The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
It's an epidemic!
David, the movie, the chase, and Gene Hackman, was also brilliant. I’d like to say nice Lambsfoot(I just did), but oh my goodness, what a beautiful tankard!
Nice flock shot, David!The belt from long ago and the buckle you subsequently posted are both interesting.
My lambsfoot this week is Cracker Jack, my AC stag lambsfoot:
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- GT
Anyway Cracker Jack looks cracking! 
My lambsfoot this week is Cracker Jack, my AC stag lambsfoot:
Sunny and superb shots of your ironwood lambsfoots, Preston and José!!
Thanks, Gary. Your AC is looking sharp as usual!Fancy ferrum lignum, Vince!
I know, but it's always in my pocket... it was bound to happen sooner or later.Oh wow! I thought you were saving it for Sunday best
Thanks, GT.Great shot of Sköll chasing Sol, John!
No incompetence over here eh?Plenty of incompetence over here too. It's an epidemic!
Star Wars
Thank you OG.
Thanks Jack. Sorry to hear about your latest trials with yet more incompetent laborers and especially about the bookcase. Hoping your back escapes further injury and or pain.Me too Dwight
I waited in for some furniture being delivered, having spent most of the morning moving stuff around to make room for it. Then the delivery guys turned up and told me that the large bookcase I'd paid for had been "damaged beyond repair" (which I don't entirely believe as it was a real solid thing). I wish I'd told them what they could do with the other items too (a very large chest of drawers and a set of shelves), as the lack of the large bookcase completely messed up my plans, and caused me a lot of extra work. I also noticed they scratched the chest of drawers in several places. Something else I've got to sort outI think I'm going to go and take a hot bath, and hope, against the odds, that my my back is OK tomorrow
Some awesome stag on your AC GT.
Funny, eh? But whoever drew that map needs to make Texas bigger!No incompetence over here eh?
Thanks Gary!That AC is an Awesome Classic, Ron!
My lambsfoot this week is Cracker Jack, my AC stag lambsfoot:
Cracker Jack is looking beautiful in that sunshine! 
When you read this, I hope it's after enjoying sleep filled and restful night. I absolutely HATE hearing about back problemsI wouldn't be at all surprised OG, it wasn't the sort of piece that would be easily damagedI think it was partly my back that kept me awake last night, but at the moment it's my middle back (rather than my lower back) that's causing me pain. It never gets anywhere near as bad there as my lower back, so if it's just like this again tomorrow, I won't mind too much. Worrying has kept me awake in the past, and just plain thinking a lot of times, but last night was just one of those nights, maybe I had too much coffee or something (though I never have more than a couple of cups)
Promise me you'll get in touch if you ever consider surgery. Dang, I could look at that knife all day long. OutstandingVery cool John
That's the 2017, right? Maybe somebody could help me out as I'm talking out of my...hat. I'm wondering if the problem might have something to do with your phone line? That's how the signal gets into the house, right? When you put the receiver to your ear, like listening for a dial tone, do you hear a white noise static? Might that be causing interference?Having to use my phone to edit this double-tap as my 'high speed' internet connection has died on me again
I may be prejudiced, but your Damascus Senator is smashing, and the other one ain’t bad, either,As a newcomer to the guardians...it's been a good week. My direct order from the A Wright factory arrived Friday. Stag was ok, action good but a little to much wiggle in the blade when open. Not worth the hassle to return so I'm putting it to work.
Now today I got to sign for (well technically my wife did) my guardians Damascus senator and it exceeded expectations. I was hesitant when I first ordered because I wasn't sure about the double bolster. I can see now that I was wrong to doubt it. Added some needed heft to a large knife. Choice stag on this example, very thin, and nicely figured. Blade is tight and snaps open and shut. Joint needs flushing but I'll get around to that later (in the pocket it goes!!).
The file work on the backspring was a nice touch...very impressive!!
I also may have found the antidote for my wife's judgemental stares as knives pile up in the mailbox. I had to ask her to retrieve the senator from the post office as it required signature and as a university professor whose semester just ended...she was available.
After the usually huffing and eyerolling, I got a raised eyebrow in picqued interest when I mentioned it was from one of Sheffield's last great cutleries still operating. Her mother is British (Norwich) and her older sister was born there (a fact she is terribly jealous of). After her ancestry dna test last year, we confirmed she is as British as a jar of clotted cream. Most goods from England are of interest in that family (note to self...buy more British cutlery).
On to the pictures:
. Congratulations!
Congrats on your new lambs. They are very nice and the damalamb senator is exquisite! Well done.As a newcomer to the guardians...it's been a good week. My direct order from the A Wright factory arrived Friday. Stag was ok, action good but a little to much wiggle in the blade when open. Not worth the hassle to return so I'm putting it to work.
Now today I got to sign for (well technically my wife did) my guardians Damascus senator and it exceeded expectations. I was hesitant when I first ordered because I wasn't sure about the double bolster. I can see now that I was wrong to doubt it. Added some needed heft to a large knife. Choice stag on this example, very thin, and nicely figured. Blade is tight and snaps open and shut. Joint needs flushing but I'll get around to that later (in the pocket it goes!!).
The file work on the backspring was a nice touch...very impressive!!
I also may have found the antidote for my wife's judgemental stares as knives pile up in the mailbox. I had to ask her to retrieve the senator from the post office as it required signature and as a university professor whose semester just ended...she was available.
After the usually huffing and eyerolling, I got a raised eyebrow in picqued interest when I mentioned it was from one of Sheffield's last great cutleries still operating. Her mother is British (Norwich) and her older sister was born there (a fact she is terribly jealous of). After her ancestry dna test last year, we confirmed she is as British as a jar of clotted cream. Most goods from England are of interest in that family (note to self...buy more British cutlery).
On to the pictures:
Grats on your knivesAs a newcomer to the guardians...it's been a good week. My direct order from the A Wright factory arrived Friday. Stag was ok, action good but a little to much wiggle in the blade when open. Not worth the hassle to return so I'm putting it to work.
Now today I got to sign for (well technically my wife did) my guardians Damascus senator and it exceeded expectations. I was hesitant when I first ordered because I wasn't sure about the double bolster. I can see now that I was wrong to doubt it. Added some needed heft to a large knife. Choice stag on this example, very thin, and nicely figured. Blade is tight and snaps open and shut. Joint needs flushing but I'll get around to that later (in the pocket it goes!!).
The file work on the backspring was a nice touch...very impressive!!
I also may have found the antidote for my wife's judgemental stares as knives pile up in the mailbox. I had to ask her to retrieve the senator from the post office as it required signature and as a university professor whose semester just ended...she was available.
After the usually huffing and eyerolling, I got a raised eyebrow in picqued interest when I mentioned it was from one of Sheffield's last great cutleries still operating. Her mother is British (Norwich) and her older sister was born there (a fact she is terribly jealous of). After her ancestry dna test last year, we confirmed she is as British as a jar of clotted cream. Most goods from England are of interest in that family (note to self...buy more British cutlery).
On to the pictures:
The file work on the Senator is sweet, isn't it? Nice thought about respecting the feelings of the family and I hope you can continue to keep them in mind in the future 
Thanks for all the kind words, I slept OK thanks, and I just have a few aches and pains so far today - fingers crossed 
