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Purchased a Dan Crotts knife off the Classifieds from INTHEMTNS and it finally arrived! Really like the Sheep horn scales! Just a nice perfect EDC size! Frog----OUT!
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Very nice. I remember the original offering as I was too late to the show. Enjoy!
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Very nice. Dan makes a nice knife
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Kinda regret not buying that one. Congrats
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Daniel makes a great knife. I wanted a pair from he and Tom Krein, who ran the Dozier Arkansas Made shop before going on his own and Daniel taking over. I went to Daniel's flat grinding seminar at Blade 2007 and we worked out a knife to match the Panfish I'd just received from Tom. Good people ALL:
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I have exactly 1 Dozier made knife as well. I ordered it directly from Dozier back when Dan would have been working in the shop as well.
It's a Professional Guides Knife with black micarta, all I could afford as a single parent at the time. I carried it for many years and the belt loop of the kydex sheath broke and I put it away. I dug it out last night for my son and I to look at to see if we can repair it someway for regular use.
Thank you for the kind words gentlemen.
Frog----OUT!
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I have exactly 1 Dozier made knife as well. I ordered it directly from Dozier back when Dan would have been working in the shop as well.
It's a Professional Guides Knife with black micarta, all I could afford as a single parent at the time. I carried it for many years and the belt loop of the kydex sheath broke and I put it away. I dug it out last night for my son and I to look at to see if we can repair it someway for regular use.
Thank you for the kind words gentlemen.
Frog----OUT! It would be interesting to see how many guys here started with a Dozier as their gateway drug to higher end knives. Bob really deserves a lot of credit for showing what things like good design, good heat treat and thin grinds do to elevate knife performance. Surely a hall of fame level legend.
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I have exactly 1 Dozier made knife as well. I ordered it directly from Dozier back when Dan would have been working in the shop as well.
It's a Professional Guides Knife with black micarta, all I could afford as a single parent at the time. I carried it for many years and the belt loop of the kydex sheath broke and I put it away. I dug it out last night for my son and I to look at to see if we can repair it someway for regular use.
Thank you for the kind words gentlemen.
Frog----OUT! It would be interesting to see how many guys here started with a Dozier as their gateway drug to higher end knives. Bob really deserves a lot of credit for showing what things like good design, good heat treat and thin grinds do to elevate knife performance. Surely a hall of fame level legend. Actually, I do believe that my Dozier Professional Guides knife was my very first "Custom" order, however I'm not sure I would call this grind thin by any means! LOL It was and is hell for stout and has taken all of the use and abuse I ever threw it's way! Frog----OUT!
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It would be interesting to see how many guys here started with a Dozier as their gateway drug to higher end knives. That would be me...
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I wanna say my first custom was a David Winston.
Maybe second was a Dozier.
Both were D2.
Back before the interwebs, remember Dozier having an ad in the back pages of Outdoor life?
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Dozier was my first. I called their shop and spoke with Mrs. Dozier and placed my order. This was probably in the mid-90s. At one time I probably had 9 - 10 Dozier's around at any given time. Over the years I have had many of their hunting line knives. For the money, they are a pretty solid working knife.
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It would be interesting to see how many guys here started with a Dozier as their gateway drug to higher end knives. Bob really deserves a lot of credit for showing what things like good design, good heat treat and thin grinds do to elevate knife performance. Surely a hall of fame level legend. Yep, a Dozier was the first "nice" knife I purchased. I can't say that I've ever had a better "cutter" on flesh than his steel and grinds.
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It would be interesting to see how many guys here started with a Dozier as their gateway drug to higher end knives. That would be me... I see I'm not the only one to be enamored by the Professional Guide knife pattern.....LOL Frog---OUT!
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I have exactly 1 Dozier made knife as well. I ordered it directly from Dozier back when Dan would have been working in the shop as well.
It's a Professional Guides Knife with black micarta, all I could afford as a single parent at the time. I carried it for many years and the belt loop of the kydex sheath broke and I put it away. I dug it out last night for my son and I to look at to see if we can repair it someway for regular use.
Thank you for the kind words gentlemen.
Frog----OUT! You and I are in the same boat - my wife gave me a black pro guide about 15 years ago and it is my "go to" when a four legged critter needs cutting. I've tried others but keep coming back to this one. Picked up one with canvas micatra scales for my son a couple of years ago and plan to give it to him this coming season.
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Mr. A G Russel told me that Dozier was likely the one that ground this Morseth knife in either 1971 or 1972. I bought it in 1972 for $30. So I guess I have been using a Dozier made knife for a little over 50 years. I don't know if he was making his own brand of knife prior to going to work for Morseth in late 1971.
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I have exactly 1 Dozier made knife as well. I ordered it directly from Dozier back when Dan would have been working in the shop as well.
It's a Professional Guides Knife with black micarta, all I could afford as a single parent at the time. I carried it for many years and the belt loop of the kydex sheath broke and I put it away. I dug it out last night for my son and I to look at to see if we can repair it someway for regular use.
Thank you for the kind words gentlemen.
Frog----OUT! Send the knife and sheath to the shop - they will make you a new sheath.
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Context? I signed up for a 3 year wait. Beautiful knife dude.
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I have exactly 1 Dozier made knife as well. I ordered it directly from Dozier back when Dan would have been working in the shop as well.
It's a Professional Guides Knife with black micarta, all I could afford as a single parent at the time. I carried it for many years and the belt loop of the kydex sheath broke and I put it away. I dug it out last night for my son and I to look at to see if we can repair it someway for regular use.
Thank you for the kind words gentlemen.
Frog----OUT! Send the knife and sheath to the shop - they will make you a new sheath. Yes, for a fee. My son and I were able to fashion a new belt loop out of leather yesterday and secured it to the sheath using steel pop-rivets in the holes on the sheath. If I find the right piece of nylon webbing, I might replace it with that. It will then look like their "Wilderness" sheath they want $75 for. Frog---OUT!
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This crotts sets the bar pretty high.
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