Description:
The Sunfish is a wide bodied equal-end knife with a wide spear- master and secondary pen blade. Rough Rider makes it in two sizes, small and large. The large or standard sunfish is 4.25 inches long in the closed position. It is about one inch wide! Like its cousin, the Elephant toenail, it is designed to cut rope.
There is a slight amount of blade drag around the pivot pins on the blades; especially the large wide spear It is more pronounced on the larger frame but not enough to be a problem with opening or closing and definitely not enough to be a deal breaker on the purchase, at least not in my opinion. As I said, it may be a flaw inherent with the pattern. It could also be the fact that all of these knives were new old stock that had been out of production and sitting on the shelf for several years.
As my sunfishes are both early production runs they have the “Always Ready” etch on the main blade. I’m not sure this will be repeated on future releases of the knives. Not much more to say than they are nice examples of the pattern and priced accordingly. I’m considering getting a few more in some of the more exotic Rough Rider series simply because of how nice they look. While the blades are razor sharp, and the fit and finish are exceptional I doubt I will ever use these knives but if you’re a user of the pattern, I’m betting you will be pleased with these Rough Riders.
Specifications:
- Pattern: Large Sunfish
- Pattern Numbers: RR120
- Length Closed : 4.25 inches
- Main Blade: 3.25 inch Spear
- Secondary: 2 inch pen
- Blade Etch: RR Always Ready
- Tang: RR singature
- Handle: White Smooth Bone
- Bolsters: Singe Ring Nickel Silver
- Lining: Brass.
- Pins: Brass
- Shield : None
- Bail: N/A
