Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

Great discussion on filework. I find I like looking at filework on other peoples knives, and it gives some interesting 'tells' about the maker. But it's not so often I see filework that seems to have that real unified flow to it. That's the kind of filework I'd like on a knife of my own. For a user, I'm afraid I'd be thinking of grit particles resting in those recesses too.

It is a bit of a leap of logic to go from a design rooted in the pure practicality of a tool and embellish it. I have carried the Oakedge second workback knife quite a bit recently and have put it to a fair amount of use just to see if it would be getting more gritty than other knives, but it has not done so. I admit I would not have carried and used it nearly it as much if it were not a second. Oakedge does provide a pocket pouch that fully encloses the knife, even with the seconds, but I don't use it much as it adds bulk.

I do think here in Texas work back or engraved knives fit in better culturally than in most other places, as a bit of a throw back to the wild west, like fancy stitched boots or engraved 1873 or 1911 Colts in tooled leather holsters. The desire for fancy work gear probably originates from the fusion of the embellished metal work of the Mexican Vaquero with imagination of showman Buffalo Bill Cody, and culminates with the fanciful Bowie knives of Sheffield.

Now, if I were to be working in the mud and muck trimming lamb hooves I sure would likely go with one of the stainless Newsome Silent Lamb Foot knives, or one of the plastic handled stainless TEWs like the one that Jack shows in the above post, and perhaps boiling after each use....
 
Wasn't sure where to put this one...'Hats and Blades'..'Blades and Bling'..'Just a Picture' (all great threads), so I thought I'd share it with my comrades in arms here. Start a new job tomorrow at a museum which celebrates the transport and industrial heritage of the South of England. Really looking forward to getting started, following a long and sometimes difficult period of unemployment, and submerging myself in the history of the region. Good to go! :):thumbsup:
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Wasn't sure where to put this one...'Hats and Blades'..'Blades and Bling'..'Just a Picture' (all great threads), so I thought I'd share it with my comrades in arms here. Start a new job tomorrow at a museum which celebrates the transport and industrial heritage of the South of England. Really looking forward to getting started, following a long and sometimes difficult period of unemployment, and submerging myself in the history of the region. Good to go! :):thumbsup:
Untitled by Blake Blade, on Flickr
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Fantastic pic Blake :) Great news on the job my friend, sounds fantastic. Good luck :thumbsup:
 
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