Go buy one. If you are somehow unhappy with it, it would help to validate the other whittler you own (and paid 10 times as much for) 3-Blade Swayback whittler, model # RR1741 F inally, RR did the right thing with their steel. Don't get me wrong, the 440 (A?) steel that they use currently in all of their traditional pocket knife patterns is adequate. It is not the crumbly mystery steel you get from Tourist souvenior shops. The flip top box that the whittler came in was tastefully aged. It even has a piece of waxed paper covering the knife, a-la WR CASE & Sons. Blades came covered in light machine oil. Don't know what took them so long. I only came across them a month or so ago.If you search the web, people were talking about this "Classic Carbon" series as early as January 2018. 3 3/4" Closed. Yellow "Composition" handles. Delrin? Reminds me of undyed cattle bone of old. Since this "CC" series is all about the
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