Rough Ryder Classic Carbon II Scout Knife

oh hello, you caught me by surprise, welcome to another exciting episode of

knife

talk with tobias. One thing that

rough

rider fans keep asking for is knives and

carbon

steel, and well,

rough

riders had the

classic

carbon

series that has the yellow delrin handles right. actually yellow comp handles but people want it more so they have released the

classic

Carbon 2 series which obviously features carbon steel blades and black micarta handles so now you can choose between the yellow comp or the micarta black and Carbon Steel Blades now both series feature a carbon steel blade which is a t10 carbon steel which is the Chinese equivalent to 1095 carbon steel and well I had to go ahead and pick one because well it's the RR 2215, which is the scalp

knife

. or a camping knife, whatever you want to call it, your four bladed camper and this knife is built on the same framework that the camping king is built on the rough rider camping king from a year or two ago and as such, It has the same blade configuration that you have in Camp King, which I have to be honest with you, I think it looks a little ugly from the top view, especially when you compare it to the previous Scout Knife, Rough Rider, that the Can Opener has. original, this one looks much cleaner, much cleaner from above and, well, it's still my favorite.

I will tell you that right now I still like this knife over either of these two. I know this one was a big hit with me when it first came out, but I still like this one better and I'll still like this one better than this one, partly because of the blades on the top, but a few other things here, for example the large r in reinforcement, I'm not crazy. over the big r on the gusset and this one is nice and clean and it has a shield that I like a little more, but I gotta tell you, this is a cool shield they have here and it looks like the 25th anniversary shield.

I'm using it again because I see the 2 5 between the rr. I thought it would say rr with a cc in there for the classic carbon, but they didn't, it's got the uh two five in there, uh, but obviously this wasn't made in the 25th year of uhroughrider knives because it says they were established in 1994 and let's see 94 2004 2014 15 1617 18 19. unless they were making this come out in 2019, this shouldn't have been a 25th anniversary knife, but here it is uh, 2021 is anyway, let's talk about the knife. I still like the shield. I like the diamond shape of the shield and everything, so that's cool.

I like the way they dented it a little to make it look like classic carbon. Which is great. I assume they are stainless steel rear springs. Could be carbon steel rear springs. I don't know, that wasn't specified anywhere. You also have spacers that are also made of steel, but you have them. They have brass coatings on there and if you look very closely you will see a blue coating for the black micarta handles. Look at that blue line that goes there, so there's a little blue coating between the handles and the micarta looks a little bit. of spaces right there, but otherwise it looks pretty good on the micarta well, it's my card if you like my card you're going to love the knife I guess it looks good your handle you know your oils from your hand and everything is going to Really I did a good job on that micarta and everything that has a nice texture is relatively smooth, but looks good.

I would have preferred to have your basic black or black delrin composition, but hey, okay, it's black, so it shows. pretty good, so let's talk about some blades on this thing now, within 30 minutes of me picking up this knife or this knife came more like from Smoky Mountain Knife Works, I actually ordered about six or seven knives. I have many reviews for but anyway, this was the first one I opened. I thought, boom, I want to take a look at that

scout

knife and see what it looks like and I quickly opened it up and the first thing I did was there was so much.

I complained a lot about the Camp King cap lifter, about the fact that it wouldn't open a beer bottle, so the first thing I did was grab a beer bottle and check to see if this cap lifter was going to open a beer bottle and give you I'll say right now that whenever you put it under one of those little pins on the lid, you know, the dots on the crown of the lid will come off and it's not hard to do. it's under one of those little dots, so I did it right away, sorry I didn't record it or anything, but I can tell you that, yeah, right out of the box, I put it in a lid and opened the lid, yeah , it requires. you're lining up this little notch right there with the tip of a cap, but you have to do that with almost any cap lifter you find on a knife, so I didn't find that to be a problem when I mentioned that in the army group the first thing I I received was what's wrong with the blade wobble?

Is there any side to side movement in this thing? And my answer is no, that lid lifter is nice and tight. stops half stops doesn't mean much to me a lot of other people love them but you have it on each blade and it doesn't wobble, the can opener doesn't wobble, the lid lifter doesn't wobble, the main blade is too. nice and tight no problem if anything there is a little rubbing now but I haven't even cleaned this knife yet and finally the punch is also nice and tight and doesn't wobble so sorry for whoever got the one you have a really significant side. do a lateral move on his cap lifter, send him back to rough rider that's what I would do or send him back to smkw.

One thing I did notice is that with the can opener, there is a problem at least with the opener on my knife now, if you look closely here, it looks pretty good and you flip it over, it looks pretty good too, but when you look at this angle, notice that the container has a significant enough twist in the blade that when you're cutting. Now I'm not cutting a can here, but if you line it up this way it's pretty much fine, but you can't line it up on this side because it goes into the can, so you can only line it up with me.

I guess on the right side of the can, which is a little problematic for us lefties, I mean, I can do it and I was doing it, but I don't think it was necessary to bend it at all, but uh, and I don't understand why. which has been bent because if you look at the Camp King lid lifter, there is no such curvature that is almost straight. You can see that there is a significant twist in the blade. I was thinking well, maybe it was a defect and maybe I don't know if it would be considered a design defect or a construction defect, because when I close the knife, if you notice that the opener is right against the brass and if I were to bend the blade, it would probably break. would hook on the side of the knife, so I think what happened is at the factory, someone bent the can opener so the blade could close properly.

It really affects the function of the can opener only slightly, but is it enough for me? Let's just say it's a little annoying and um, if they didn't have all this silly flexing here, they wouldn't have had that problem. I mean, why are you bending it towards the handle if you notice this is pretty finished anyway? Look at the space between the can opener and the lid lifter there is a significant gap there so this didn't have to be folded at all like it is at the beginning here and then they wouldn't have had to fold the sheet at the bottom there to For me that's it probably the biggest complaint I have about the knife and that makes that knife much thicker than the previous camping knife.

I mean, you're talking about an eighth of an inch fatter at least, so that's probably my only real complaint. As for the knife, I want to say that it is well made, it is a solid knife, you have the full half points that everyone is crazy about. You have a tank seal on each sheet. There is a slight ding on the main dial blade. It's fine, although there is another complaint. I heard that the blade here, the spear blade is proud, but I don't think you can tell. I guess you could argue that it is. You can feel it when you rub your finger. but that's mainly because of the drop here if they had lifted this all the way up, you know, I think it's protected, can you, yeah, can you push down and put your finger on the tip of the blade, uh, but if you hit account? my finger is down there, um, I think it's okay if that's too high for you, you can reduce the kick a little bit, there's not much kick there because if you notice they actually put a kick in the spring down there for Kick to hit to make sure that you don't wrap the blade and you have a significant drop there, so you can definitely lower it more if you want, but then maybe you'll need to lower other things. because if you notice where the nail notches are, if you lower them much lower, the neck of the nail will be buried behind the cap lifter.

I don't see it as a problem if you see it as a problem. So I would say don't buy the knife, but I don't see it as a major problem at all. In fact, I see it as something you see on a lot of camping knives, this one, no, not so much here. Does it happen in the king of the camp? Yes, it's the same on the king of camp, so if you're happy with it on the king of camp, you'll be fine with this knife too. It's almost the same, so my only two complaints about this. knife well really the big r on the cushion I can live with that there's also a nice little uh um what do they call it pinch?

There is a little pinch in the cushions which is nice, it's a nice little touch to the bill. a little tight when you're pushing down like that, which I guess could be good because then it's out of your way. I would prefer to tighten when you're pushing like this because if you notice that it doesn't really go any further than there without pushing, I would love for the bale to stop right there, uh, when you go to the blades, because we know that the most common way that What you end up with that cut in the blade is that the bale lifts up that way, you hit the blade and it's like shit, the bullet is in the way, so I wish it would tighten down there so it doesn't hit the blade, but instead get stuck there.

That will loosen over time and probably go away too. that little scratchy mark on your alpaca cushion that happens, sometimes too, this one is very tight, this one does what I like, it moves easily down here, it tightens there, you really have to push it up. so I don't have to worry about the blade falling on the bale of this knife, uh, these, everything is fine, this one has very limited movement, so it will break through, although they always break through, uh, in general . I like this knife much better than the Camp King. The can opener is a problem for me.

But like I said, it's still functional. I don't like the big R on the booster, but maybe if they did it. the king of the camp and uh micarta or just a plain bone, I would choose it over this one, but overall it's not a bad knife and it's not expensive, but it's still not like a good old red here, I still like this one much better . than either of these two, but the good thing is the t10 carbon steel, that's what a lot of people have been asking for, so it's going to be a really good user and, well, it's also a good user, but it's going to be a good user. little user, and that's really what they are designed for to go out and use them, so there you have it, overall it's good to see another pattern of riders exploring, so I'm really happy about that and it's good to see it on the classic carbon series now if you can just throw a big stick in that series and I'll be very happy that it doesn't happen well now that the slideshow is over.

I have to tell you that after doing all that. When recording the video I decided you know what I really need to clean this, so I opened up all the blades and hit them with a bunch of hot water and rinsed the whole inside of the knife, which is always good. Doing when these knives first appear is a little bit tricky oh well especially if you have the so I opened everything up on the knife like this and put it under your basic water faucet basically and just ran boiling water on both sides to rinse. I took out everything I could rinse, nothing fancy or anything.

Doing this is just slamming it in the sink and letting the hot water go in there and just rinsing everything off and after you do that, first of all, it's a little bit brighter, but once. I did that, I went and hit it with some compressed air to get all the water out and then hit it with a bunch of wd-40, I mean I just hosed it down with wd-40 um and then cleaned the wd- 40 now remember that wd and wd-40 mean water displacement so I'm not using it as a lubricant on the knife I'm using it to get out all the hot water I just put on the knife that's why I hit it with the wd -40 to remove any residual water between any of the gaps and after doing so, I took out the trusty synthetic pea knife care oil, greased the joints and I'll tell you what.

Everything is running nice and smooth now, so all the blades open and close much better than they did a few minutes ago when the knife first appeared. You know, everything just got a nice snap. This is sharp, so be careful with it. Everything opens and closes verywell this is also very pointy, there's nothing, there's no side to side action with anything, obviously the can opener is the lid lifter is still bent, there's still no side to side movement, but it's a really good blade , agile and the main blade also no longer has that bit of polishing that was happening a minute ago when I first had the knife and hadn't cleaned it yet.

So that's something to also consider when you buy these knives, they're going to be a little dirty. It's the same with knives that come from GEC and elsewhere or they tend to be a little dirty. And I do not. They might clean them when they leave the factory, I don't know, but just because of the packaging and everything else, and shipping things get loose and everything, so you know they get dirty, so you're going to have to clean them. when you clean them they will work much better and that's the same with your old knives, you have to clean them and once you clean them they will work much better, with that being said I will now let you go, I hope you can.

I enjoyed it and yes I still recommend this classic 2 carbon scalp knife if you are looking for a tough carbon steel

scout

rider knife it is the only one at Block Camp King almost impossible to find these days and these rider knives older badasses. They are also becoming very rare and hard to find, so thank you rough rider for introducing a new scalp knife. If I would have preferred that one, yeah, well we've already covered that, but thanks again for a new scalp knife now that you're over it. the big r uh madness uh he pulled out another scout knife without the big r and I'll really be happy now if that wasn't the cat's meow I don't know what else I can do uh I hope you enjoyed the show and yes you really enjoyed the show and you want to know what's next next.

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