Very nice review!!!!!
I've been a Dozier cheerleader for many years now, and can't see myself ever not being one. Bob is the real deal. Some makers are able to design very functional knives. Some have very good heat treatment of their steel. Some make good sheaths. Bob is one of the very very few who are able to do everything, and at a surprisingly low cost.
Your Dozier is wonderful. That color of micarta is gorgeous. The edge thickness of my Dozier K-4 (Doris) is very similar to yours. I measured it out at .015", using a vernier scale the other day. That is some wicked cutting efficiency in a fixed blade.
As for the incredible edge holding of Bob's D2, it really is amazing. You would think that his D2 might be a little bit too brittle at that level of edge holding, but it really is not. I think that my K-4 has only had one tiny little chip over the years. And that was from hacking my way though a walleye's backbone while on a concrete boat landing. The knife sailed through the walleye and smacked the concrete very hard. Even then, the chip was very small.
I'm itching for another Dozier, but just can't make up my mind on what to get. I like my convex ground K-1 so much, that I may got for a hollow ground K-1 next.
