Fred Fuller
Moderator Emeritus
Found this post at http://www.weerdworld.com/2011/knife-review-dozier-designs-folders/ while doing the daily gun blog surf, and thought it worth mentioning here. Especially since I brought this particular brand up in response to a recent question from a member here a couple of days ago.
To add a personal note, my dear wife has carried folding knives, generally a pair at the time, for many years. For a long time she carried Spydies, being one of the earliest of the Clipit fans. But being the prototypical absent minded professor that she is, she apparently was intent on becoming the Johnny Appleseed of Spydercos.
But I have yet to find a Spyderco tree anywhere....
So a couple or three years back, when I first ran across the Dozier Kabar folding hunter, I decided to try one to see just how much knife you could get for less than a sawbuck. Turns out, you could get a pretty good bit of knife in this particular package.
So I told the dear doctor that she could scatter $20 knives liberally about the countryside just as well as she could lose $40-50 ones, and I (as the designated family armorer) bought her a pair of the Kabars. I swapped sides with the clip on one of them, setting it up for left side carry, and waited. Eventually the protests died down.
Since then I have bought a few more of the Kabars, such that she has a stash of clean, sharp spares available when one of her carry knives gets dull or all gunked up with tape glue from opening boxes or whatever. She picks up a spare, I get handed the dull one to sharpen and clean, when I get done with it, it goes back in rotation and everybody's happy. And best of all she really likes the Kabars now, too. Apparently having and endless supply of clean, sharp ones, rolling up endlessly like sharks' teeth, is a big help in that regard. Near as I can recall, she has yet to loose one of the Kabars.
Go figure...
To add a personal note, my dear wife has carried folding knives, generally a pair at the time, for many years. For a long time she carried Spydies, being one of the earliest of the Clipit fans. But being the prototypical absent minded professor that she is, she apparently was intent on becoming the Johnny Appleseed of Spydercos.
But I have yet to find a Spyderco tree anywhere....
So a couple or three years back, when I first ran across the Dozier Kabar folding hunter, I decided to try one to see just how much knife you could get for less than a sawbuck. Turns out, you could get a pretty good bit of knife in this particular package.
So I told the dear doctor that she could scatter $20 knives liberally about the countryside just as well as she could lose $40-50 ones, and I (as the designated family armorer) bought her a pair of the Kabars. I swapped sides with the clip on one of them, setting it up for left side carry, and waited. Eventually the protests died down.
Since then I have bought a few more of the Kabars, such that she has a stash of clean, sharp spares available when one of her carry knives gets dull or all gunked up with tape glue from opening boxes or whatever. She picks up a spare, I get handed the dull one to sharpen and clean, when I get done with it, it goes back in rotation and everybody's happy. And best of all she really likes the Kabars now, too. Apparently having and endless supply of clean, sharp ones, rolling up endlessly like sharks' teeth, is a big help in that regard. Near as I can recall, she has yet to loose one of the Kabars.
Go figure...
