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True on the initial order part - and it only took some of us once on the refurb part (and my earlier post was to those who complained the Dozier handles are too slick - and they friggin ARE - even his blasted ones) to figure out it was kinda silly to pay with shipping from $15-$35 for something you can do yourself for $0.20....

Stick,

His website.....

http://www.seamountknifeworks.com/index.htm

Wicked looking filet knives.

Appreciate the info men.

I'll be sniffing.......................

I can like his 3.5" B&T.

Anybody have a guess as to how much and how long,factoring S30V and Micarta scales?.............................

Mine took just shy of three months and was just north of two Ben Franklins. Communication was really good - I got a couple of emails and one phone update during that time. Course that was before the last steel price increases, and it goes without saying I can't speak for the man... which leads to:

seamount@bigplanet.com

as an alternate email if you get no joy from the "Contact Us" link on the website...

The internet sure gets smaller all the time. I made the statement above that Bob doesn't do much of the grinding anymore based on a post he'd made recently on BladeForums.

I was browsing the forum on the Dozier Knives website this morning, and reading Bob's comments on the thread MOGC started linking back to this one prompted me to revisit BladeForums and I find I did indeed misstate to some extent Bob's post, which says quote "Dan does most of the grinding on Ar. made knives but we all work in this shop. I grind all the mirror polished knives and the folders." ...

Since I'm only interested in the Arkansas Made Knives my mind must have leapt over the second sentence and I stand corrected - it appears if one wants a knife personally made by Bob (and not that anyone here has said such, it's just sort of a theme with some collectors I know to want the product from the "name" himself) ordering a polished knife or folder would do it...

That B & T looks mighty tempting!

I find Dozier's knives to be excellent but most are WAY too big. His "Arkansas Traveler" is a completely satisfactory knife and I have one of his "Dozier Personal" (K-28) knives on order.

It is unfortunate that if you order S30V the price skyrockets. But as others have said, he does a good job with his customary D2.

RS

JB,
I just e-mailed Seamount to see if we can come up with a mutually pleasing design for my purposes. I'll let the forum know how it goes.
Thanks for the link.
RS

I was gonna try to catch him the other side of the weekend and approach him about a deviation of his B&T.

Will try to get him on the horn................

From what I've read about him, he sure knows steels. I'd be inclined to take notice of what he recommends.

I just picked up a K-4 Straight Hunter friday with ironwood handles. Really nice blade. Bob is a pretty nice fella too. I find his horizontal kydex sheath to be really interesting. Bob explained how he came up with the idea. Saw him at that Atlanta Blade show.

Spent some time this afternoon wandering around the Cobb Centre myself. Bob's knives have really gone up in price of late. The Canoe, my favorite Dozier pattern, is now over $200 in D2. Bob is a nice guy....

I was only able to spend about 5 hours at BLADE this year, so I may be way off base, but attendance and sales seemed way down. That said, was still a good time and as usual in the "booth" arena Bob and Chris Reeve were surrounded...though William Henry was getting a lot of attention as well.

Highlight for me was the Cutting Championship where Burt Foster came in second by literally a couple of threads of rope - Burt is [color:"red"]THE [/color] bargain in custom knives right now!!!!!!

Links?....................

burtfoster.com

Obliged.....................

I don't think Burt's knives are your thing since he works in carbon steel...I need the properties of a forged blade for some of the chopping and hacking and prying tasks on our ranches and Burt's stuff is kick butt for that. I probably should have said above "Burt is THE bargain in forged custom knives right now!!!!!!" I'll post some pics of the little hunter he made me in differentually heat treated O-1 on another thread as it seems I've diverted this one twice now to Burt and Phil....

Last diversion, but will also add in the "THE bargain" category for stock removal guys IME it's still Gene and Geno (Ingram and Denning) by a landslide...

What is the typical price range for Burt Foster's knives? I went to his web site and there are no prices. I have no idea what prices he charges.

I have a price list from last December with most of the kniives on the site pictured and the prices run from $175 to $2900...should span most folks' budgets...