Kershaw Camp10

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BoazmanPaul

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I have owned, customized, and used a Kershaw Camp 10 for well over a year now and have found it to be a great, durable, hard working woods knife. It has done everything I've asked from it and more. I like the knife so much and find it to be so versatile, I replaced my ESEE Junglas with it. I saw on Youtube, a guy was saying theres been lots of post about Camp 10 dramatic fails. Anyone have any input?
 
Ive had 3. Gave one away. Broke one after several hundred accurate throws. Beat on them, chopped, hacked, pried, hammered, battoned..kept on going. Just watch the hole below choil, and keep edge away from steel and stone.
 
I'm just looking for any post on catastrophic blow out as the guys said. He mentioned there are number of completely dramatic and catastrophic blow outs from this line of knives. I saw your post and one of the Camp 18 breaking the tip after striking a cinder block. But after near 3 hours of searching here, and google, and yahoo, and you tube, I still can't find anything else. I know as a knife guy, if there was a problem like this guy soooooooooo dramaticly claimed, the knife world would be all over it.
 
I remember when they were pretty new yet there was a guy who posted pictures on here of his and the edge had a couple BIG chunk blown out of it. that's the only example I've seen. Doesn't worry me a bit, honestly. I asked for one for Christmas and if no one comes through, I'm gonna buy one for myself after Christmas.
 
BoazmanPaul said:
I'm just looking for any post on catastrophic blow out as the guys said. He mentioned there are number of completely dramatic and catastrophic blow outs from this line of knives. I saw your post and one of the Camp 18 breaking the tip after striking a cinder block. But after near 3 hours of searching here, and google, and yahoo, and you tube, I still can't find anything else. I know as a knife guy, if there was a problem like this guy soooooooooo dramaticly claimed, the knife world would be all over it.
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This guy on youtube called tatical cracked the edge on his camp 18.
 
Yeah, Tactical broke an 18 chopping with it..surprised me. I broke a 14 on hedge branches. Yeah, most people dont bring it to attention when one breaks and so we really have no idea how often its happened.
 
My 10 has split its share of kindling, no issues yet...and I do NOT go easy on it. Time will tell. I did accidentally collide with a brick once, it ended up with noticeable, but not excessive edge damage. I haven't seen any need to regrind the edge yet, though, as it was fairly minimal..
 
its the sharpest blade of its type ive ever had. I cut up some vines and overgrown shrubs with no problem.i don't abuse my stuff so ill probably never see it fail..
 
BoazmanPaul,

My experiences & opinions are similar to yours (positive in general).

I have reprofiled Camp-10 and have done some test comparisons in this video: Kershaw 1077 Camp-10 ReProfile: http://youtu.be/s51GcAPaeHE

At the end of this second video, unknowingly chopped through a couple nails that only resulted in small chips to the reprofiled cutting edge: Kershaw Camp 10 & Outcast Chopping: http://youtu.be/BBQVbxfIeK8

Before I reprofiled this particular Camp-10 it had been battoned heavily, with no damage to the factory edge geometry. I think the issues related to blade breakage (Cliff Stamp video, etc. I am pretty sure Cliff did a video with breakage - could be confusing with his early Bushlore vid ...), as well defects related to large chipping, etc. are most likely related to issues in heat treatment & tempering of a few blades - and are not specifically representative of this particular model and/or blade steel application.

Goals of reprofile were/are improvement of cutting depth when chopping, reduction of blade stick when chopping (blade stick in wood each heavy chop stroke), improvement of feather sticking & fine cutting performance. Basically, expand the overall performance along the lines of overall camp duty knife.

Plan for this Camp-10 are to continue to progressively work on "improvements" to the cutting geometry (similar to what I have done to my Outcast) until point of failure. Then back off little to optimal and buy a few more to rework & apply best test results found in process.

My thoughts are, Buy One & test it hard before you elect to put yourself in a position that makes you Dependant on this tool (same for any tool like this! IMHO). If it fails testing return it and/or get another from a different vendor (different batch, etc.).

At around $40 (sheath included) it is one hell of a value! AND worth taking the time to test one out.

Regards,
 
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