Well, one of them.
Boker Subcom Wharcom. 2.75″ closed, 4.625″ open and a blade of 1.875″ makes for a truly pocket knife. Don’t let the small fool you, it is a well-built and solid knife.
The one on the bottom has been with me faithfully for at least 13 years almost every day. The scale no longer has purchase and the blade needs somebody who truly knows who to re-sharpen and sadly I already had a couple of bad experiences in the area.
I bought it because even though I was on a job that forbade any kind of “weapon,” I also found myself in need of a blade several times a week. I was carrying a regular size blade and I got the stinky eye from several busybodies. After I went with the Subcom, I was not challenged because they thought it was a utility knife. I did get one complain from an HR dumbass who asked me to help her open a box and when I pulled my little knife, she complained that it was against company rules. I agreed, apologized and left the office leaving the box unopened.
The Wharcoms apparently were very popular. The whole Subcom series has been out of production for a long while, but you can still find most of the models offered in other blade shapes. Not so with the Wharcliffe blade. I scored one about four and a half years ago and gave to the wife on a momentary spat of weakness and love for the woman. She fell in love with it and I am not even allowed to look at it from afar. I went back online looking for another one and zilch, vast nothingness.
Doing my regular searches, I bumped into somebody in Ebay who had not one, but two brand new and at a decent price. Two people were already “watching” the item and I decided not to go into a bidding war and bought them outright. Top one on the pic is the new EDC and the other one went into the depths of the safe alongside retiree knife as back up.
As I said, you can still buy Subcoms with other blade types. You will use the blade you carry and the size of the Subcom makes it second nature to drop in your pocket. Go ahead and get yourself one.
PS: One obvious question would be “Is it a defensive knife?” If you are thinking stabby-stabby, the answer is no, but you can velociraptor the s*** out of somebody with that thing. But I do carry a regular folder for “social interactions” and lately it has been a Kershaw Fatback.
I can sharpen anything. Ask Erin Palette from what she saw when we first met.
We had a corporate policy that knives carried by employees had to have blades less than three inches long as per NY law.
People in Alabama didn’t understand that. What was the point of some tiny knife. Management finally relented and defaulted to state law with a preference of less than four inches.
Half the people I know carry automatics just because we can.
I can’t understand people who get all hoplophobe when they ask for a TOOL for a very common task.
It’s not a weapon, it’s a knife, and you know why I have one, because you just asked me to use it for a VERY useful task.
I have knives I keep for self-defense, and those are NOT the knives I’m using to open boxes or trim a hangnail, as I want the edge to be factory perfect if I need to defend my life. (That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t use my pocket knife defensively, it just isn’t the reason why I’m carrying it.)
Also. I don’t get the people who are CONSTANTLY asking me for my knife, and yet don’t drop $10 for a cheap one of their own at Home Depot (and then realize their mistake, and buy something good).
We have opposable thumbs for a reason!!!!
It has been my lengthy experience that the term “HR dumbass” is commonly redundant.