You guys won't believe this, but I got another Dozier!

I would probably buy that knife at that price if I saw it. It would depend if I had the money in my pocket at the time. I have 6-7 Dozier knives and like them a lot. But I would have little use for that particular knife. I find that I don't really use the thicker bar steel Doziers such as the Wilderness knife which is a bit of a tank. On the other hand, I mostly just like a pointy woods knife which the wilderness knife is not.

But I believe my Pro Guides knife has the same 0.20" steel thickness and I like it a lot.... so it just depends I guess.
 
Someone1 said:
D2, wow. In the 1990's these would have been a steal.

No offense OP, but there is reason these are selling in pawnshops for a fraction of their original price. You think they don't know what they're worth? Pawnshops are very good at identifying a thing's worth. If a Dozier is selling for $100 at a pawnshop, that should tell you something about Doziers.
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Where are they selling? You can't exactly bladehq one. Just finding one in the wild is enough to give pause. Really tacky imo how you phrased your post.
 
Someone1 said:
D2, wow. In the 1990's these would have been a steal.

No offense OP, but there is reason these are selling in pawnshops for a fraction of their original price. You think they don't know what they're worth? Pawnshops are very good at identifying a thing's worth. If a Dozier is selling for $100 at a pawnshop, that should tell you something about Doziers.
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What I have learned is that neither you nor the pawn shop know what a Dozier is worth.
 
Not gonna lie I’m a bit envious of the OP those are two exceptional finds. Now I wonder if he will get a 3rd Dozier or Sebenza at a incredible price.

I wonder how much the pawn shop paid for these.
 
22-rimfire said:
I would probably buy that knife at that price if I saw it.
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My hands would of been shaking and I'd be fumbling with my wallet trying to steal that before someone else does.

I haven't seen one of those and at first thought it was a Pro-Guide. It must be a beast in person.

What's that in US dollars- $67.50?

Fantastic find. I'd be a regular if they don't know anything about knives.
 
braillediver said:
My hands would of been shaking and I'd be fumbling with my wallet trying to steal that before someone else does.

I haven't seen one of those and at first thought it was a Pro-Guide. It must be a beast in person.

What's that in US dollars- $67.50?

Fantastic find. I'd be a regular if they don't know anything about knives.
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It's approx $45 US dollars. It is a beast! I've already started to refer it as my Crocodile Dundee Knife lol
 
I'm guessing the guy who priced it at the pawn shop looked up "Dozier knife" on google and found a bunch of RAT and Kabar folders and priced this (much larger) fixed blade accordingly. Dangerous trap, really, to those that don't know better. Something like a custom/midtech Hinderer or Ken Onion or Sinkevich could easily be mistaken for its lower-cost production counterpart.

To me though, the more important question is what fool sold/pawned the Dozier for so little that the shop would sell for $80 CAD.
 
Planterz said:
To me though, the more important question is what fool sold/pawned the Dozier for so little that the shop would sell for $80 CAD.
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Not the original owner. ;)

cbrstar cbrstar You see any interesting folders at the shop that you don't want for yourself, be sure to talk to me first. :D
 
Guarantee that the pawn shop owner did exactly what Planterz said. Sad thing is that the prior owner got even less than it was sold for. I'm betting it was sold by a wife/widow/ex-wife/family-member that somehow ended up with it and had no clue what it was.

Someone1 - you are off the mark on the value of Dozier knives. That knife probably originally sold for around the $300 range. You could do a quick sale on it here on Bladeforums for a bit under that price. It might *only* be D2, but Bob Dozier is the man when it comes to getting it right.
 
SpySmasher said:
Not the original owner. ;)

cbrstar cbrstar You see any interesting folders at the shop that you don't want for yourself, be sure to talk to me first. :D
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For sure, is there anything particular you're looking for?

The particular pawnshops I goto are a chain. (Anyone in Alberta knows which ones they are. ) The weird thing is they are either way over priced or they are way under priced.
The overpriced stuff is when someone pawns and they keep pawning the same thing getting a little more each time till they eventually abandon it. So even if its junk it's ocerpriced junk because the pawnshop over paid.
The underpriced stuff is when people abandoned it right away. But it sells almost instantly the same day so you have to check regularly.

But I can't help think because Canadian knife laws are up in the air right now. Many pawn shops don't really want to deal with them as they might get stuck with them.
When I was a kid you could buy a firearm from any pawnshop and they all had them. Then the gun laws changed and now no pawn shops deal in them anymore.
 
hiwa said:
I live in Edm. You got a screaming deal my friend.
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I live in Wpg, and I've never seen anything close to a quality knife in a pawn shop or thrift shop. I'll start checking more often now tho.:D

Very nice find.
 
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