#2273358 - 06/24/08 07:06 PM
Dozier D2 Blade - How to protect
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rradams
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I recently acquired a Dozier Straight Hunter in D2 with the typical hollow grind. This is my first knife of this quality and blade type. I've read numerous places that the hollow D2 grind can be a little fragile.
What type of activities or situations do I need to avoid to keep the blade in good shape?
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#2273370 - 06/24/08 07:15 PM
Re: Dozier D2 Blade - How to protect
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Opening cans is out. Careful cutting leg joints, use it on meat or skin no worries
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#2273661 - 06/24/08 10:29 PM
Re: Dozier D2 Blade - How to protect
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As long as you remember that knives are for cutting your fine. If you want to use it to chop or pry you will have problems but thats what axes are for.
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#2274327 - 06/25/08 09:03 AM
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A buddy told me a few times that a knife is the most expensive and least effective pry bar you will ever own. Use, but don't abuse.
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#2274755 - 06/25/08 12:40 PM
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No prying, and do not use a rock or hammer to drive the blade through a bone or tree limb. Do not chop or hack.
DO NOT try to twist and turn and work it through the pelvic bone of a deer or other game animal. This will cause the blade to develop a half moon shape about the half the size of a quarter, broken out just in front of the guard. Don't ask how I know this.
Knife makers can easily identify these chipped out half moons, and their causes, so don't take it back to the knife maker and act like you don't know what caused it.
Do not use it to dig up clams and crabs on sandy beaches. If you are dressing a game animal and need to lay the knife down, DO NOT stick the blade in the ground. Another one you don't need to ask about.
Do not try to cut nails, bolts, staples, rivets, wire, and especially rocks. Do not use as a screw driver. Do not throw the knife. Especially do not try to pry bent nails out of a board or tree.
D2 is moderately stain resistant, but not as rust resistant as 440C. Clean and dry the knife before returning it to it's sheath. You might not want to store it in the sheath. Depending on the method used to tan the leather, some of it will cause the blade to rust. Do not allow blood to remain on the blade after use.
If you, or someone you let use it, sticks it into a tree instead of returning it to the holster, pull the blade straight out. Do not bend the tip back and forth trying to loosen it.
D2 makes for an outstanding cutting tool. However, it will not replace an axe, chainsaw, pry bar, chisel or a wedge. Or a screwdriver. Nor will it replace a step you drive into a tree to climb it. Nor will it replace one of those things rock climbers drive into cracks in rocks to use as a foot hold.
The above cautions apply to all knives, not just to Doziers and D2.
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#2275970 - 06/26/08 03:50 AM
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1234567
Good summary!!! And as noted, applies to all knives--except in life threatening situations of course.
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#2276827 - 06/26/08 11:05 AM
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MRK, correct about the emergency situations.
I read about a helicopter pilot who had to use his Randall to make a door in a helicopter, because the original design of the helicopter did not include a door where it was needed.
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#2277389 - 06/26/08 04:05 PM
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1234567,
Im guessing you have cussed a piece of D2 a few times while heat treating as well....
Still one of my favorites when it comes to unzipping game and taking their shirts off. One day I will but some S30V to the test but D2 and 154CM will take care of a lot of stuff.
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#2277423 - 06/26/08 04:36 PM
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After I graduated from files and industrial hack saw blades, the first knives I made were from D2, at about 58 RC. All of my blades, then and now, have been commercially heat treated.
I like a mirror finish, and D2 won't take a good mirror finish, and they were so unbelievablely difficult to sharpen with a hand held stone.
I made two D2 folders, one for me and one for my dad, and we carried them for everyday use. Stuff like skinning wire, everything you are not supposed to use a knife for, and everything you would use a pocket knife for, like peeling apples, whittling tooth picks, and of course, skinning wire.
The stuff just didn't seem to hold an edge all that good, in comparison to how hard it was to sharpen, and as I mentioned, was so almost impossible to sharpen, that we both quit using them and I started using 154 CM at Rc 61.
I still have one or two of the first D2 knives I made, and the third one, I think it is the third one, was sold to W.D. Randall. As far as I know, it is still in his museum in Orlando.
Selling one of my knives to Mr. Randall was the biggest ego trip of my knife making enterprise. When he said that he wanted to buy it, my hat size increased three sizes.
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#2277974 - 06/26/08 09:23 PM
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Thanks for all the info. This is probably the first knife, hopefully not to be the last, that I really cared enough about to really want to take care of.
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