![]() ![]() The rest of this review will be discussing the Candiru purely from the perspective of it being used as a secondary bushcraft tool, and not as it being used as an end-all-be-all survival fixed blade.īeyond its size, my initial impressions of the ESEE Candiru were how thick the knife actually is when taking into account how little blade is. I will state that you shouldn’t be misled into thinking the Candiru is a replacement for a full-sized bushcraft fixed blade, as it’s very much a companion to a larger knife for serious expeditions. I am talking 5-inches-long-with-2-inches-of-edge levels of tiny, that somehow manages not to be even remotely near as limiting as I had originally assumed. No matter how you look at it, the ESEE Candiru is ridiculously tiny for a 1095 “outdoorsy” knife. Right off the bat we’ll begin by addressing the obvious “vertical challenge,” which as I’ve already stated, was the source of my questioning this knife in the first place. You’re definitely not getting a gimmick here – this bite-sized knife really performs!ĮSEE Candiru Small Fixed Blade Survival Neck Knife – Amazon / Blade HQĮSEE Candiru Add On Blaze Orange Scales – Amazon / Blade HQ Gonna say it here – I have never been happier to be wrong about my initial reservations. The Candiru is a Jeff Randall Design through and through regardless of its diminutive (only terms of size!) standing in the ESEE lineup. That being said, after a few years of ignoring the Candiru, I decided to just bite the bullet by picking one up to see firsthand if it could really be worthy of the ESEE moniker. My thoughts were this: how could a tiny lil’ 2 inch neck knife be considered a viable survival tool? I thought there was no way ESEE wasn’t backsliding a little bit with this product offer – it did sound like a gimmick. Traditionally speaking, ESEE Knives have been something like the voice of absolute reason in a market inundated with gimmicks and pseudo tactical nonsense. Over time, knife aficionados have come to expect a level of clean, functional purpose from Jeff Randall, and as a result, I was pretty shocked when the ESEE Candiru was announced. ![]()
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