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Got back from a trip, my Edit was included in the overload of mail. Classy Boker Plus black box, the artistic little fob came attached, and included was a black-coated bead chain to be cut and sized later.
As expected, the knife is a suberb piece of engineering and design. I always doubted the original Subcom Fixed because of the size and material, the Edit read my mind with a durable blade coating and more comfortable curve. While most small knives include a fob for gripping, the Edit's tassel doesn't strike me as essential for drawing, but it does have a certain flair to it and I'm keeping it on. Later on, I may consider taking off the 'legs' of the wonderfully tight monkey's fist, it would offer the same grip advantages but would be easier to carry casually without the cords flopping around.
Wearing the knife around the neck over a dark shirt, it's certainly low-profile with the exception of the little paracord octopus guy hanging off it. Even sheathed it's got a perfectly flat profile with rugged etching along the top. The cut-away handle may allow for cord-wrapping later on, but for now it provides a nice grip. The silver text on the blade, including the CLB logo besides the Boker flag. Some rougher handling in some chores hasn't so much as smudged the finish, if they used this process on the Subcoms I'd gladly pay extra for it.
While the angle of the thing may resemble the Trance, the feel is very close to my Subcom variants despite being thinner and more stable in the smaller fingers. I'd love to work all day with this thing, good control and stability, definitely a worker of a knife. Only thing I don't like is that it isn't a Wharncliffe blade, but then again I'm in the minority there, and those blades just don't look as good as the Subcom leaf ones.
The sheath...Excellent at first. Lot of mounting holes, some zip-ties ought to make a makeshift belt attachment if needed and it'll allow a very different angles for neck-carry or a Mercharness. Then, I jumped over a pile of boxes and heard that scary ringing clatter. The knife did pop out of the sheath while I was wearing it, but didn't hit my feet or anyone else. May have flattened the tip slightly on impact, but some Sharpmaker stones seemed to have straightened it out again. Examining the sheath closer, it's a clamshell design of two plastic molded sides, stuck tightly together with the metal grommets keeping them tight. Very secure and stable, except for the extension of the sheath that drops down below the grommets, down over the spine where you'd place your thumb when you grab the knife to draw it. This little thumb ramp on the sheath has nothing keeping the sides together except the tension of the grommets throughout the rest of it. So, with the knife in it, you can see the plastic sides being split apart, leaving open air between sheath and knife. Pinching off the split entirely would make the sheath unusable as it provides the flexibility of the sheath and is obviously meant to be there, but if something kept it just a tad tighter...Glueing it isn't an option obviously, I'll try an elastic band at an angle across the sheath. It's not an integral flaw, on paper the idea would work fine, but it's just not tight enough in the one I got. Testing it now, the knife stays put most of the time. but something like landing after a jump pops it out. I'll try my inner tube band idea at first, but any ideas are welcome in making it tighter but not sticking me with a knife that may as well have a trigger lock on it.
Besides the sheath issue, the knife itself is fantastic. I'm trying to figure out ways to mount it, such as something to pin it in a jacket or onto a pack strap, or even a pull-cord for pocket draws. While it conforms to Illinois laws by size...I'm not walking down the Magnificent Mile with a neck knife out, and the sheath issue doesn't lend itself to under-shirt carry. This will be my new 'Stare all you want, I'm handy' knife for the outdoors, chores, projects, any time where having a knife on your neck isn't an issue. If I can work out a concealed carry method, even better.
This knife is small enough that I'd feel comfortable using it discretely in public as it doesn't scream fixed blade. As much as I respect my Wharcom in training and in heavy use on cord, cardboard, vegetation, and other tough culprits...The real moments where I love the thing are when I can covertly deploy it in the open, cut my pizza (my local pizzeria provides butter knives with no actual edge to cut this coal-fired crust) and hide it again without anyone at my table noticing. This Edit, despite the Special Forces-esque (High-performance, but unique) appearance, may fill that same niche in a people-friendly (or people-unnoticed) knife for around town as well as for hard work.
In the coming weeks, I look forward to adding a Keycom to join my Wharcom and Edit. Thankfully I'm moving away from jobs that require more labor, so a Hyper isn't needed. Wanted and highlighted on my 'If she lets me' list, but not necessary. For now, I'm tinkering with my hours-old Edit and very satisfied with it. The Direkt seems to be taking the limelight with it being one monster of a folder, but for those in the small fixed blade niche the Edit is a fine knife.
As expected, the knife is a suberb piece of engineering and design. I always doubted the original Subcom Fixed because of the size and material, the Edit read my mind with a durable blade coating and more comfortable curve. While most small knives include a fob for gripping, the Edit's tassel doesn't strike me as essential for drawing, but it does have a certain flair to it and I'm keeping it on. Later on, I may consider taking off the 'legs' of the wonderfully tight monkey's fist, it would offer the same grip advantages but would be easier to carry casually without the cords flopping around.
Wearing the knife around the neck over a dark shirt, it's certainly low-profile with the exception of the little paracord octopus guy hanging off it. Even sheathed it's got a perfectly flat profile with rugged etching along the top. The cut-away handle may allow for cord-wrapping later on, but for now it provides a nice grip. The silver text on the blade, including the CLB logo besides the Boker flag. Some rougher handling in some chores hasn't so much as smudged the finish, if they used this process on the Subcoms I'd gladly pay extra for it.
While the angle of the thing may resemble the Trance, the feel is very close to my Subcom variants despite being thinner and more stable in the smaller fingers. I'd love to work all day with this thing, good control and stability, definitely a worker of a knife. Only thing I don't like is that it isn't a Wharncliffe blade, but then again I'm in the minority there, and those blades just don't look as good as the Subcom leaf ones.
The sheath...Excellent at first. Lot of mounting holes, some zip-ties ought to make a makeshift belt attachment if needed and it'll allow a very different angles for neck-carry or a Mercharness. Then, I jumped over a pile of boxes and heard that scary ringing clatter. The knife did pop out of the sheath while I was wearing it, but didn't hit my feet or anyone else. May have flattened the tip slightly on impact, but some Sharpmaker stones seemed to have straightened it out again. Examining the sheath closer, it's a clamshell design of two plastic molded sides, stuck tightly together with the metal grommets keeping them tight. Very secure and stable, except for the extension of the sheath that drops down below the grommets, down over the spine where you'd place your thumb when you grab the knife to draw it. This little thumb ramp on the sheath has nothing keeping the sides together except the tension of the grommets throughout the rest of it. So, with the knife in it, you can see the plastic sides being split apart, leaving open air between sheath and knife. Pinching off the split entirely would make the sheath unusable as it provides the flexibility of the sheath and is obviously meant to be there, but if something kept it just a tad tighter...Glueing it isn't an option obviously, I'll try an elastic band at an angle across the sheath. It's not an integral flaw, on paper the idea would work fine, but it's just not tight enough in the one I got. Testing it now, the knife stays put most of the time. but something like landing after a jump pops it out. I'll try my inner tube band idea at first, but any ideas are welcome in making it tighter but not sticking me with a knife that may as well have a trigger lock on it.
Besides the sheath issue, the knife itself is fantastic. I'm trying to figure out ways to mount it, such as something to pin it in a jacket or onto a pack strap, or even a pull-cord for pocket draws. While it conforms to Illinois laws by size...I'm not walking down the Magnificent Mile with a neck knife out, and the sheath issue doesn't lend itself to under-shirt carry. This will be my new 'Stare all you want, I'm handy' knife for the outdoors, chores, projects, any time where having a knife on your neck isn't an issue. If I can work out a concealed carry method, even better.
This knife is small enough that I'd feel comfortable using it discretely in public as it doesn't scream fixed blade. As much as I respect my Wharcom in training and in heavy use on cord, cardboard, vegetation, and other tough culprits...The real moments where I love the thing are when I can covertly deploy it in the open, cut my pizza (my local pizzeria provides butter knives with no actual edge to cut this coal-fired crust) and hide it again without anyone at my table noticing. This Edit, despite the Special Forces-esque (High-performance, but unique) appearance, may fill that same niche in a people-friendly (or people-unnoticed) knife for around town as well as for hard work.
In the coming weeks, I look forward to adding a Keycom to join my Wharcom and Edit. Thankfully I'm moving away from jobs that require more labor, so a Hyper isn't needed. Wanted and highlighted on my 'If she lets me' list, but not necessary. For now, I'm tinkering with my hours-old Edit and very satisfied with it. The Direkt seems to be taking the limelight with it being one monster of a folder, but for those in the small fixed blade niche the Edit is a fine knife.
