I'll drink to that!
Great post, Chin, as usual.
I appreciate the time and effort you put into your posts. Very enjoyable.
Cambertree
It’s always a treat to travel through your posts, Chin. Lacking your eloquence, let me just say thank you. Congratulations on getting your Handsome Barlow.
As always Chin, a fantastic post. Awesomeness in your new barlow my friend!
Cambertree
- great write up and thanks for the pics
Thanks very much Dave, Vince, John, Harvey, Dwight and OG - you’re all most kind, and I appreciate your gracious words a lot.
This is such a great group to hang out with.
Chin, you're so international! Browning, Zeiss and A.Wright's in the same photo (and a beautiful one, at that!).
Thanks Jeff, you have a good eye, my friend.
Now you have me wondering how many different source countries I could cram into a pic along with my Lambsfoot knives! I should have thrown in some Austrian binos and German designed, Portuguese made glass (Leica rangefinder)!
By coincidence, I saw a copy of an English comic from the 1980's called
Crisis, which revived Dan Dare (and the Mekon)
Hi GT, "Dan Dare-Pilot of the Future" was a comic book hero from the 1950's sci-fi comic 'Eagle'. The Eagle ran from 1950 to 1969 and Dan Dare was it's main character until 1967...
The bust of Dan Dare, at the Atkinson Museum in Southport.
Cool stuff lads, I used to like reading
Crisis and the later
Revolver a lot, they were comics that were way ahead of their time in many ways.
Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes did an excellent
take on Dan Dare as a retiree, living on a military pension, and writing his memoirs in a Thatcheresque dystopian ‘future’. While the people of the north are starving, Dare is brought out of retirement to be the figurehead for the reelection campaign of Prime Minister ‘Gloria Monday’.
It's always a treat when you post Chin
That's great that you and
cudgee
were able to meet up, and that's a fascinating snippet of Lambsfoot history
I'm glad the package arrived mate
Of course, as soon as it was on its way, I started finding other things I meant to include
I'm glad you liked the coin and book though, and the Hartshead Barlow of course
Thank you for all your kind words. I must say, I think you got some particularly nice stag there
Fantastic pics
Thanks Jack, no worries my friend.
Yes I agree - the Sambar stag on all these Hartsheads is very fine, but I’m grateful to have scored an exceptionally nice one. The mark side has bold, deep linear grooves which remind me of GEC’s Horsecut Bone jigging pattern. The pile side has some great knobbly high spots, which will get even better over time with some pocket wear.
I lucked out, as being a southpaw, I like knives which have a good pile side, and this one certainly delivered in that respect. Another thing I look for on stag covers is some lighter spots, which will develop that lovely yellow buttery colour over time, and this one has that too.
I’m still happily CFing and CEing this knife, every spare minute!
All the time, money, effort and accumulated knowledge and wisdom you put into designing and getting these made is very much appreciated.
What a great write up Chin! There's some handsome looking knives in those pictures.
I was looking at that white stuff in the top photos and thinking "huh?" But of course it's your winter isn't it. And those Flatty Tails look delicious!
Cheers David.
Yes, I’m not really a knife collector, I just like examining and using historical working knives from different parts of the world, and trying to gain an understanding of different patterns and steels and hand tool evolution. The Lambsfoot knife must easily be the most represented single pattern in my ‘accumulation of edged tools’.
Yes it’s winter here mate - not winter as you know it of course, and certainly nothing like Dave and Will must take for granted.
I was hunting up around the 1000-1200 metre (3300-4000’) line in the High Country. A dusting of snow makes tracking sign much easier, of course. This was the only hunt I recall being on, that I’ve seen no fresh deer sign at all, despite that area usually being well populated with Sambar.
My hunting partner and I kept covering more ground, and finally came across some other hunters who told us that the area had had a hound crew working it over heavily all week.
Never mind, it’s always a pleasure just to be out in the bush at dawn, and the campfire conversation and cameraderie is always something to look forward to as well.
But that’s part of the gamble of hunting public land. It’ll be back to private property next time, for sure.
Congratulations Barry! And I’ve been admiring all those excellent photos you’ve been posting lately.
Well said mate and good on ya for supporting the forum. The Porch is truly a special place on the net, and the Guardians is a great corner of the Porch.
It appears the spring is thicker than the tang. (See below) Do any of you have a DIY remedy for this issue? 
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