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Guardians of The Lambsfoot!
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LOL!
Agreed! They seem to wear in for a bit, but settle down to "just right."The stout A Wright springs are right on I think.(with the exception of the pull on my secondary
before I adjusted it).
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I love carrying this Knife- I always carry two knives with me- and this girl has done some yards I can tell you! the First time I sharpened the Knife- it wasnt so great- but this isnt the Knife- I go through stages of this- so I just put the knife down and came back to it- bang! Scary Sharp! ( terrible Phone Camera shots Im sorry everyone ).
I think this falls under the Lambs-foot category...I hope so anyway....
This is a Sheffield Wade & Butcher Friction Folder - sporting the good ol' Lambs foot Blade- Called a Sheldon Knife- Jack you would have seen these?
kinda cool- very basic- but very versatile!
Very light, plain plastic Handles....
I think this falls under the Lambs-foot category...I hope so anyway....
This is a Sheffield Wade & Butcher Friction Folder - sporting the good ol' Lambs foot Blade- Called a Sheldon Knife- Jack you would have seen these?
kinda cool- very basic- but very versatile!
Very light, plain plastic Handles....
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I can remember using Half Crowns, and still see Crowns, but the only time I see Sovereigns is on rather tacky rings!
I have given my granddaughter a few old Hong Kong coins 
The pull scale conversion chart! Hehe, ooh I like that one.
The stout A Wright springs are right on I think.
Michael
I love the stout springs, but on the secondary pen they are just brutal!
I love carrying this Knife- I always carry two knives with me- and this girl has done some yards I can tell you! the First time I sharpened the Knife- it wasnt so great- but this isnt the Knife- I go through stages of this- so I just put the knife down and came back to it- bang! Scary Sharp! ( terrible Phone Camera shots Im sorry everyone ).
I think this falls under the Lambs-foot category...I hope so anyway....
This is a Sheffield Wade & Butcher Friction Folder - sporting the good ol' Lambs foot Blade- Called a Sheldon Knife- Jack you would have seen these?
kinda cool- very basic- but very versatile!
Very light, plain plastic Handles....
Nice to see that your Guardians knife has been getting so much use Duncan
That's an unusual Sheldon Knife you have there, the once common pattern are rare these days, and I do not recall having seen one with a Lambsfoot blade before, fascinating. I discussed the pattern in this thread here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/two-unusual-sheffield-patterns.1483990/ As you can see though, the examples I posted there, including a Wade & Butcher, have a different blade shape. Thanks for sharing that one with us my friend 
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Carrying some stag today
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Jack
Thank you for that
It looks as though it may have started as a Hawkbill type of blade and taken down?
Thank you for that
It looks as though it may have started as a Hawkbill type of blade and taken down?
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This second landed today from oakedge, the slip case was f.o.c.I can see no major faults,I’ve had a few firsts from other makers pass thro my hands that weren’t this good.Im going to give the scales a couple of coats of danish oil,flush the joint and run the KME over it.All in all very pleased,might have to get a different model now
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Do you think so Duncan (you are best placed to judge)? That was my initial thought when I saw your photo, but it does look like a Lambsfoot blade
View attachment 852506 View attachment 852507 View attachment 852508 This second landed today from oakedge, the slip case was f.o.c.I can see no major faults,I’ve had a few firsts from other makers pass thro my hands that weren’t this good.Im going to give the scales a couple of coats of danish oil,flush the joint and run the KME over it.All in all very pleased,might have to get a different model now
Free slip case is a nice touch, and that's a decent-looking Lambsfoot my friend
Very nice indeed! Thanks for showing what a second is like, I think I may need to try a second as well. I agree that I have seen "firsts" that were not as nice as your "second!"View attachment 852506 View attachment 852507 View attachment 852508 This second landed today from oakedge, the slip case was f.o.c.I can see no major faults,I’ve had a few firsts from other makers pass thro my hands that weren’t this good.Im going to give the scales a couple of coats of danish oil,flush the joint and run the KME over it.All in all very pleased,might have to get a different model now
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I carried out a clean and sharpen,gone straight into my pocket.
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Hope you get it back soon my friend
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Appreciate all the follow info and links, very interesting stuff. I will admit that I was unfimilar with the British Penny when the ring was first posted, but I’m up to speed now. The only ring I’ve ever worn is my wedding ring and even that’s rarely worn out of fear of having my finger de gloved while working
After seeing it happen to multiple guys it was an easy decision and one the wife understood.Very nice pictures everyone! I’ve really been enjoying the daily postings of both old and new knives alike. Hope everyone is having a great work week-
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I was talking to one of my neighbours earlier, and trying to explain why knife enthusiasts like ourselves are willing to spend so much money on a custom knife. During the course of the conversation, I picked up my Guardians Lambsfoot, saying 'This is a handmade knife, but it was made in a factory, and to a price, so while I think it's very nice, it will have flaws'. When he asked for an example, I held it up to the light, so that I could show him a crack of light shining through the springs, but there wasn't any light at all. Feeling slightly foolish, I felt at the springs, but they're perfect, open or closed. I just had to get him to take my word for it in the end! 
Not custom quality, but they did do a pretty good job of that one!
Not custom quality, but they did do a pretty good job of that one! 
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I hope you don't mind waiting. I've been regularly using this chap for about 12 years now and and it's still "wearing in"
Stonebeard may I ask where that stunning mountain range is?
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Appreciate all the follow info and links, very interesting stuff. I will admit that I was unfimilar with the British Penny when the ring was first posted, but I’m up to speed now. The only ring I’ve ever worn is my wedding ring and even that’s rarely worn out of fear of having my finger de gloved while working
Very nice pictures everyone! I’ve really been enjoying the daily postings of both old and new knives alike. Hope everyone is having a great work week-
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Great pics my friend
My dad rarely wore his wedding ring for the same reason. He worked in a big engineering firm when I was a kid, (after leaving Richards), James Neill Tools, who specialised in blue Eclipse hacksaw blades and industrial magnets, among other things. They were the biggest small tool manufacturer in the world, at the time, outside the US. My dad would keep his wedding ring in the button-down pocket on the left breast of his coveralls (called a 'boiler suit' here). I remember seeing it, it looked like what I think of as a signet ring really. Anyway, one day he lost the ring, and obviously my mother noticed, and words were said. My parents rarely said a cross word in front of me and my younger brother and sister, but my mother definitely wasn't happy. My dad said he was going to put a note up on the work's notice board offering a reward of £5, which was quite a lot of money in the 1960's, and a good deal more than the ring was worth as scrap or in a pawn-shop. My dad and my uncle, who worked with him at the time, and his work-mates, searched all over for the ring, but they never found it, and nobody handed it in. Obviously, losing it was an accident, but the subject would occasionally come up between my parents over the next couple of years. My dad never replaced the ring.
We were poor when I was a kid, and we didn't go away on holiday every year. When we did, it was to the seaside, and usually to a place called Bridlington, which is sort of on the tip of the nose on the 'man's face' on the north east coast of England, f you know what it looks like. Because the furnaces in the steel works had to be allowed to cool down gradually, many Sheffield workers took their holidays at the same time, the last week in July, and the first week in August. These were known as the 'Works Weeks', though I think they are more correctly called 'Wakes Weeks', which is an older term, which probably has nothing to do with the steel industry. During these two weeks, Bridlington, one of the nearest coastal resorts to Sheffield became a sort of Sheffield-on-Sea. Even the local daily Sheffield newspapers would be shipped to Bridlington. Walking along the sea-front, my dad would constantly be saying hello to blokes he worked with. As a kid I just thought he knew a lot of people!
One day, we went down to the beach. Me and my sister and brother would paddle, and look for crabs in the rock-pools. It was a hot sunny day, the kind that goes on forever when you're a kid. I remember we watched a bloke trying to get onto an inflatable 'lilo' in the surf, for what seemed like hours. Every time he got on, he'd fall off, much to our amusement.
We stayed on the beach much later than usual, only retreating when the tide was right up the sand, walking up the hill, prickly with sunburn, and hungry for our evening meal. Usually, we ate at our accommodation, with mum doing the cooking, but as it was late, and we were on holiday, on this occasion, dad said that we could have fish and chips. Us kids had fishcakes, which is like fish and potato, and less expensive than fish, and my mum had cod roe, which she was rather partial to. My dad was going to have cod and chips, but we were so late that they had run out of cod, so he asked for a meat pie.
We got the food wrapped up, with lots of salt and vinegar on the chips for us kids, and walked back along the sea-front. Finding a bench on the promenade, not far from where we had spent the day, we sat down to eat our meal. Mum doled it all out on the newspaper it had been wrapped up in, which was how things were served back here in the sixties. We were tucking into our chips, and my dad took a bite of his pie, and you'll never guess what was inside...
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I hope you don't mind waiting. I've been regularly using this chap for about 12 years now and and it's still "wearing in"
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Great pics my friend
My dad rarely wore his wedding ring for the same reason. He worked in a big engineering firm when I was a kid, (after leaving Richards), James Neill Tools, who specialised in blue Eclipse hacksaw blades and industrial magnets, among other things. They were the biggest small tool manufacturer in the world, at the time, outside the US. My dad would keep his wedding ring in the button-down pocket on the left breast of his coveralls (called a 'boiler suit' here). I remember seeing it, it looked like what I think of as a signet ring really. Anyway, one day he lost the ring, and obviously my mother noticed, and words were said. My parents rarely said a cross word in front of me and my younger brother and sister, but my mother definitely wasn't happy. My dad said he was going to put a note up on the work's notice board offering a reward of £5, which was quite a lot of money in the 1960's, and a good deal more than the ring was worth as scrap or in a pawn-shop. My dad and my uncle, who worked with him at the time, and his work-mates, searched all over for the ring, but they never found it, and nobody handed it in. Obviously, losing it was an accident, but the subject would occasionally come up between my parents over the next couple of years. My dad never replaced the ring.
We were poor when I was a kid, and we didn't go away on holiday every year. When we did, it was to the seaside, and usually to a place called Bridlington, which is sort of on the tip of the nose on the 'man's face' on the north east coast of England, f you know what it looks like. Because the furnaces in the steel works had to be allowed to cool down gradually, many Sheffield workers took their holidays at the same time, the last week in July, and the first week in August. These were known as the 'Works Weeks', though I think they are more correctly called 'Wakes Weeks', which is an older term, which probably has nothing to do with the steel industry. During these two weeks, Bridlington, one of the nearest coastal resorts to Sheffield became a sort of Sheffield-on-Sea. Even the local daily Sheffield newspapers would be shipped to Bridlington. Walking along the sea-front, my dad would constantly be saying hello to blokes he worked with. As a kid I just thought he knew a lot of people!
One day, we went down to the beach. Me and my sister and brother would paddle, and look for crabs in the rock-pools. It was a hot sunny day, the kind that goes on forever when you're a kid. I remember we watched a bloke trying to get onto an inflatable 'lilo' in the surf, for what seemed like hours. Every time he got on, he'd fall off, much to our amusement.
We stayed on the beach much later than usual, only retreating when the tide was right up the sand, walking up the hill, prickly with sunburn, and hungry for our evening meal. Usually, we ate at our accommodation, with mum doing the cooking, but as it was late, and we were on holiday, on this occasion, dad said that we could have fish and chips. Us kids had fishcakes, which is like fish and potato, and less expensive than fish, and my mum had cod roe, which she was rather partial to. My dad was going to have cod and chips, but we were so late that they had run out of cod, so he asked for a meat pie.
We got the food wrapped up, with lots of salt and vinegar on the chips for us kids, and walked back along the sea-front. Finding a bench on the promenade, not far from where we had spent the day, we sat down to eat our meal. Mum doled it all out on the newspaper it had been wrapped up in, which was how things were served back here in the sixties. We were tucking into our chips, and my dad took a bite of his pie, and you'll never guess what was inside...
Jack what a fantastic story!
You've got to tell us, did you ever solve the mystery of the Brid' meat pie?? I don't know what side o'th Pennines the term originated, but the Lancashire cotton mills also had "Wakes Weeks". Between June and September the mill towns would rotate; shutting down for a week to allow annual maintenence to be performed on the weaving gear.
I believe the tradition started to die out in the 1960's even though some mills operated into the late 70's.
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Jack what a fantastic story!
I don't know what side o'th Pennines the term originated, but the Lancashire cotton mills also had "Wakes Weeks". Between June and September the mill towns would rotate; shutting down for a week to allow annual maintenence to be performed on the weaving gear.
I believe the tradition started to die out in the 1960's even though some mills operated into the late 70's.
Thanks Donn
Oh, the pie, the pie had steak and kidney in 
Tradition goes back a fair way apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakes_week
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Thanks Donn
Tradition goes back a fair way apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakes_week
LOL! You had me there
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