Hey, what’s up guys.
Got a cool video for you today.
We’re gonna be reading the winter Filson catalog page by page, talking about product
specs and talking about the pros and cons of buying work wear marketed to yacht owners
who’ve made their millions mucking horseshit on clam ranch for a living.
Look this guy’s gonna blow the mountain.
No that wasn’t a game of thrones reference.
Here’s white jesus, he scored this sweet Jac Shirt off a limp vendor after the cleansing
of the temple.
Ok no we aren’t.
Figured I’d try to start the video normally for a change.
I saw on Instagram last week Ben and Matt from Blade HQ talking about how a video should
start?
With what’s up guys.
No one else saw that?
It was funny to me.
Today’s video is about another knife fortunately, or maybe unfortunately- I’m trying to read
the room.
What’s this channel about?
The Ka-Bar Dozier, dossier, dozer, gozer.
A knife made for the average not in a Filson catalog bro, the guy that’s said AUS-8 ain’t
too bad a time or two in his life.
But before we get into any of that.
And while you’re trying to figure out if there’s literally any connection between
a $20- Ka-Bar pocket knife and a clothing catalog for assholes wearing our iconic heavyweight
brushed flannel that’s been providing warmth in the field for men for decades, let’s
take a look at the dimensions like the overall length and weight.
I bought a jacket, a belt and wallet on sale from them a few years ago.
And I guess they think I have a trust fund now because they send me maybe 6 beautifully
shot catalogs a year.
Blade size and cutting edge.
Gotta charge $400 for a mackinaw cruiser to hire the sexy rugged models.
Handle Size grip area.
Shooting them with Hasselblads.
Spine Thickness and Handle Thickness.
I wish I had a hassleblad.
Err a red.
Tallness Closed.
Thoughout the decades I’ve been doing this channel the Dozier comes up, and a follower
on Instagram was asking about it recently so I decided what the hell and bought it.
The Dozier is a sorta compact, lightweight knife- that’s designed to be an affordable
functional pocket knife, but not impress dudes into knives.
It features a right about 3 inch drop point hollow ground blade made from Aus-8 steel.
It’s that steel everyone wishes was the marginally better Sanvik.
I say that because recently I was browsing Cedric and Adas steel test spreadsheet, and
while Aus-8 ranked lower in steel tests than a few of the Sandviks, calling Sandvik good
and Aus-8 bad doesn’t make sense.
Here Aus-8 is an ok steel, and sandvik is like Okay Okay (slightly more enthusiastic).
I link those below.
The blade is deployed by a thumb stud, and is configured for right handed deployment
out of the box.
But you can swap the thumb stud if you have a star key, and flip the pocket clip for easier
ickier left handed deployment.
It’s not a quick deployment, just a gentle thumb motion, and it opens, as a bird softly
tweets.
You can even use two hands if you’d rather take it slower.
Lockup is handled by a lockback mechanism, kinda stiff, but solid.
You can close it one handed if you flick downward when pressing the lock, but be careful to
have a finger forward so the tang hits your finger.
Then close it the rest of the way.
You can always close it two handed though- ain’t no one in a hurry.
The handle is kept light by a linerless zytel, which is a form of hard wearing plastic.
It gives plenty of texture in the wet, even though I have mainly used it indoors the past
few weeks.
There is plenty of room for my hand- and it doesn’t feel small in my grip.
Pocket clip is not deep carry, and youre looking at about 8 tenths of an inch sticking out
of your pocket.
The clip is tight and snappy, and it looks to be a painted stainless steel.
I would expect flakage as you carry it for a while.
It can be swapped to the right or left side in a tip up configuration.
Comparisons.
First the Dozier.
A good buy for only $20.
Great for every day carry, or as a backup in a tackle box, or as yet a footnote in your
knife addiction.
I own a few Japanese made, and chinese made spydercos, and this feels on par with those.
There’s no up and down or side to side blade play.
Now the Buck 110 Select… if you want a little bigger, and made in USA, this is a good choice.
Not possible to close 1 handed though.
I reviewed this about two weeks ago, and people are still mad about how I pointed out the
Buck 110 original has always been a heavy knife for it’s size.
Moral of the story is for some people the worst thing for another man to say on the
internet is they’d prefer knives with pocket clips that aren’t 7 ounces.
Now the Spyderco Delica 4, they made this is a regular drop point too, but I’m not
gonna buy this knife again.
This is about $70, has a steel slightly better then Sandvik and it’s a little smaller and
easier to close one handed.
If someone wanted a good knife with more of an emphasis on price I’d go with the Buck
or Dozier.
Now the Spyderco Tenacious.
This one has a similar steel to the dozier, but it’s larger, and has an easier quick
deployment with one handed opening and closing… it’s a larger knife though so it’s heavier
and about $40.
I wish I had the Ontario Rat 2, but I couldn’t find it for the review, so if you could imagine
that knife for a second, and also have you seen it laying around? and last but not least
the Chris Reeve Sebenza.
Ok just fucking with ya.
That was for the Filson crowd.
Although spending $400 on a mackinaw cruiser- buying 2 or 3 kabar dozier may actually make
more sense- unless you’re this guy.
So if you don’t have a ton of money and need something light weight, it’s hard to
go wrong with a $20 knife.
The Dozier is made in Taiwan feels on par with a spyderco, a good every day carry knife
that won’t impress assholes who own Chris Reeve knives, but will get a nice thank you
from a person who asks if you have a knife they could borrow for a quick second to pry
open a paint can, then cut their tuna fish sandwich in half and immediately close it
without wiping down the blade.
If you like this sort of review, subscribe to the channel, give the video a thumbs, up,
patreon, you know the usual.
And as of right now, I am probably only capable of putting out a video a week, so in the mean
time if you could just either watch this twice, or watch a beer review in the mean time that
would be great.
Thanks for watching.
Steel tests: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-steel-table-17366331