hey folks welcome back in this video we're gonna do something I don't
normally do and that is we're gonna take a look at a knife this is the Kershaw
1077 10 inch camp knife and if you're in the market for a big chopper you might
want to stick around okay so let's talk about this bad boy for a second
obviously made from Kershaw this particular model is made in China with a
Chinese steel 65 MN blade steel is a medium to high carbon often used as a
spring steel which is a Chinese version of roughly the equivalent of 1065 it is
a suitable steel for a large knife and if I was to make a large chopper I would
probably use either 10 65 or 50 160 something along those lines anyway so it
was a good choice for a knife of this size speaking on the size it's almost
exactly 10 inches in blade length and 6 inches in handle length approximately
one inch thick and the blade steel is point to 0 which is roughly 3/16 thick
overall length is about 16 inches so talking about it from a design
standpoint it's not bad the thickness of the blade the selection of materials
considering the source and size shape ratio seemed to work really well for
this night seems like there was a little bit of thought that went into this
design it is approximately 19 ounces in weight which is about a pound and three
ounces of it which isn't overall bad for a knife of this size the overall shape
and size of the knife it seems to get its inspiration from a kukri which is
great that's a that's an overall great large field knife I don't think that
anybody's going to dispute that according to the information on blade HQ
it has a flat grind I would probably call that a high saber grind myself but
I guess you know six to one half a dozen to another
it has a black coating and I'm not sure if it's some sort of electro coating or
a powder coating or a paint I really don't know it'll probably come out in
the wash when you start beating on it it all depends on how fast the coating
wears on what it is it is very smooth it's not a real thick heavy coating on
it so it shouldn't interfere with any chopping it shouldn't provide any extra
friction but being that it is hardcore high carbon a coating is always nice to
have because it's gonna resist the rust that much more except for the high wear
areas it's full tang as far as you can see in here I can see the steel coming
through the plastic and then it's over molded plastic with rubber on top of it
the rubber has a diamond pattern to it and it's very aggressive but it feels
really good in the hand I don't know how it's gonna hold up after a lot of work
in the shape is overall shape fits my hand very well it sort of narrows on the
front and as it widens out here it also widens out in the middle and then it
narrows back in the back so you're you get a really good I mean it feels like
you're holding on to something these feel like you actually holding on to
something that was designed to go in your hand like this and in addition it
has the two lanyard holes and I'll tie up a lanyard and show you how you can
use those two holes
now you have an added level of retention if you're really going at it in some
thick woods got one more just one more level of retention beyond the stickiness
of the rubber grip I probably wouldn't leave this on here all the time but I
love the option if I get into a situation or where I'm starting to get a
little tired and weak or maybe my grip strength is failing me then I like the
idea that I can put a lanyard on it and people where it's supposed to be so I'm
not flinging it across camp the overall fit and finish is pretty good there are
some gaps where the handle meets the blade in and around here and you can see
a little bit of spacing on the inside but I don't think that's really going to
affect anything and for a night that something falls somewhere in the 40 to
$60 range I don't think you're gonna do much better than this overall at first
glance it seems like a very capable usable night and well worth the money so
if you're looking for a budget camp knife this might just be the one the
sheath I don't like the nylon it seems seems kind of like a little bit of low
budget nylon to me like there's better ones that they can use but the design of
the sheath is cool it is an injection molded plastic held together by rivets
probably got some glue in there and then there's screws up here it is reversible
so the retention strap can come off go around the other side and it's already
got a snap on each side so if you reverse it you only have to reverse this
piece and everything else falls into line it's a little floppy without the
retention strap but it's to be expected with a plastic molded sheath and there
is no retention at all without the strap it's kind of an interesting setup they
have it comes around the strap here comes around the back of the night and
over the front which is kind of neat I haven't seen
that before it's most definitely secure it's not coming out unless this strap
stretches out but I don't think it's gonna and if it did I would just replace
it with a nice letter went out of way these here just go through the back and
then fold back around on themselves now it comes set up as a dangler but if you
take this piece out move it down here and then move this one back in it kind
of closes everything up like that and puts the belt loop here so you can wear
it a little bit higher on your waist I don't like it it digs into my ribs that
way if I was gonna wear it on my belt I'd wear it like this and it's perfectly
suited to that the sheath - mine is obviously the tan they also make a black
one and it's got a black grip and gray on this plastic this plastic that's
black on mine is grey black handle and then a black sheep with black nylon on
it overall the Sheep designs not bad it of
course is blazing with the with the Kershaw logo and it's the same on the
back so if you reverse this flip it around and wear it as a lefty you're
gonna it's gonna end up looking the exactly the same left-handed so I really
like that when you have that kind of versatility I suppose if you really
wanted to you could velcro that down and you could run your belt through there
and wear this as a small of the back option in which case you probably want
to if you're right-handed you're gonna want to reverse it so the small of the
backs can handle spacing down so when you grab it behind your back you're
grabbing it in the right orientation so that's kind of cool I wouldn't wear it
across my back but I may I might consider wearing it across the top of a
rucksack or along the bottom of a rucksack it's at least this wide so the
options are there it's nice that they thought of a whole bunch of little
options like that but you can kind of play with the whole modularity of it I
do wish that it had some sort of a rigging
for Molly it would be nice to just hook it on the side of my hunting pack with
some Molly straps and know that it's gonna be secure but it doesn't have that
option so maybe I'll try and come up with something later on so overall it
seems like a really really nice package it's obviously a name we trust and it's
a yes it's made in China but for the money I don't know if you're gonna do
any better honestly so the presentation is really nice it seems like a durable
package it seems like it's got a lot of modularity so you can adjust it the way
that you particularly like to carry it and and it seems like something that I
would spend my money on but let's take it out bash on some trees with it and
see if it's something that I would actually use after I bought it so now
what I have here is just an old dead pine tree in my backyard I was gonna
come out and remove it with the chainsaw anyway but I figured that this is a
really good opportunity to give this knife a once-over before I actually take
it out to the field never want to be out in the field with a piece of gear that's
untested
so just lemon with all that brush and stuff in my overhead seemed more like it
bashed its way through rather than cut but I'm not really putting a lot of
effort into it because because the overhead I don't want to catch a
kickback on myself so we'll see how well it cuts when I take the tree down
so you've pretty much just witnessed the sum total of the work that I've done
with it the coding is starting to rub off just a little bit just from that
work I mean that tree wasn't an easy tree to take it down and it's been
standing dead for roughly two years hardening up and and it was small enough
that had a lot of bounce in it it's not like it was hitting a good solid object
and I also wasn't laying into it with all I had either I just wanted to do
some casual work with it and see if it if it did the job and it did it did it
did a pretty good job I'm actually pretty impressed with it for the weight
and the size the coding is not gonna last looks really good out of the box
but it is gonna wear off so keep that in mind that you know they're not gonna
stay pretty for long if you intend to use them I think that this is a knife
that I would carry and use the efficiency of use is worth the wait I
think they got a good balance between the efficiency of the blade and the
weight of you know the the the cost of carrying it so the grip is good the grip
is sturdy the string really helped to have that on there and overall I'm
actually impressed for for the cost of this knife you know the expense usually
comes in around $50 plus or minus ten bucks depending on where you look maybe
you can find a little cheaper maybe you'll see it more expensive but I think
50 bucks is a good middle ground for it and then up or down 10 or 15 bucks from
there if you get a good deal somewhere well worth the price either way I
probably wouldn't go any higher than then the $60 range for it because of
what it is you know it's a chinese-made it's a lightweight pretty much
expendable camp tool but if I took this out and I camped you know six or eight
times through the course of the summer and I happen to break it or lose it it
wouldn't break my heart it wouldn't be that big of a deal I would just go get
another one it's not like going out there with a 600 dollar handmade custom
and then losing it in the woods so for what it's for which is a multi-purpose
clearing the brush and building camp or making your way through some extra thick
wood line or or something like that or maybe
trimming off some branches and setting up a deer stand or or using it to
harvest some wood and build a deer blind I think that this is excellent
for that purpose and I wouldn't have a problem trying to chop through an elk
joint with it either and if I broke it or chipped it not that big a deal not at
all the one caveat is that it is a recurve
LE and it is difficult to sharpen sometimes this particular one it came
pretty sharp I didn't go through any kind of sharpness tests with it but I
could tell right off the bat that it could be sharper it has a lot more
potential than it comes from the factory so I'll put a real good sharpening edge
on it for the next time that I take it out or for when I take it out to the
actual field it'll probably take the place on my pack is my backcountry large
field knife I don't always carry an ax when I'm hiking through the mountains
I want something lightweight but efficient and I think that this will fit
the bill and that's what you're looking for then this is probably a good a good
deal for you if it's not you want something a little more high-end a
little bit more spit-and-polish this is definitely not the blade for you this is
most definitely a beater utility knife and I have no doubt that this can take
some serious abuse but if you happen to break it lose it or somebody runs off
with it it's not going to break your heart
kick down another 50 bucks get another one and you're back to square one so if
you're looking at this and you're thinking between this and some of the
Gerber's and the the camping store large choppers I would definitely say go with
this it's three times the knife of any of those but if you're trying to decide
between this and then a really high-end knife like a handmade custom or a
high-end production knife you're not going to be happy with this if you have
to have that high-end production quality then go with the high-end knife but for
50 40 to 60 dollars for this you're getting a lot of knife for your money
that's just my opinion so that's pretty much my impression of the 10 inch Camp
knife from Kershaw I want to throw a special thanks over to my editor and the
other minions that breach bang clear for sending me this to do a video test of
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