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.
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That makes sense.
You are in for a great evening, that is a great mix of recordings that you have made. The whole story of the Spitfire is interesting, my interest started with an Airfix kit as a kid.
I think I will enjoy it. I’ve not checked the price lately on Amazon. I’m sure it probably fluctuates. Thanks for the compliment. Charlie’s Jigged Bone models are really special!Unless we luck on a nice vintage example there’s nothing to be had in bone for us Lambsfoot lovers!
You're right about that my friend, I'm glad Charlie was able to get some made in bone. Even though the jigging is not of the pattern he actually wanted, it is some of GEC's very best I think Now available in our local Morrisons. Hendos. In Lancashire...
I was adding some Tabasco to my chilli earlier, and marveling about how it is popular throughout the world, even has a Royal Warrant, and is a generic name for hot sauce. Compare that to Henderson's (nobody calls it Hendos in Sheffield), which 20 years ago, you couldn't even get a few miles outside Sheffield! 
Now hump day. That's when it's downhill to the weekend isn't it.
I always regret missing the 'Bouncing Bomb' fly-pasts out at Ladybower (near Sheffield), I was always busy with something else, or if was cancelled for some reason 
I'll be off down to the market, and also meeting up with a pal for lunch 
Great insert of the Lancasters, thanks for posting.I hope so Ron, it's not really spicy, but it's very tasty
Thanks mate, I had a good DVD, but I've given it to my pal with the tool-stall. I've seen quite a few over the years
LOL!
Cheers David, that does look good
That must have been a treat
I mentioned my former brother-in-law's dad, Jack, who flew Spitfires and Hurricanes, and probably a lot of other stuff, the other day. Jack regularly carried the pistol he'd been issued, even though he wasn't supposed to, but eventually handed it in to the police in a firearms amnesty in about 1990 (such a shame). I never saw the gun, so I hadn't realised it was a Smith & Wesson automatic (no idea what model), which rather surprised me, when he told me. Jack explained that it had been issued to him in the USA, where he had done some of his flight training
My big day tomorrow
I guess they hid the meat under the cheeze?Cheese on Toast for lunch, with a good splash of Henderson's of course
I learned that in Boy Scouts.
Good Wed afternoon, ya skallywags.
I thought I’d dump some photos of my TEW Big LF since it’s in my pocket.
Being a man of modest means, and inherited Scottish thrift, I have had a little luck finding a few high quality, above my pay grade, pocket knives by looking for flaws that make a lot of folks pass them over. As long as the blade(s) are mostly still there, I’m not afraid of trying to fix them.
I found this on the auction site for, if I recall, about $15. It was a bargain because one of the gumfuddy scales was cracked through. Here are some shots of it when I got it-View attachment 1420091View attachment 1420092 View attachment 1420093View attachment 1420094 I had a knife sized piece of fiddleback black walnut from a well-known mill in Warsaw Missouri famous for gunstocks. This piece sat in a toolbox of mine for nearly 40 years until I remembered it.
No action shots of the surgery, but it came apart and went back together ok for a hack like me. Smoothed the spring and contact parts of the tang. Put in new pins, and prayed it fit correctly. Well, it still snaps with authority, and it’s nice and smooth both ways. The only regret I have is that I somehow ended up with a small gap between the walnut and bolsters. That’s harder than it looks, and is why the modders on here, who work on other people’s expensive knives get my highest respect.
After-View attachment 1420095View attachment 1420096 And here she is a couple of years later-View attachment 1420097I like this knife
Interesting to see how that blade has turned out, but the non-Lambsfoot content in the photo needs to be edited for it to be acceptable in this thread. I've edited it (above). If you could substitute that pic for the original, it'd be appreciated. Thanks
Cheese on Toast for lunch, with a good splash of Henderson's of course
Thanks Barrett.
That mustard beer ....... I don't know about that one.
Mate, Mate you are being a bit hard on yourself.
. Lucky we are all open minded here, i doubt if that is PC.. But that was good shopping with that fine Lambsfoot, and you did a great job with the remodeling, good work you should be proud of the end result..
Good Wed afternoon, ya skallywags.
I thought I’d dump some photos of my TEW Big LF since it’s in my pocket.
Being a man of modest means, and inherited Scottish thrift, I have had a little luck finding a few high quality, above my pay grade, pocket knives by looking for flaws that make a lot of folks pass them over. As long as the blade(s) are mostly still there, I’m not afraid of trying to fix them.
I found this on the auction site for, if I recall, about $15. It was a bargain because one of the gumfuddy scales was cracked through. Here are some shots of it when I got it-View attachment 1420091View attachment 1420092 View attachment 1420093View attachment 1420094 I had a knife sized piece of fiddleback black walnut from a well-known mill in Warsaw Missouri famous for gunstocks. This piece sat in a toolbox of mine for nearly 40 years until I remembered it.
No action shots of the surgery, but it came apart and went back together ok for a hack like me. Smoothed the spring and contact parts of the tang. Put in new pins, and prayed it fit correctly. Well, it still snaps with authority, and it’s nice and smooth both ways. The only regret I have is that I somehow ended up with a small gap between the walnut and bolsters. That’s harder than it looks, and is why the modders on here, who work on other people’s expensive knives get my highest respect.
After-View attachment 1420095View attachment 1420096 And here she is a couple of years later-View attachment 1420097I like this knife
I guess they hid the meat under the cheeze?
I think that edge is straighter than my first A. Wright Lambsfoot.
Looks good, Jack!
Wikipedia used to have a whole paragraph devoted to the "Hendo's Controversy", saying something along the lines that the black gold was known in Sheffield as Henerson's, 'Enderson's, or simply 'Relish', and that the latterly invented term 'Hendo's was not heard in the city (outside the Students' Union refectory perhaps). It went on to say that this was a form of speech more commonly associated with North-West England rather than South Yorkshire (where if a name is abbreviated, it might have an 'i' or 'y' added, but not an 'o'). 
No, as Wikipedia used to say, it's 'Henerson's, 'Enderson's, or Relish'. We never had these problems when nobody had heard of the stuff! Have a good day everyone 
Mate, Mate you are being a bit hard on yourself.
PS - Good choice of wood, i do love walnut.
They say the same thing about Yorkshiremen being shy with their wallets. A common expression in Yorkshire is 'He's not mean, he's careful'
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Pests.We never had these problems when nobody had heard of the stuff!
