Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Jack Black]

That's seen some use.

Yeah, it's a good user this one, the ebony scales are tough as old boots It was only when I started using it on fruit that the polish really started to wear, even then you get a slightly different patina, and I'm sure it'd polish up again pretty easily

 

[gonebad395]

Tell ya what after seeing these just can't wait until mine arrives.

 

[Jack Black]

I've just checked a couple of tracking numbers, and I see that the first knives have already crossed the pond

 

[mrknife]

usually I watch my packages like a hawk, well wait for the updates, but usps did something to their website recently that made it very buggy. the updates only come sporadically or if the package is about to be delivered.

 

[Jack Black]

usually I watch my packages like a hawk, well wait for the updates, but usps did something to their website recently that made it very buggy. the updates only come sporadically or if the package is about to be delivered.

Packages seem to spend longest sitting at Customs

 

[mrknife]

Packages seem to spend longest sitting at Customs

thats not a fun wait either

 

[Jack Black]

thats not a fun wait either

It sure isn't!

 

[Archie]

Cheers Archie, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on using your Rosewood Lambsfoot, given that you said you quite enjoyed the handle ergonomics.

Took me a while to make it back here. Once I started sharpening the Rosewood, I confirmed that the blade curve, though slight, was too much for a flat stone. Grind is uneven with a lot of steel needing to be removed from the concave side. I like the knife though, so I'm working through it...it's just slow going with the corners of my Sharpmaker. Eventually, it will make it into my pocket.

 

[waynorth]

I hate it when you check the tracking, and the package doean't seem to have moved for 4-5 days!!

 

[mrknife]

I hate it when you check the tracking, and the package doean't seem to have moved for 4-5 days!!

mine is still in the UK i think

 

[Cambertree]

Took me a while to make it back here. Once I started sharpening the Rosewood, I confirmed that the blade curve, though slight, was too much for a flat stone. Grind is uneven with a lot of steel needing to be removed from the concave side. I like the knife though, so I'm working through it...it's just slow going with the corners of my Sharpmaker. Eventually, it will make it into my pocket.

Thanks for the progress report, Archie. Yeah the diamond or cubic boron nitride rods would speed up this part of the process considerably. You could also try coarse wet'n'dry paper, glued or clipped to a dowel to do this, or alternatively, chamfer the edge of one of your coarse grit benchstones, and set it at a fixed angle like the Sharpmaker rods.

Here's an old pic of my wee flock of Lambs, each one sharpened in a different way.

The golden ox-horn knife was eventually laid flat on a stone and thinned out, then blended to a bit of a convex contour down to the edge with wet'n'dry paper on a mousepad.

The jigged bone handled Unity was sharpened very minimally on a ceramic hone to preserve the blade patina (it was already quite sharp and thin behind the edge, by design).

The Ebony Lambsfoot was ground to a 15 degree per side Sharpmaker edge, going through the full progression from diamond up through medium, fine and ultrafine rods.

The stag handled Lambsfoot was thinned out behind the edge on bench stones, then given a light edge apex with the utrafine Sharpmaker rods.

Good luck with that!

Cheers for that Jack my friend , I intend to catch up on this during the weekend!

Good to see you here Duncan my friend, hopefully we'll be seeing a bit more of you in future, mate.

Been trying to eat more veggies

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Another tasty looking feed there, my friend. Since the return of my erstwhile Ebony Lambsfoot, it's resumed its former position as 'my everything knife'. Well, nearly everything, but you know what I mean!

Your primo Guardians Lambsfoot is just as startlingly beautiful to me, as the first time you showed it, every time I see a fresh pic with different lighting!

 

[Will Power]

Chin really like that Stag handled LF fine looking knife

Regards, Will

 

[screened porch]

I had to look.
Mine is still at the International Mail Centre being prepared for despatch overseas.

They're probably preparing it extra carefully for super-fast-track overseas. Yeah, that's it.

Or they've lost it! Nah. ...

 

[Campbellclanman]

I've just checked a couple of tracking numbers, and I see that the first knives have already crossed the pond

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Nice work Jack.
I have to say that that Knife is outstanding!

 

[Cambertree]

Chin really like that Stag handled LF fine looking knife

Regards, Will

Thanks Will. I'm very fond of this knife too, not only because it was a very thoughtful gift, but it's also the only true left handed Traditional knife I have. It's also been quite interesting to compare the 'straight', symmetrical swell end style handle in extended use, with the swayback handled Lambsfoot knives.

Jer screened porch , it struck me that the lefty blade A. Wright make for this model, might have been more apt a fit for your two bladed Lambsfoot, in terms of nail nick accessibility.

I had my Ebony Lambfoot out to take a quick snap, and this curious fellow flew down to investigate.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Thank you Chin, I just struggle to get the time- and when I get behind in a good Thread- like this one- I find it hard to get time, I am a terrible creature of habit- got half an hour- cool - i will climb in to traditionals- Old Knives, Barlow, HJ etc...fly out again lol.

Wow- That Stag is awesome! that's a beautiful Knife, I am going to go through this week and have a dig to see just how many Sheep-foots are stashed away, what a beautiful shot of a Great Looking Bird, That Kookaburra when you study it has a tough Beak!

 

[Campbellclanman]

I hope its ok to stray from the Older Traditional Sheepsfoot, but to include a couple of kinda cool Sheeps foot Knives of mine, before I headed to the GEC Rendezvous I contacted Evan to see what he was bringing - or what he had for sale- he is getting up there no doubt with his workmanship of his Knives, ...he told me he was drawing out plans for a Sheepsfoot- ok...that had my ears pricked up- so I sent him in a request as to do this Knife for me- with the specs...my specs were...
1, Medium Pull- between 5 or 6 ( I am cursed with sort nails folks- a REAL curse when you are a knife nut like we are ).

2, I wanted a nice heavy Swedge.

3, I wanted Stag- Nice Stag!

4, Bolsters we flipped back e-mails a wee bit- I wanted to give Evan a bit of freedom - but Pinched? , although I did ask for the Bolster to be Rats Tailed.

5, Shield? NO Shield with Stag- I wanted the Stag to do all the Talking for me.
Here are some VERY poor quality rushed flicks with another Evan Hybrid TC, I really love both of these Knives.
I am STOKED with Evans Custom that he did for me- it's perfect to what I wanted!.

Evans Hafting of the Stag on the Custom is quite well executed, the Early English and German Knives at times had extremely thin Stag at the edges where the Stag meets Liner, Not everywhere- is it so so thin - but overall- VERY nice job, I am not sure if Evan set out to replicate such work- and to be honest I didnt ask for that, Texture of Stag at times you need to accept things- I dont feel that when I look at this Knife- I just smile- no having to accept anything about this Knife- at all.

 

[Jack Black]

Took me a while to make it back here. Once I started sharpening the Rosewood, I confirmed that the blade curve, though slight, was too much for a flat stone. Grind is uneven with a lot of steel needing to be removed from the concave side. I like the knife though, so I'm working through it...it's just slow going with the corners of my Sharpmaker. Eventually, it will make it into my pocket.

Thanks for the progress report Archie, sorry it's taking so long. That's good advice from Chin. You can also tape wet 'n' dry around your Sharpmaker rods

I hate it when you check the tracking, and the package doean't seem to have moved for 4-5 days!!

mine is still in the UK i think

Words like 'Express' and 'Priority' seem to take on different meanings when it comes to shipping, I was hoping a couple would have arrived this weekend, as I shipped the first ones eight days ago now

Thanks for the progress report, Archie. Yeah the diamond or cubic boron nitride rods would speed up this part of the process considerably. You could also try coarse wet'n'dry paper, glued or clipped to a dowel to do this, or alternatively, chamfer the edge of one of your coarse grit benchstones, and set it at a fixed angle like the Sharpmaker rods.

Here's an old pic of my wee flock of Lambs, each one sharpened in a different way.

The golden ox-horn knife was eventually laid flat on a stone and thinned out, then blended to a bit of a convex contour down to the edge with wet'n'dry paper on a mousepad.

The jigged bone handled Unity was sharpened very minimally on a ceramic hone to preserve the blade patina (it was already quite sharp and thin behind the edge, by design).

The Ebony Lambsfoot was ground to a 15 degree per side Sharpmaker edge, going through the full progression from diamond up through medium, fine and ultrafine rods.

The stag handled Lambsfoot was thinned out behind the edge on bench stones, then given a light edge apex with the utrafine Sharpmaker rods.

Good luck with that!



Good to see you here Duncan my friend, hopefully we'll be seeing a bit more of you in future, mate.



Another tasty looking feed there, my friend. Since the return of my erstwhile Ebony Lambsfoot, it's resumed its former position as 'my everything knife'. Well, nearly everything, but you know what I mean!

Your primo Guardians Lambsfoot is just as startlingly beautiful to me, as the first time you showed it, every time I see a fresh pic with different lighting!

Thanks Chin, the colour of the horn seems to change quite dramatically, depending on the light Thanks for the excellent sharpening advice, and it's great to see your flock, and interesting to read how you sharpened each one quite differently

Nice work Jack.
I have to say that that Knife is outstanding!

Thanks a lot pal

Thanks Will. I'm very fond of this knife too, not only because it was a very thoughtful gift, but it's also the only true left handed Traditional knife I have. It's also been quite interesting to compare the 'straight', symmetrical swell end style handle in extended use, with the swayback handled Lambsfoot knives.

Jer screened porch , it struck me that the lefty blade A. Wright make for this model, might have been more apt a fit for your two bladed Lambsfoot, in terms of nail nick accessibility.

I had my Ebony Lambfoot out to take a quick snap, and this curious fellow flew down to investigate.

Cool pic Chin!

Thank you Chin, I just struggle to get the time- and when I get behind in a good Thread- like this one- I find it hard to get time, I am a terrible creature of habit- got half an hour- cool - i will climb in to traditionals- Old Knives, Barlow, HJ etc...fly out again lol.

Wow- That Stag is awesome! that's a beautiful Knife, I am going to go through this week and have a dig to see just how many Sheep-foots are stashed away, what a beautiful shot of a Great Looking Bird, That Kookaburra when you study it has a tough Beak!

Yeah, I am just the same Duncan, particularly recently, there are a lot of threads that I have missed so much of, I am kind of intimidated by! Great to see you here anyway mate

I hope its ok to stray from the Older Traditional Sheepsfoot, but to include a couple of kinda cool Sheeps foot Knives of mine, before I headed to the GEC Rendezvous I contacted Evan to see what he was bringing - or what he had for sale- he is getting up there no doubt with his workmanship of his Knives, ...he told me he was drawing out plans for a Sheepsfoot- ok...that had my ears pricked up- so I sent him in a request as to do this Knife for me- with the specs...my specs were...
1, Medium Pull- between 5 or 6 ( I am cursed with sort nails folks- a REAL curse when you are a knife nut like we are ).

2, I wanted a nice heavy Swedge.

3, I wanted Stag- Nice Stag!

4, Bolsters we flipped back e-mails a wee bit- I wanted to give Evan a bit of freedom - but Pinched? , although I did ask for the Bolster to be Rats Tailed.

5, Shield? NO Shield with Stag- I wanted the Stag to do all the Talking for me.
Here are some VERY poor quality rushed flicks with another Evan Hybrid TC, I really love both of these Knives.
I am STOKED with Evans Custom that he did for me- it's perfect to what I wanted!.

Evans Hafting of the Stag on the Custom is quite well executed, the Early English and German Knives at times had extremely thin Stag at the edges where the Stag meets Liner, Not everywhere- is it so so thin - but overall- VERY nice job, I am not sure if Evan set out to replicate such work- and to be honest I didnt ask for that, Texture of Stag at times you need to accept things- I dont feel that when I look at this Knife- I just smile- no having to accept anything about this Knife- at all.

Lovely knives, but just Lambsfoot knives here please, unless other knives are being discussed in relation to them. The other Lambsfoot thread ended up crammed full of Sheepsfoot pics, and I'm anxious that this thread doesn't go the same way

 

[Campbellclanman]

Thats ok Jack -no problems at all, sometimes I relate the Sheepsfoot and the Lambsfoot too closely, hence me asking my friend.
Must have that dig around in my Sheffield Boxes

 

[Jack Black]

Thats ok Jack -no problems at all, sometimes I relate the Sheepsfoot and the Lambsfoot too closely, hence me asking my friend.
Must have that dig around in my Sheffield Boxes

You're not alone in that my friend, thanks for understanding You have sent a few excellent examples my way over the years, so I hope you still have a few nice ones yourself