Magnum Camp Knives arrive!

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James Mattis

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In American measure:
8 1/2" of blade, point to handle.
8" of sharp edge, measured along the curve.
3/16" stock at the tang, a little thinner along the blade itself.
Weight - 14 ounces bare, 20 ounces in the ambidextrous Kydex sheath.

The considerably shorter Campanion weighs in at 15 ounces bare, and 19 ounces in the equally ambidextrous Kydex sheath. For all practical purposes, they are the same burden on your belt our in your pack. The Magnum Camp is probably the one you want when you've killed something and want to butcher it and slice up some vegies to go with it. The Campanion is probably the one you want for doing stuff that would make some other companies' warranty departments cry "Foul!"
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- JKM
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BTW, this is one they might want to consider bringing out in a satin finish for people who don't mind taking care of their carbon steel blades. After all, Cold Steel gets away with selling uncoated "Carbon V" bowie knives.

Or make them grey instead of ninja-black?

I did an unscientific survey of three ladies in or near the office, who all told me that the Magnum Camp looked eeevil. These were people who thought a dark grey coated Chris Reeve Kathathu dagger had a certain stark beauty about it.

Now the basic formula for using the Magnum Camp Knife is "Slice up a few pounds of meat, preferably venison, and the vegetables and herbs of your choice, and cook them," while the basic formula for using that big dagger is "Insert in enemy and stir." Nevertheless, they would pick up the big grey dagger and recoil at the big black slicer.

Go figure!
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- JKM
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This knife is a beauty! The evil look definitely comes from the black coating. I consider taking it off. Question now, how does the uncoated blade look? What's the finish?

[This message has been edited by Ralf (edited 07-11-2000).]
 
I too like this knife, it's less of a battering ram and more of a "chef's knife on steroids", it's got very nice balance for a big knife. I'm gonna take it camping later this summer and put it through some workouts.
Thanks to C&R for the quick service in getting this to me also, Chris and Rick are very responsive. As Mr Dundee would say,"naw, that's not a knife, THIS is a knife".
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So who besides me seems to think this looks like an excellent fighter? Perhaps a multi-purpose knife? I think there are several old Bowie patterns that ber more than a passing resemblance to this knife. And yes, I agree that a satin finish would look very nice.
 
The difference between a "Bowie knife" and a "butcher knife" is sometimes rather subtle. One of the newspaper accounts of the (in)famous Sandbar Fight called Jim Bowie's Bowie knife "...that big butcher knife he always carries."

Here's the note I posted over in the "general" forum under "scary fixed blades":

I asked another person in my unscientific survey on scary knives, why some folks see this knife as scarier than most:

So she explained. A purpose-built killing sort of knife, like double-edged dagger or some more radical shape, suggests "Dungeons and Dragons" or something you'd see in the movies in some action-adventure setting that is far removed from real life for city folks. A kitchen type knife, on the other hand, is something that real people get stabbed and slashed with. And if you make that kitchen knife as black as a moonless night, it suggests a stalker - maybe an irate ex-husband - an "O.J. Knife"! So a single-edge slicer, a familiar sort of knife, when viewed as a weapon, is scarier than an exotic sort of edged weapon because of, and not in spite of, it's familiarity.
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- JKM
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Edge geometry - I haven't done any scientific tests or measuring with it, but it's plenty sharp for the basic arm-hair and paper slicing ritual.

The balance is right at the guard.


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- JKM
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Cliff,
the MAGNUM CAMP KNIFE, as designed by Jerry Fisk, balances just foward of the front-most finger area, but not in front of the guard. Sorta right on the guard area. Its a very 'neutral' feel to it.....rather 'weightless'.

Edge geometry.....the blade is flat ground from .188" stock, with a distil taper. The blade on my sample on my desk is .197" on the unground section of blade just forward of the guard[this increase of thickness is due to the coating]. Approximatley halfway down the lenght of the blade, the thickness is .144". Just behind the tip of the blade it is .087". the blade does have a slight swedge ground on top to reduce wieght and 'round' the spine some. Keep in mind these blades are of course hand sharpened, but the sample on my desk, taken at random, measures .037".

I am currently cleaning the blood[mine] off my keyboard from a slight edge testing mis-hap with this knife. Yup, its sharp
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Stay Sharp!
Will Fennell
Camillus Cutlery
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Will, thanks for the geometry specifics. The 0.037", is that the thickness behind the edge? If so that is fairly decent. What is the NIB edge angle, about 22 degrees or so?

-Cliff
 
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