Rough Ryder’s “Classic Carbon” Medium Toothpick is a traditional pocket knife with yellow composition handles. The handles also feature nickel silver pins, bolsters, a special Classic Carbon shield, and brass liners.

The “Classic Carbon” Medium Toothpick has a mirror polished T10 carbon steel clip point blade. The carbon steel used in these knives is easy to sharpen, but prone to rust. It is best to keep the blades well maintained, clean, and oiled. The bolsters have a pinched bolster shape, giving them a slight indent on each end of the knife. They also feature a slant-R embossed design. The blade opens with a match strike pull. Unlike a standard nail nick or long pull, a match strike pull has serrations inside the groove of the pull. These serrations allow you to strike a match with your knife. The blade uses the half stops and slip joints found in traditional pocketknives.

This knife is a toothpick pattern. The pattern bears resemblance to the French laguiloe knife and the Spanish navaja knife. The laguiloe was known as a picnic knife, while the navaja was a fighting and utility knife. Stories of history of the pattern range from use as a fishing knife to a fighting knife, but the pattern always remains a popular one.

The “Classic Carbon” Medium Toothpick is a perfect knife for a collector, or for use as an everyday carry. The yellow composition handles combined with the pins and shield give this knife a timeless appearance. With more than ten patterns in this series, it doesn’t get much more traditional than this.