Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Jack Black]

Nice to hear other people are still using neat's-foot oil on leather. Some people claim it dissolves leather, though the can says it preserves leather. I've never found it to dissolve leather.

Really? I've not had any problems with it either, though it does soften leather, which is not always what you want with walking boots

 

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I think someone on the forums has said that, and when I told a non-member dealer that I was going to dip the sheath of my incoming knife in NFO, he said "hold thy desperate hand!", or words to that effect.

[Edited to make my reference more obscure, in case I'm maligning the guy. It is a long time since I bought that knife.]

Lambsfoot content. That black one I've been fooling with needs a little rounding, I see.

 

[Jack Black]

I think someone on the forums has said that, and when I told a non-member dealer in scandinavian knives that I was going to dip the sheath of my incoming puukko in NFO, he said "hold thy desperate hand!", or words to that effect.

LOL!

 

[gonebad395]

I've never used neats foot oil but I did post earlier that the coconut oil worked great on the leather softened it right up and smells good too. And r8shell that picture you posted the top knife I really like,I bet it's very comfortable to use. I'm going to look it up later. Also the patina you have going is great working on mine as I type cutting a apple.

 

[Jack Black]

I've never used neats foot oil but I did post earlier that the coconut oil worked great on the leather softened it right up and smells good too. And r8shell that picture you posted the top knife I really like,I bet it's very comfortable to use. I'm going to look it up later.

There's a whole Ettrick thread Keith - https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/what-is-the-definition-of-ettrick.1119303/ (posting the link because the new BF Seach function is so useless!)

 

[gonebad395]

Thanks jack looks like I'll be reading tonight

There's a whole Ettrick thread Keith - https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/what-is-the-definition-of-ettrick.1119303/ (posting the link because the new BF Seach function is so useless!)

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks jack looks like I'll be reading tonight

I hope it's a good read!

 

[Pàdruig]

Nice to hear other people are still using neat's-foot oil on leather. Some people claim it dissolves leather, though the can says it preserves leather. I've never found it to dissolve leather.

That is so strange... Considering that neatsfoot oil is still sold in leather shops and is recommended for the conditioning and preservation of leather, I find it rather bizarre that someone would claim it dissolves leather...

Rest assured though, it does no such thing, I've been using it for many years on sheaths, holsters, belts, bags, boots, etc. It is readily available and effective!

(Lambsfoot content, I snapped a pic on lunch today)

 

[Jack Black]

That is so strange... Considering that neatsfoot oil is still sold in leather shops and is recommended for the conditioning and preservation of leather, I find it rather bizarre that someone would claim it dissolves leather...

Rest assured though, it does no such thing, I've been using it for many years on sheaths, holsters, belts, bags, boots, etc. It is readily available and effective!

(Lambsfoot content, I snapped a pic on lunch today)

Yeah, I also know people who've been using it for decades. Come to think of it, I have!

Very cool pic Dylan, some nice colour to that horn

Hey, do you take your lunch-breaks in the Emerald Forest?!

 

[Jack Black]

 

[Pàdruig]

Yeah, I also know people who've been using it for decades. Come to think of it, I have!

Very cool pic Dylan, some nice colour to that horn

Hey, do you take your lunch-breaks in the Emerald Forest?!

Thanks, Jack!

As nice as that would be to dine in such a place, I am afraid it is nothing but my back yard. I do have a lovely maple and plum tree in the immediate vicinity, surrounded by some evergreens. The stone is one of a few chunks of Serpentine that I picked up on a hike some time ago. It really is a beautiful rock, lots of color and variance, with a bit of luster to it, even when dry.

 

[r8shell]

And r8shell that picture you posted the top knife I really like,I bet it's very comfortable to use. I'm going to look it up later. Also the patina you have going is great working on mine as I type cutting a apple.

There's a whole Ettrick thread Keith - https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/what-is-the-definition-of-ettrick.1119303/ (posting the link because the new BF Seach function is so useless!)

Thanks for finding the link, Jack. Enjoy reading, Keith. I just went and fixed a few picture links since, like many older threads, some pictures are missing.

Hmm...since I have an Ettrick and a Lambfoot, I'm thinking I need to find a Tackler for the Sheffield Trifecta.

 

[5K Qs]

Not at all, GT! I use neatsfoot oil on all of my leather stuff, including regular application on my boots. The Guardians Slips received a couple of coats of the stuff before being shipped out. But being that it is vegetable tanned leather, with the drying effects that dyes have on it, it is certainly prudent to keep it well treated with oil. Regular use and the occasional oiling will keep that slip in good condition for a lifetime.

Thanks for the reassurance, Dylan! My dad taught me to use neatsfoot oil on my first baseball glove, and we also used it on horse tack after we got a saddle horse for a while, and then eventually traded for a little pony with cart and leather harness. I occasionally have used it on leather boots, too, although back on the farm when I was a kid, we were more likely to treat our work boots with mutton tallow each year when winter arrived.

LOL! It wasn't quite a traditional English breakfast my friend You guessed right enough though, the potato cake thing was a rosti I'm not sure why they've started putting baked beans in pots here, I had another breakfast today where they did the same Great-looking pic there my friend, I can't wait to get my Guardians pocket-slip



Thanks for the tip Dylan, I've used neatsfoot oil in the past

Just throwing in a gratuitous Lambsfoot pic

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Your Guardian Lambsfoot gets plenty of photos with your "signature" watery backgrounds, Jack! Glad to hear you throw your support behind neatsfoot oil, too! And thanks for the breakfast info; makes me feel like quite a problem solver to have some of my hypotheses verified.

Nice to hear other people are still using neat's-foot oil on leather. Some people claim it dissolves leather, though the can says it preserves leather. I've never found it to dissolve leather.

I think someone on the forums has said that, and when I told a non-member dealer that I was going to dip the sheath of my incoming knife in NFO, he said "hold thy desperate hand!", or words to that effect.
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Thanks for your neatsfoot oil support, Jer!

Lambsfoot content. That black one I've been fooling with needs a little rounding, I see.

Wow, Jer, I like that quartet of lambsfoot knives you've gathered!!

That is so strange... Considering that neatsfoot oil is still sold in leather shops and is recommended for the conditioning and preservation of leather, I find it rather bizarre that someone would claim it dissolves leather...

Rest assured though, it does no such thing, I've been using it for many years on sheaths, holsters, belts, bags, boots, etc. It is readily available and effective!

(Lambsfoot content, I snapped a pic on lunch today)

Knife on Fire!!

Yeah, I also know people who've been using it for decades. Come to think of it, I have!
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I think I first used it on a ball glove I got for Christmas in 1958, and last used it on Sunday!

Obligatory pic showing how deeply the coloration is imbedded in the horn:

- GT

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Reporting for duty as summoned in the other thread Jack Black

It's so great how this thread has kept going, and going, and going, and going...

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks for finding the link, Jack. Enjoy reading, Keith. I just went and fixed a few picture links since, like many older threads, some pictures are missing.

Hmm...since I have an Ettrick and a Lambfoot, I'm thinking I need to find a Tackler for the Sheffield Trifecta.

Nice work r8shell LOL!

Your Guardian Lambsfoot gets plenty of photos with your "signature" watery backgrounds, Jack! Glad to hear you throw your support behind neatsfoot oil, too! And thanks for the breakfast info; makes me feel like quite a problem solver to have some of my hypotheses verified.

We do have a lot of wet spots here my friend! I mainly used it on boots GT, but was seduced away by a gifted pot of a homemade mixture of beeswax and lanolin You could certainly be a detective my friend

I think I first used it on a ball glove I got for Christmas in 1958, and last used it on Sunday!

Obligatory pic showing how deeply the coloration is imbedded in the horn:

- GT

That's pretty cool my friend Cool pic too, and a first from that angle I think

Reporting for duty as summoned in the other thread Jack Black

It's so great how this thread has kept going, and going, and going, and going...

Great to see you here Mike, I was only lamenting your absence the other day Good to see your Lambsfoot knives looking in sterling condition

 

[Jack Black]

Very interesting knife posted here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/old-knives.527126/page-651#post-17588744

I'm hoping the discussion moves over here

 

[Cambertree]

A really excellent post my friend, a pleasure to read I was also minded of discussions I've read on the reasons for the devastating cutting/shearing power of the Kukri - and the French guillotine!

Thanks my friend, just a lucky break really Wright's had got hold of a very small amount of Sambar, so I grabbed what I could! Here's the pile side of that one
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Thanks Jack, yeah the Kukri, and the guillotine are perfect examples of the cutting tool design principle I was trying to illustrate.

I think I spotted a smaller pile of what appears to be Sambar antler next to the big stack of strange shaped Pere David antlers in the pic you posted earlier of the A. Wright stag cellar.

Thanks for your kind words about my posts, knives, and knife names, Chin; I look forward to hearing what Norse name you've dreamed up! I certainly admire your ebony lambsfoot (is that the prodigal that returned?), and I'm a sucker for lambsfoot pics with actual lambs/sheep in the background!!

Chin, I'm glad I could be of assistance in your developing perspectives on your Guardian Lambsfoot. I also enjoyed your ruminations on visual vs functional beauty, so to speak.

Thanks GT, I'll have to try the name out in my head a bit first to see if it works. I find I think of my ebony Lambsfoot in my mind just as 'Mah Knife'. As in, reciting when getting dressed in the morning: 'Keys, wallet, phone, torch and mah knife'! No disrespect intended to any of my other knives, of course, but that's just how it is.

Very impressive Clamsfoot knife you have there, Chin!

Absolutely fascinating post, Chin; helpful pics and intriguing speculations!

LOL…and thanks, GT!

Thank you for the illustrative pictures and ruminations re: canted blades. I was inspired to examine and photograph a comparison of my new guardian lambfoot with an Ettrick I received from @WhittlinAway last spring. If I'm being honest, I think the Ettrick would be more aesthetically pleasing if it were not canted, with the graceful s-curve this pattern is known for. Yet, in use both blades are very effective and the Ettrick is especially well suited to draw cuts. (whittlinaway did an excellent job thinning out the primary grind, and this is my favorite knife for craft projects involving cutting leather. Much easier on the wrist and so much classier than an x-acto)
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Cheers, r8shell - I'm always interested to hear your thoughts on traditional patterns given you use them for craft work as well as the more usual EDC chores. I carried the Ettrick for a bit, it's a very cool knife to whip out to use, when EDCing it, but I'm convinced one of the ways it may also be designed to use is in a kind of reverse grip, with the edge facing the user. It used to be reasonably common, I remember when I was a kid, to see adults peeling and slicing up their lunchtime apples using this hold.

I think someone on the forums has said that, and when I told a non-member dealer that I was going to dip the sheath of my incoming knife in NFO, he said "hold thy desperate hand!", or words to that effect.

[Edited to make my reference more obscure, in case I'm maligning the guy. It is a long time since I bought that knife.]

Lambsfoot content. That black one I've been fooling with needs a little rounding, I see.

Yep, I agree, that truncated TEW at bottom, could use a little bit more of a nose job, Jer.

Great looking quartet, though.

I've never used neats foot oil but I did post earlier that the coconut oil worked great on the leather softened it right up and smells good too. And r8shell that picture you posted the top knife I really like,I bet it's very comfortable to use. I'm going to look it up later. Also the patina you have going is great working on mine as I type cutting a apple.

Thanks, Keith, I got some coconut oil. I was also interested to see when reading up on it, that like Jojoba oil, it doesn't go rancid over time. Smells nice too, as you say, and seems to be good for the skin as well.

That is so strange... Considering that neatsfoot oil is still sold in leather shops and is recommended for the conditioning and preservation of leather, I find it rather bizarre that someone would claim it dissolves leather...

Rest assured though, it does no such thing, I've been using it for many years on sheaths, holsters, belts, bags, boots, etc. It is readily available and effective!

Great pic, as always, Dylan. I wonder if that comment about neatsfoot oil, was about the stuff adulterated with mineral oil. I use an old, well established Australian product called Dubbin, which works well, although it darkens the leather a bit, like neatsfoot oil.

Nice piece of serpentinite as well. I have a few pieces I picked up too from a very isolated old Chromite mine up in the Victorian High Country I hunt in, which was prospected between the world wars from memory, but never developed further, as it would have been a major operation to get anything in or out of the area.

Reporting for duty as summoned in the other thread Jack Black

It's so great how this thread has kept going, and going, and going, and going...

Good to see you back. Hmmm, but no blade patina? What's the story?

Very interesting knife posted here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/old-knives.527126/page-651#post-17588744

I'm hoping the discussion moves over here

Wow, that knife is a really lucky find, never seen that blade configuration before. Presses all the buttons for me, come to think of it!
Definitely looking forward to seeing more of that one over here @rockman0.

 

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Wow, Jer, I like that quartet of lambsfoot knives you've gathered!!

Thanks. I like the extra sway on the reddish wooden one Jack sent me (no name on it, but whoever it was got it right). I consider that one less of a beater than the 2-blade Wright I was forced to transmogrify.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack, yeah the Kukri, and the guillotine are perfect examples of the cutting tool design principle I was trying to illustrate.

I think I spotted a smaller pile of what appears to be Sambar antler next to the big stack of strange shaped Pere David antlers in the pic you posted earlier of the A. Wright stag cellar.

Well spotted my friend, does this pic make it any clearer (unfortunately, it was a dimly-lit cellar)?



Couple of other pics I took at the same time

Thanks GT, I'll have to try the name out in my head a bit first to see if it works. I find I think of my ebony Lambsfoot in my mind just as 'Mah Knife'. As in, reciting when getting dressed in the morning: 'Keys, wallet, phone, torch and mah knife'! No disrespect intended to any of my other knives, of course, but that's just how it is.

I reckon it's OK to have favourites...just don't tell the other knives!

Wow, that knife is a really lucky find, never seen that blade configuration before. Presses all the buttons for me, come to think of it!
Definitely looking forward to seeing more of that one over here @rockman0.

I thought you'd find it interesting my friend Cool pic of yuh knife!

Thanks. I like the extra sway on the reddish wooden one Jack sent me (no name on it, but whoever it was got it right). I consider that one less of a beater than the 2-blade Wright I was forced to transmogrify.

I haven't seen those on sale anywhere for a while, but everyone I ever gifted one to said they were really pleased with it



I am going to have to get round to buying another rosewood Lambsfoot sometime. I sent this one to Charlie C when I was a newish poster here

 

[Jack Black]

My Guardians Lambsfoot has just helped me open an incredible (and extremely well-wrapped) package of vintage treasures from my good friend @herder