Just took delivery of one of these, and it is very well made, tight tension when opening, no wobble, no bend in my can opener, just the jog designed into the part. It came wrapped in paper like a FROST Knife too. Definitely better quality that the Schrade Old Timer 230T I ordered at the same time; which is still a decent tool in and of itself. Would be nice however if the bail were biased to stay under the knife instead of in the path of the main blade, even the silly box has the only place for the bail up and covering the end of the big blade. While not too sharp when this knife/tool combo showed up, a couple of minutes on a strop rendered a superbly sharp main blade. Thanks for turning me onto Rough Rider's in general, your video rant about the BIG R on the bolster just popped up in my feed and made me curious. I'm more about hunting or crafting fixed blades, but used to collect a few pocket knives many years ago; most never got carried though and I gave away quite a few of them over the ensuing years. Now you've rekindled that love/hate affair with smaller folders; they are just so dang pretty really, and now I have more than a few on the way.

Awesome looking knife Tobias! Thanks for putting this together. A lovely addition to your camp knife collection!

I an really enjoying this series quite a bit!! Thanks for the run down on the Scout knife Tobias!!

Pretty dang nice, I picked one up as well as the Seahorse Whittler impatiently waiting for them to arrive. I also grabbed a Tiger stripe Bone Scout from RR not sure if it’s a new one but it’s new to Me. Thanks for the review Tobias 👍

Great thoughts on this knife buddy! I think it would look better in black bone!! The black bone just looks sharp!! No pun intended.

Very nice looking knife. Glad it came with a functional cap lifter too! The bend in that can opener is a little strange, but as long as it works, then good to go I guess. Thanks for showing this one, buddy.

Another great moment with the gang. All the best Tobias.

you've really got me into these scout/camp knives now. great video, thanks.

Thanks Tobias for a good review on this new series of Roughies! I love them and the big R doesn’t really bug me one way or the other. I think the blue liner is very nice. I like it when they add that design feature. I definitely want to pick up some of the knives in this series. I love the denim micarta series and it’s one of my favorites to carry. Great video, hope you have a great day!

Thank you for answering a lot of my questions. I bought this earlier.

Great review, Tobias. I have several of the RR camp knives, including this one. Each has its own good and bad points. For instance, I prefer the long awl on the older models. I also prefer the less chunky ones. BUT I love the carbon steel and micarta on this new one. Like other things in life, there's a tradeoff.

Just got this knife recently and so far, I like it very much. It will be interesting to see it patina!

Tobias, it looks like all of your campaigning for Camp knives has paid off. SMKW has come out with a few of them recently, starting with the Camp King, then the Classic Carbon ll, and most recently the Tiger Stripe Scout Knife. Good to see it!

Loved your commentary. Nice kitty.

Good review of your Classic Carbon Scout knife. Wouldn't have thought of running hot water on a carbon bladed knife but obviously it worked. Thanks Tobias.

I was at SMKW this past weekend and I bought some Rough Ryders . I picked up the nomad , smooth bone cotton sampler , and the marlin spike .

Great video! I just ordered this one!

Nice knife, great video. Just curious, is there much difference between knife oil and plain gun oil? I know alot of the various firearms lubricants promise the moon but really aren't much different than old 10W-30 motor oil. Is there something special about the properties of knife oil?

I grabbed the pen knife and bow trapper so far . The tiger stripe camp knife looks nice also . I'm also going to grab the Marbles camp knife in G10 .

Love Rough Ryder as you well know!😁

This thing really pushed all my nostalgia buttons from when I was a kid. Picked one up and have been pretty darn happy with it. Only issue is a bit of blade rub between the main blade and the awl, but not enough I can’t live with it. I previously had a Uncle Henry scout and it was terrible compared to this, cost more and literally started falling apart after a few weeks. I think RR may be the last brand making a decent scout knife anymore.

Great review Tobias as always. Nice knife, but that big honkin R just hurts my eyes. If they would make this with plain bolsters I would be all over it. I have RR knives, and they are great knives. All are R less though. Look forward to your next review.

I bought a Marble's scout knife and the can opener is completely blunt. On my old Cub Scout knife, it was sharpened. And the giant beak... and the hidden nail nick on the punch... Is there any well designed Scout Knife currently in production? It looks like the classic carbon isn't good either.

Scoutknife without R and large toothpick, i hope RR is taking notes. Thank you for the review Tobias.

So far, I have the Canoe Classic Carbon II. By comparison, I have the Red Fox Canoe as well. As you noted, the CCII is heftier than other models. I noted the same. The CCII Canoe is wider and heavier than the Red Fox. The blades themselves are also thicker on the CCII. I don't necessarily mind this. I like a bit of heft to a knife. The scales have a very nice grip to them as well. The fit and finish is better with the Red Fox. The CCII has a notable gap, on the back, between the springs. I recently picked up a second CCII Canoe (in a shipping mix up). It also has the same gap. Thanks for the informative video, as always.

I recently bought a case xx scout knife and it’s my favorite knife I own

Chicago knife works has an amber bone camp knife (RR533). Other than the covers, is that the same as the red one you show here? I definitely prefer the thinner profile and brass spacer. I hope they eventually do a scout knife in smooth bone and nickel silver. It would also be nice to see them integrate a flathead driver into other patterns. Something with the elegant lines of a sowbelly or copperhead and the versatility of a little driver/light pry tool would be nice for edc.

After seeing this knife; it is a heavy duty version of the older ones. If you wanted a no frills model that will take abuse better under hard use this one is made for that. It’s not pretty and shiny as the older ones. It will look great hanging from a carpenter’s belt and fits the need for a rough use knife to a T. There is less chance of the covers cracking from being dropped and if it does get scratched; up it’s made for that as well. It would be nice if they made different color ones next. They would sell more if they did; basic red, green, blue, yellow, orange and even white ones would sell like hot cakes. The small difference in color to a tradesman makes them know the knife is theirs. If they would exchange the can opener for a hook blade and change the bottle opener to a wood chisel or small sturdy coping blade would make a real work knife no else makes.

I agree completly with what you say about cleaning, but maybe 1 in 10 of new knives I buy need it. I recently bought an RR so full of black shmutz that one of the blades did not properly close. Its grinding dust and then they add oil to make it more nasty. Right now I am playing with an RR2257 that came in my subscription box and it arrived clean as a whistle. Like I said maybe 1 in 10.

When you gave it a thumbs up I ordered one. I found the exact opposite of yours. My can opener worked flawlessly but the cap lifter was quite the struggle. I can remove a little stock with the dremmel and make it work better. It's a shame they can't do a cap lifter/ screwdriver blade like a S.A.K...love your videos.

I have the RR Scout knife in the Red Tiger Stripe. It looks better in person than on the web site. It's well made.

Maybe they used the 25th Anniversary Shield because the Plant had a bunch laying around

Thats very nice, i might invest in one now , . Have you got the scout tiger stripe yet? It's just went on sale here in the UK, unfortunately it also has the R, I would have to display it show side bown.

Tobias you might want to check the heat treat on the steel. I ordered the pen knife and as i was inspecting it out of the box, i snapped the pen blade right off with minimal pressure from just my fingers alone.

Love it

Thanks Tobias

Nice video , i like that rough rider is coming out with more carbon steel. I really wish they would learn to crink blades over there, like you said, too fat. Seems to be the norm on a lot of their multiblades....anyway thanks for the looks 👍

could you make video with comparasion to tiger stripes scout knife?

Hello. On the stoneworx series doctors knife, is the pearl and malachite genuine or synthetic? Thanks!

I used a small hammer to tap down a loose bail (bale?) and it worked great. I don't like them being loosey goosey.

I only have the amber camp knife (old version). I should have bought both...

Can't wait. Just gotta keep that old man nap from happening just a little longer...😂

I’d rather have black bone and no big R, too. But this series is damn good looking. That swayback whittler in yellow is cool, but the black one is gorgeous. Do it in black bone with a plain bolster, and it would be magnificent. I would write poems to it. Tobias, is the Painted Desert series the same as root beer composition? I see Blade Matrix has a few root beer RRs and I’ve never heard of that. ?

Have you got the old timer 230T camp knife? I am torn whether to get this or the rough rider 533, any thoughts?

The bottle opener wouldn't open a single bottle from my fridge, now way, no how. So the one thing I wanted this knife for is a total fail. I could probably re-grind it to make it work, but the nail nick is buried so deeply it's a pain to open in the first place. And you can drive a Mack truck between the gaps on the tools. Otherwise the one I got was surprisingly good. Still a $12 write-off though.

Looking at knife steel composition charts, T10 is MUCH more than just a Chinese 1095. More of a "tool steel". 1095 steel is just carbon and manganese added. T10 also has Tungsten (that's the "T") Chromium, Vanadium, Phosphorus, Silicon and Sulfur added to the mix. It also looks to have a much higher Rockwell hardness potential of: 64-67. Versus: 56-60 for 1095. It could be more brittle than 1095, but have better edge retention potential.

I remember some that looks like you; saying I will never buy another Knife with a big ugly R stamped on the bolster. I guess carbon fiber is different than micarta too. Too bad they didn’t make it with copper bolsters and a frost etch blade. Did the knife fairy leave it under your pillow?😂🤣😁😆

This is exactly why I hate ordering from SMKW, every one of my knives have had issues, I've never gotten one from them that I felt satisfied....there's always something, I started thinking maybe since Im in the next state over (Arkansas) that they dont like me and sending me all the returns...lol

Would one of the worst things about this model be its bulk?

I see they have a toothpick in the pattern, but hot a large one

The back spring id guess would be stainless to me using carbon steel wouldnt make sense

dang, now I gotta get all three of these. I am ending up with a whole bunch of R/R's, and it's all yo fault.:>)

That scout knife looks suspiciously like the Marbels scout knife

Send it back, bent is bent.

Never understand why they don't match carbon with bone.

The punch on mine was defective. The end was bent or unfinished and there were 2 dings on the edge. The metal seemed cheap and weak. Disappointed.

They need 3 spring set to do what Case used to do with 2 smdh 😤

Hey Tobias that steel is super weak that 440A in other terms blows!!!!!! That steel is junk and this is coming from someone that has about 75 of them they are what they are!!!!!! Thanks bud

I own all yellow Classic Carbons but thus series I stopped buying after 3 knives, the micarta us so horribly rough it's almost unbearable to the eye imo.

The world is harder on us southpaws

Somehow doesn't look perdy to me, kamp king is my choice.

As always, I'm late to the party, just found your channel and must admit you have some unique content. However, as an "outsider" I immediately could see the problem with the very sad state of things on here and that cap lifter debacle; Corona beer. Might I suggest a switch to Modelo Especial if you like a lighter Germanesque styled brew or the Negro Modelo for times when only 'darkness' will suffice. Yeah, and cook out more often, Modelo goes well with wood smoke wafting through the air; mesquite or red oak seem to make the best rib-eye results; your mileage may vary. All kidding aside, glad you made this report update as it really had me worried since Rough Rider and Marbels seem to use the same cap lifters, and I have both models on order and due to arrive within hours. Honestly, I did not need to find your channel, I am a wonderful enabler of addictive behavior my own self. Now at least, I can blame you for adding fuel to my collecting fire; hope ya don't mind. Don't worry though, I won't mention the kitty who reminds me of my own best buddy, man and kitty stuff always remain private with me. Oh, and I'm from SoCal, don't hold that against me though. Cheers!