The numbered knives are only part of the ESEE Knives catalog. These are the purpose built tools, each designed around one job. Here you'll find a jungle chopper born in counter narcotics work, a survival knife with fire kit stored in the handle, a hunting knife drawn by a professional guide, a compact axe, and the Camp-Lore series designed by bushcrafters ESEE trusts.
Pronounced hoonglas, the Junglas takes its name from Colombia's Jungla counter narcotics special operations police. It was designed as a cross between a fixed blade and a machete. The ESEE Junglas II is the compact version, two inches shorter than the original. It runs an 8.5 inch 1095 blade on 0.2 inch stock, 14.5 inches overall, with enough weight up front to chop and enough control to carve. For pure brush clearing, the ESEE Expat El Deguello machete carries a 12.75 inch blade of thin 1075 steel at 19 ounces. It is made in El Salvador under ESEE's Expat line.
The ESEE Laser Strike carries its own fire. A ferrocerium flint and tinder tabs ride inside the Micarta handle, and a washer for removing the scales comes in the box. It is a 4.77 inch blade on 3/16 inch 1095, 10 inches overall at 9.4 ounces, with a Kydex sheath and belt clip plate. Lose your pack and the knife on your belt can still start a fire.
The ESEE Ashley Game Knife was ESEE's first knife built specifically for hunters, designed by guide Ashley Emerson after handling game from squirrels to buffalo. The 3.5 inch blade is wide enough to work inside a whitetail's pelvic cavity, and it has no choil notch to snag hide, which makes it one of the cleanest skinners among our hunting knives. James Gibson's ESEE Gibson Axe is a 10.5 inch, quarter inch thick 1095 frame with a Viking bearded head for choked up carving, built to ride in a pack alongside the rest of our axes and saws.
Each Camp-Lore knife runs thin 1095 black oxide stock with a traditional leather pouch sheath, and each carries a designer's take on the woods knife. The ESEE PR4 is Patrick Rollins's 4.125 inch Kephart pattern. The ESEE RB3 is Reuben Bolieu's scandi grind carver. The ESEE JG3 is James Gibson's 4.3 ounce drop point, and the ESEE CR2.5 is Cody Rowen's 2.5 ounce companion blade in Micarta or orange G-10. All four belong with the best bushcraft knives made in the USA.