My first pocket knife ( Kamp King )

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Kamp - King
Imperial Prov R.I USA

The first pocket knife I can remember !
I didn't own it for very long ..
We went camping and my dad said ... Boy , hand me that knife ( he knew I had purchased a new pocket knife for myself ) , and promptly broke the knife !
That was mid 70's ..
These knives are "A" typical of the budget knives from the 70's , lightly built with little durability !
Several decades later and thanks to FeeBay I was able to find a clean / reasonably priced Kamp King .
I took some searching .... As most of the ones I saw were rusty rubbish or priced high enough to pay for college tuition !
This one is not perfect , but was the cleanest and sanest priced one I could find at the time ( Decade or more ago ) .

The Kamp King is simply the earliest pocket knife I can remember ( I had others and earlier ones ) ..
I post this as I just ordered a Rough Ryder knife of the same pattern . ( To be reviewed )
I am a fan of these knives ( pattern ) , but they always seemed a little lightly built .
Looking for this knife I came across a TwoSun S90V knife I had apparently lost / misplaced ..
Yeah !!!! I have a few knives ... ( Maybe )

Soon , Rough Ryder Scout / RR2215 .....


Being bushcrafty ....
For a budget , cheap , 70's , soft steel , pocket knife .
If the goal is to start a camp fire , then the Kamp-King is able to complete the mission .
Butt & it's a huge butt ! Only after some mods ....
 
old4570 said:
IGP1985.jpg

IGP1987.jpg


Kamp - King
Imperial Prov R.I USA

The first pocket knife I can remember !
I didn't own it for very long ..
We went camping and my dad said ... Boy , hand me that knife ( he knew I had purchased a new pocket knife for myself ) , and promptly broke the knife !
That was mid 70's ..
These knives are "A" typical of the budget knives from the 70's , lightly built with little durability !
Several decades later and thanks to FeeBay I was able to find a clean / reasonably priced Kamp King .
I took some searching .... As most of the ones I saw were rusty rubbish or priced high enough to pay for college tuition !
This one is not perfect , but was the cleanest and sanest priced one I could find at the time ( Decade or more ago ) .

The Kamp King is simply the earliest pocket knife I can remember ( I had others and earlier ones ) ..
I post this as I just ordered a Rough Ryder knife of the same pattern . ( To be reviewed )
I am a fan of these knives ( pattern ) , but they always seemed a little lightly built .
Looking for this knife I came across a TwoSun S90V knife I had apparently lost / misplaced ..
Yeah !!!! I have a few knives ... ( Maybe )

Soon , Rough Ryder Scout / RR2215 .....


Being bushcrafty ....
For a budget , cheap , 70's , soft steel , pocket knife .
If the goal is to start a camp fire , then the Kamp-King is able to complete the mission .
Butt & it's a huge butt ! Only after some mods ....
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I had a bunch of Scout knives exactly like that. Lost one about age 12 or 13 mowing the neighbors' lawn (a push mower, as gasoline hadn't been discovered back then ;) ). My sister found it decades later in a window box when she and my BIL bought that house. Completely rusted, but the same knife.
 
I remember buying one the summer of ‘84 with my lawnmowing money. I was convinced all I needed to survive for months in the woods was my camp knife and Buck 118. 😂
 
I have been searching and searching for the Bowie knife I purchased when about 10 years old .
I still remember what it looked like , but have not been able to find one that looks the same .
The Kamp King was easy enough to find , but no luck with that Bowie .
 
I had at least one of those by the late 50's. All long gone now.
 
I bought one of those in a "junk" shop 7 or 8 years ago. Nice little scout knife. I need to dig mine out...once I remember where it is.
 
My first knife was exactly like that, bought in a 5 & 10 for $ 1 around 1961. My memory has me thinking it had CAMPER stamped on the shield, but maybe it was KAMP KING.
 
Thanks old4570 for the memories. It was my first knife as well. Mine is missing the scales, and spent much time in my youth cutting off gopher tails. Dad paid us 10 cents a tail to trap gophers off his runway (he was a crop sprayer).
 
Different model I think? Yours has a blade, not the awl. Not the Kamp king.
 
That looks like it! Not 100% sure on blade vs awl.. I do remember riding home in car back seat, dad said do not open until get home. Opened in back seat and small cut on finger! Oops!
 
Roblues said:
That looks like it! Not 100% sure on blade vs awl.. I do remember riding home in car back seat, dad said do not open until get home. Opened in back seat and small cut on finger! Oops!
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vltor17 said:
Different model I think? Yours has a blade, not the awl. Not the Kamp king.
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Yes, not a Kamp King, but the equivalent, made by Ideal (another Providence, RI maker of cheapo knives). I got mine NOS from a guy who was selling them on the auction site. They called the small blade a reamer - this is the seller’s picture of the display card they were sold on:

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Thanks Just Tom, great info. Apparently I’m dumb as a box of rocks, can’t seem to post pics of my Kamp king.
 
vltor17 said:
Thanks Just Tom, great info. Apparently I’m dumb as a box of rocks, can’t seem to post pics of my Kamp king.
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See if this works:
Just Tom. said:
Here is how I post images. The idea here is to get a link, which you can paste directly into the body of your message. You do NOT need to be a paying member of BF OR create an account with imgur for this to work. Go to Imgur.com, and click on the things I have circled in red below (this is on my ipad - I don’t know if it works exacrly the same on a desktop, but it should be similar):

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>>>>> Paste the code you just copied directly into the body of your message and it should show up.
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Alberta Ed said:
Looks like my first Boy Scout knife, much abused, lost for 20+ years then it turned up in a window box at the house next door, where I used to mow the lawn.
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Just now was the first time I opened it in? I can't tell you how many years. I had to use a screwdriver to pry the blades open. There is a weird looking blade kind of like awl or maybe it's to clean horses hooves? Can you tell me what that is?IMG_20230710_185848713.jpg
 
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