With a bit of work, you can dress game, start a fire, and cook your meal all with this knife.
#Esse knifes skin#
I have seen people skin game with this knife, so at the very least it functions well enough in a lot of different tasks. It’s fine with softer wood, but I don’t think you’ll get much in the way of usable tinder if all you have access to is something like hard oak.
#Esse knifes trial#
With a little trial and error the Esee 4 will make decent feather sticks, but it is not as effortless as some of the convex grind bushcraft knives we have tested. It will do some passable feather sticking, but it tends to make the shavings too thick. Even after you sharpen it, though, it’s not a great slicer because the blade stock is so wide. The factory edge isn’t great, but like I said the steel is soft so that’s easy enough to fix. It Has Durability at the Cost of Slicing Ability The Esee 4 does a decent job of making feather sticks, but it took a bit of trial and error to get decent curls. That and it’s soft enough to sharpen in the field. I’m about to criticize the hell out of this knife, but I have to do it recognizing that there’s maybe something I’m not getting here. Jeff Randall lives in jungles for weeks at a time. I go camping and bust open a lot of wood.
#Esse knifes full#
So knowing all that, and knowing that the people who design these knives spend a lot more time in the wilderness than I do, I have to assume I’m not using this knife to its full extent. It’s probably unfair of me to say the price is too high for a knife with 1095 steel, because clearly some of that price is represented in the overall skill that went into executing the knife design. When the factory edge isn’t razor sharp, and the edge retention isn’t great, they damn well know it. They want it to be soft, and they make their edges wide intentionally. They cook their 1095 steel to around 55 – 57 HRC intentionally. They clearly have the manufacturing dialed in on their designs. The fit and finish on this knife are perfect. This knife has flaws, but ESEE seems to be aware of those flaws. Okay at everything, not great at anythingĬheck Price on Blade HQ Check Price on Amazon
Pros All around tough and good for batoningĮSEE has a forever warranty on all their knivesĬons Price point at the high end for a tool steel It just doesn’t quite justify its price for me. As a larger variation of an already decent knife, it’s maybe a couple steps in the wrong direction, but it’s still a good knife and I love the company who makes it. With that in mind I have to give the ESEE 4 credit for managing to be as versatile as it is considering the size and thickness of it. This is the larger brother of the ESEE 3, which gets carried as a tactical knife and a camping knife, and a step brother of the OKC Rat 3 which is generally carried as a lightweight survival knife. If it’s just a beater knife to take out into the wild and smash into the untamed walls of unsuspecting nature, it’s pretty good, but you might want to change out the handle. If it’s a hunting knife, it’s a decent option that needs some DIY touch ups. If this is supposed to be a survival knife, it’s a nice knife with a couple issues and an ambitious price tag. The ability to customize an ESEE 4 pushes it from being a $120 pry bar to something that’s actually pretty fun to own.īut as long as we’re just talking about the original, flat-scaled, 1095 tool steel ESEE 4, there are some problems to be found for a knife in this price range: That has a lot to do with ESEE’s move to make their knives easy to modify, and offer a dozen different handle, blade, and sheath options for all their designs. It does not store any personal data.The Okayest Customizable Camping and Survival Knife The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
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