Arkansas Made Dozier Personal Utility – Stag
Item #: DK-PU3S
$345.00
Bob Dozier has designed and made a variety of fixed blade knives. In his Dozier Arkansas Made line of knives, there are knives designed for everyday carry, for hunting and camping, and what we call fighting knives (today might be called tactical, but we still prefer the traditional name). The Arkansas Made Personal Utility is a small everyday carry model which we have sold since 1995. We have continued to offer this knife on our website, and periodically in the A.G. Russell Catalog of Knives with black or brown Micarta and more recently with Desert Ironwood. We have in our warehouse an abundance of India Stag. Just a few weeks ago we worked with Daniel Crotts, who manages the Dozier Arkansas Made shop, to make this knife with the stag scales. This is the first time we have offered this knife with this handle material.
You will find that this is a knife that will be in constant use even if a larger knife is also being carried. The 2-7/8" clip point blade is D2 at 60-61 Rc. - the blade steel and heat-treatment that the Dozier Arkansas Made knives are so well known for. Measures 6-7/8" overall. Weighs about 4 oz. (5.1 oz. in the sheath). A black horizontal Kydex® belt sheath is molded to each individual knife. The knife and the sheath are handmade in the Dozier shop in Springdale, Arkansas.
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TypeFixed
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BladeClip Point
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Blade Length2-7/8"
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Blade SteelD2
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Rockwell60-61
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HandleIndia Stag
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TangFull
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Overall Length6-7/8"
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Weight4.0 oz.
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SheathKydex
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OriginUSA
Arkansas Made Dozier
Bob Dozier made his first knives when he was only twelve or thirteen years old. He told me the other day that after those few knives, he did not make another until he was about twenty-three and working as a rough neck in the oil fields in Louisiana. He talked about that first simple knife and then told a story about a co-worker asking to come to watch him make knives. Bob had made several knives by then and had created a small rough shop. He said the man stayed and watched until the knife was finished which took most of the day. When it was finished, he asked to look at it. After handling it for a while, he asked Bob how much he wanted for it. Without giving it any thought, Bob says he said $12.50. The man pulled out twelve one dollar bills and two quarters, laid them on the bench, got in his truck and left. Bob went in the house and told his wife he had just sold a knife which took him most of the day to make for $12.50. But, he told me, at that moment he knew he was going to be a knifemaker. That was about 1963.
If you had the opportunity to look through Bob’s collection of his old knives, you would find that he has made many different kinds of knives; hunters, Bowies and fighters, and more recently folders. You can definitely see a relationship between a pair of fighting knives he made in those early years and the practical, utilitarian fighters that began to appear from handmade knifemakers and knife manufactures from the late 1960s and became tremendously popular during the Viet Nam War era. These knives used to be called fighting knives. Today they are called Tactical Knives.
Arkansas Made Dozier Personal Utility – Stag
