at a gun show and heard it was for dispatching fish but never knew its name. Glad I caught this video.
Your Rocket Whistle almost gave me a heart attack.
I recorded the video a few weeks ago. I had forgot about the whistle. Caught me off guard as well!
Great video as always! I agree with the half whittler suggestion.
The kayak is a good one I'm glad I picked it up. The whittler does have blade rap. And I think I saw a little dent in the cutting edge on your whittler also. The kayak and the whittler are good knives. I'm glad I picked up both of them. But with the Barback I agree with Knife Detector.
The whistle really caught me off guard. The big floating cork knife, the big hook knife were I will be tactful let's say unique. The 2 piece with the extra screwdrivers was pretty decent. Oh I forgot about the monkey wrench knife. They are perfect companions for the Barback. If they made those modifications to the Barback they would have a much easier functioning knife. Enjoyed seeing the other knives.
Good sized knifes, thanks for sharing
Thanks. Glad you like it. Thanks also for dropping by and leaving your thoughts!
Looking at the handle of that gaff knife it almost looks as if an initial designer had planned to have the hook flipped around, completely hiding it in the handle. Then a clusterfuck happened in between design and manufacturing.
The RRR whittler's the best of the lot so far, no qualms with mine. Been enjoying it as my EDC for the past 4mths
I agree. Best of the lot so far and better than the two up coming ones I’ve seen announced.
Could you let me know where the announcement was made please Tobias, and check it out for myself 👍
@@andrewnawarycz3026 , SMKW announced at least two patterns on their Facebook page and on the SMKWarmy page. I recall a single blade Lockback hunter and stockman pattern. I asked about Micarta and they announced the first 16 are in micarta.
Thankyou for the info Tobias, I'll look into it. At worst get another 003 whittler and re-profile the main blade into a straight edge Wharncliffe! Put a straight edge against the bottom of yours and see what you think?
Appropriate Title for the review. Hopefully this will morph into something better in future productions. I like the Half Whittler Idea.
How about a 5" Toothpick or a Large Barlow or a Large Elephant's Toe in something other than Micarta?
Yay kitty. Cool knives
I agree with Jimmy J, let's see some RRR's in nice sambar stag.
You can open the one arm razor the way it was designed to be open. It's also the only one that sold out and in my opinion the best one so far.
I’m sure being the most reasonably priced help it sell out. Not only sell out but sell out faster than any knife in the series. And more than one person has mentioned it’s one and blade actually does what it is suppose to do. Considering price point, it’s functionality, and the materials used, I’d say you are probably correct in it being the best one so far.
@@KnifeChatswithTobias I think they all reasonably priced,but the razor is just reasonable 🙂
I think the best thing to do would be to just make this a single-bladed knife. Do you really need two blades here? That would also address the thickness issue.
I think all 4 of the rough ryder reserve knives are kind of novelty.
Yep, it’s a 1959 Edsel, not quite as weird as a 1958, but definitely not “normal Ford” looking like a 1960. 😃
Ìs it an Edsel? yeah pretty much, then again i like Edsels. It's not a great joy to use i guess but it has its value nevertheless. As an oddball it does fit in your line-up this video. Also it is nice to see some strange mmodels on knives, I never imagined they excisted! So a big thank you for that. Thumbs up again
I thought “Edsel” would be a good moniker. It’s like cult movies. Some times they are so bad they get a life of their own.
The Edsel has been a very popular car for a long time simply because they were a flop. But if you’re going to a car show, who doesn’t want to see a perfectly restored Edsel ? And part of the mystique is it’s utter failure as a design when released.
The other Reserves sold out, I am going to say this one won't sell out too quick. Kind of a niche knife.
Going to the land of misfit knives/toys. Right next to the water pistol thats shoots grape jelly!
Clarification, I just realized I meant that the knife might morph into something better, not the video. The video was excellent. Sorry for poorly written 1st comment
What never fails watching you videos is you whip out some knife I never saw before; and the ones you have so far shown cased; exceeded all videos in the past .Now days a lot of wine used in restaurants comes from boxes and bottles with twist off lids. The trend now; is to open wine bottles with corks is using a CO2 opener that pushes out the cork with pressure from inside the bottle. It is supposed to keep the wine from being contaminated from the cork. If you use a traditional corkscrew on a $200 dollar bottle of wine you don’t want to screw it up opening it. Maybe this is not such a bad Bartenders knife after all. I don’t think it needs to go into the bad design box just yet.
Interesting thought in modern opening techniques as well as typical bar wine. I collect bartender knives and waiter tools and as a subset of my knife collection. Strangely the corkscrew in my kitchen is much more practical than any of these tools. But I still try the olds one now and then just do I can how well they work. Some absolutely suck!
I’m not a huge fan of this one, that cap lifter blade just turns me off. I suppose if the price was lower, I might buy it. That floater knife is really interesting . I can’t swim, so I generally stay away from water, but if I was cutting something in the bathtub, it might come in handy :)
Every time I pick up that RRR I shake my head and wonder why I bought it. It really isn’t worth $50. Truly just a novelty. I feel like I was ripped off! I will be very wary of anything else in the RRR line up. As I’ve said a couple times. Others try to compare these to GECs. I see them as what they are. A limited Run Rough Ryder with what should’ve better QC and better materials. D2is a step up. Micarta not so much. What’s more I want to see brass liners.
As an automotive guy, I'd say yes, this was the '59 Edsel (not the '58...the '58 had WAY more problems). But for different reasons. The '59 Edsel compared to the hideous '58 was the "blah" Edsel. It was just odd enough that it got some interest, but was otherwise in all but one case competing internally with high-end Fords and low-end Mercurys. It was neither hideous like the '58, but nor was it the beautiful and tragic 1960 Edsel (GM admitted they ripped off the Pontiac grille for that coming decade from the '60 Edsel, and c'mon, most of us love sixties Pontiacs). Why get a low-end Edsel when you could buy a Ford Sunliner? Why get a high-end Edsel when you could get a low-end Mercury? DeSoto had the same problem with internal competition in 1959 and 1960 with Dodge and Chrysler, and that was tragic, because the DeSoto Sportsman from those years was one of the most beautiful cars of its era; it was just that DeSoto rebranded into the "sport and luxury" brand that GM had with Oldsmobile at the worst possible time. Anyone with an appreciation for late fifties cars and functional eyes knows the DeSoto from that era was a beautiful expression of Virgil Exner's design language. But the '59 Edsel was the ultimate "blah" car of its era that tried doing something a little different, but not a lot different. And that was fatal to the brand; when the '60 Edsel Ranger and Villager station wagon came along and people thought it was a truly gorgeous car...nobody was willing to try it because the '58 was a disaster and the '59 was blah.
Thanks for the lessons on late 50s automobiles. I think the 59 Edsel Grill has a certain charm but it was no 1959 Chevrolet Impala. The 60 Edsel was a major improvement. And yeah, I can see the Pontiac Rip-off. I guess the Edsel was full of misplaced potential and that does describe this knife.
@@KnifeChatswithTobias Happy to share my automotive knowledge! I was very good friends with Dick Browne, a gentleman who was basically the mover and shaker in Chrysler's Overseas Division beginning around 1959. Dick in turn introduced me to some of his old competition and they all said it: GM realized the potential for the grille, which they initially stayed away from in 1961 and 1962 because they figured "okay, they're still releasing a nominal Edsel" (the Comet...it wasn't formally the Mercury Comet until I think '64; it was supposed to be released as an Edsel). As the Comet moved away from split grilles immediately--and it was a looker, just not one styled the way GM thought it would be--they realized MOPAR was committed to Virgil Exner's Forward Look and continuously evolving that, so they figured "pfft, they just designed our grille for us!" And that shows up in the less exaggerated, more tastefully done 1963 Pontiac grilles ('62 looked pretty good too, but they just put it in as a stopgap, particularly with the Catalina, which was what their original "answer" to the Edsel looked like).
The Edsel WAS full of potential, and that includes the Comet, which was basically an up-engined Ford Falcon with nice trim scheduled to be released as an Edsel (if you ever see the factory keyring, it's literally the Edsel keyring with the center bar on the "E" removed! You can even see an uneven area on the casting where it was supposed to be!). By 1960, they simultaneously had figured the brand out, had it no longer internally competing...and realized they had to kill it, all in the same motion. The Bar Back is likewise internally competing with both the Common Stock and the Bartender's Knife, and unlike the DeSoto where people were still buying them and it was more on MOPAR for a badly-timed rebrand (which is to say, competing with Oldsmobile all of a sudden rather than Buick) that was frankly a systemic issue*, the Bar Back, like Edsel, also has issues with the design itself, not just its marketing.
*MOPAR had literal five-year plans for their car brands. Dick used to joke that he wondered if that's why Joseph McCarthy always drove GMs and Fords.
Well, I’m going to jump in here before hand. Yes I feel this is it. Love the brand and what they are doing however I do not prefer this one. Tobias, My ID here was formerly Evan but now I have my own.
I don’t drink much beer so the cap lifter doesn’t do anything for me. If it had a full Wharncliffe rather than the caplifter blade I would buy two of them.
That would've made more sense and been easier to hold!
I see what they were TRYING to do, but didn’t anyone think about the ergonomics?
I think they were blinded by their enthusiasm for the design as it appeared on paper. They really needed an independent focus group.
Mind you I’ve been accused of being a Rough Ryder Fan Boy but in reality I’m a person who likes a quality knife at an affordable price. When Rough Rider “screws the pooch” I call them on it. This was an epic fail in practicality. Whoops! I can pop open a cold one without opening my knife. Now if I could only use my secondary blade on my knife comfortably!
The whittler.... Is it only named the whittler for the pattern, or can you really whittle with it? It seems way to big and to thick for actual whittling, to me.
Whittler does refer to a pattern. Typically the larger frame whittlers, especially those with a coping blade are some times called a "Carpenter's Whittler" as they were popular among cabinet makers. Essentially the blades on a whittler are normally more useful for wood work than other chores such as skinning animals. This is alos why the blade at the top often is hel in place with two springs; as it is designed for heavy cuts into wood.
@@KnifeChatswithTobias Thank you, Sir.
Just make a quality Barlow in a clip point with natural cover materials.
They have announced the next four. Still no Barlow but at least none of them are 100% goofy. Perhaps there is still hope for a Barlow. Supposedly the series is up to 16.
The blades in that kayak are terrible looking . I really like the easy open razor . it finds its way in my pocket alot . I really hope that the RRR line goes more traditional in the future .
Ditto - I sent the Kayak back the day I received it. The razor is okay.
Yeah, I didn't really care for that one, was probably my ;least favorite of the reserve series. That being said, looks well made, I just don't care for the design at all.
Looks like this Edsel is followed by yet another Edsel in the form of the RRR Rhino Toe. For me the other RRR Edsel is the Kayak, for a canoe design, there is a large gap between the ends of the blades and the bolster, such that there is a pocket shredder on both ends of the canoe. Which to me means whoever designed the Kayak literally missed the entire point of the canoe design, which is to have a completely smooth knife when the blades are all closed. Sigh, I will no longer buy Rough Ryder Reserve knives before seeing reviews.
Great knives but expensive in the UK. The whittler is the equivalent of $110! Such a shame we get ripped off in the UK when buying American products. Maybe that will change now we’re finally out of the EU
I think you're being too hard on the Edsel. That car had more going for it than this knife seems to.
Frankly, that Bar Back just looks like a half baked design. I would say they completely missed the mark. Just looking at it I can see it would be extremely uncomfortable to work with the spear blade having that much blade sticking out of the handle. The wasted space just shows the failure to really hash out the design. I would call a Swisschamp more practical as a bar or fishing tool than any of those.
And the Swiss Champ is about half the size of the floating cork knife!
Someone really dropped the ball with the Barback.
I have many Rough Ryder knives and this is about the most dumb design I've ever seen.
I am so confused by this knife. I own it and a single blade would have been better.
I'm unconvinced by this RRR range. The easy-open razor is okay, but the multi-bladed knives are a failure to my eye. Too much trying to be different just for the hell of it, and MUCH TOO FAT - you could fit four blades into the well of the Kayak, which I returned the day I received it. Thank you for highlighting the excessive girth, I was getting laughed at for pointing it out when these monsters first appeared. There is no elegance here, and not much practicality either.
Hopefully they will get their act straight. I think many folks are looking for a more refinement, tighter quality control, and classic traditional patterns you don't see every day. I missed the brass liners, and would like to see top quality woods and natural materials but apparently they wood will shrink coming across the ocean! And my feeling is as much as they want us to compare the RR-Reserves to Great Eastern they are ultimately going to be compared to other Rough Ryders. D2 blades and Micarta handles coming out of China are not going to be enough to sustain the Reserve line up, especially when you can D2 blades on knives at half the price and Micarta has becomes as common as dirt.
@@KnifeChatswithTobias Totally agree
First 6+ minutes are chatty about things that have nothing to do with the title. Very irritating!