Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

euroken said:
Jack Black Jack Black

This is the problem the thread...I get hungry every time you post food...they look great regardless of what time of day it is!!!
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Sorry Ken, here's a Lambsfoot to take your mind off the food! :D ;) :thumbsup:

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cudgee said:
Why does that not surprise me. :thumbsup:

I never claimed it to be technically ' wright '.🤣🤣🤣😍:thumbsup:.
PS. Have to get my protein in for the most important meal of the day.🤤😏
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LOL! :D I have often seen chips added to a 'Full English' though Leon :D ;) Enjoy your meal my friend :) :thumbsup:
 
Just been down to the Post office to collect my mail. Must be " Karma ", this was in the mail box, been waiting, with lockdown our delivery has been slow. With Jack Black Jack Black showing his new sharpener and this arrives. Found this online and was reasonably priced, 1 metre long and 1 inch wide, will fit a couple of 1 inch wide stone blanks i have and with some diamond spray should get some really sharp edges. It is a piece of really thin kangaroo leather and they do give great edges. :thumbsup: .

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Posting my entry for the Yorkshire GAW early as I will probably be once again taking a little solo boating adventure this long weekend.

So here it is :)

I finally had a chip butty which I think it may have taken me out of my ketosis state in my keto diet LOL :thumbsup: :D

I also gave a try to the famous British style fried fish :thumbsup:

For the batter I kept it rather simple.
I used white flour, baking soda, a bit of cornstarch and salt and spices to taste.
Instead of cold beer I used some VERY COLD Perrier fizzy water ( from France lol )
For fish I bought some very high quality wild caught Haddock from a fancy supermarket here that is not known to be cheap :)

The results were really good :thumbsup:
My parents that are visiting us as well as my wife and I enjoyed it very much.

Happy Yorkshire Day Jack and Guardians :)

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Thirsty for knowledge, fact and following a career instilled instinct to run research to ground and basically just out of curiosity as a pocket knife collector, I emailed the Sheffield Museums concerning a knife pattern name. For anyone else interested, below are screen grabs of exchanged emails. Sheffield Museums are no stranger to this thread. Jack has featured many of their facilities and some knife displays. They are an impressive lot to say the least, from the Head of Collections himself (who responded to my email), to officers, curators, researchers, staff, one and all. Indeed, very attentive and quite nice to correspond with.

However, there is no definitive answer provided. The facts and pattern name are just as I have observed stamped and etched on blades and just as Jack has stated that the accepted pattern name is (or at least may be) a regional colloquialism as it were, rather than what is visually found on knife blades and in manufacturers historical advertisements. Also as Jack has stated and I'll paraphrase I think ... people may call it a different pattern name in different places. At least as you will find, that is the final response I received. It's as though the manufacturers provided a knife pattern and named it something ... and the people took it and call it what they will.

Jack KNOWS the Sheffield Museums and perhaps even knows the people who responded to my email. Jack, maybe next time you're there, put a bug in their ear so next inquiry they will be able to provide a definitive pattern name.

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cudgee said:
Just been down to the Post office to collect my mail. Must be " Karma ", this was in the mail box, been waiting, with lockdown our delivery has been slow. With Jack Black Jack Black showing his new sharpener and this arrives. Found this online and was reasonably priced, 1 metre long and 1 inch wide, will fit a couple of 1 inch wide stone blanks i have and with some diamond spray should get some really sharp edges. It is a piece of really thin kangaroo leather and they do give great edges. :thumbsup: .

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Really nice mate :cool: I have a small strip of kangaroo leather Cambertree Cambertree sent me, which I keep meaning to put on a strop :thumbsup:
CelloDan said:
Posting my entry for the Yorkshire GAW early as I will probably be once again taking a little solo boating adventure this long weekend.

So here it is :)

I finally had a chip butty which I think it may have taken me out of my ketosis state in my keto diet LOL :thumbsup: :D

I also gave a try to the famous British style fried fish :thumbsup:

For the batter I kept it rather simple.
I used white flour, baking soda, a bit of cornstarch and salt and spices to taste.
Instead of cold beer I used some VERY COLD Perrier fizzy water ( from France lol )
For fish I bought some very high quality wild caught Haddock from a fancy supermarket here that is not known to be cheap :)

The results were really good :thumbsup:
My parents that are visiting us as well as my wife and I enjoyed it very much.

Happy Yorkshire Day Jack and Guardians :)

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Well done Dan :) Haddock, along with cod, is very traditional for fish and chips here. Great pics :cool: :thumbsup:
JohnDF said:
I took this photo on the road for you, Jack... York Nebraska.
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Thanks John :cool: Is that a water-tower? Safe travels my friend :) :thumbsup:
mitch4ging said:
Cool advertisement!!😎👍

The Ebony defending my honor at the Dr's!🤣
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Thanks Dennis, hope you're doing OK buddy :) :thumbsup:
cudgee said:
Jack Black Jack Black Empty your inbox. :thumbsup:
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Hope it's OK now Leon, it was supposed to be only 42% full, but I've added a bit more space :thumbsup:

Good morning Guardians, wet and miserable here today, and it looks like the weekend isn't going to be a great deal better. At least it will be cool enough to wear my flat-cap for Yorkshire Day! :D :rolleyes: With the weekend almost upon us, I'll declare the giveaway officially open, but take your time, and remember it isn't Yorkshire Day until Sunday ;) I hope everyone has had a good week, and that you have a great weekend. Thought I'd carry my Big Eb for Black Friday :D ;) :thumbsup:

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BrotherJim said:
Thirsty for knowledge, fact and following a career instilled instinct to run research to ground and basically just out of curiosity as a pocket knife collector, I emailed the Sheffield Museums concerning a knife pattern name. For anyone else interested, below are screen grabs of exchanged emails. Sheffield Museums are no stranger to this thread. Jack has featured many of their facilities and some knife displays. They are an impressive lot to say the least, from the Head of Collections himself (who responded to my email), to officers, curators, researchers, staff, one and all. Indeed, very attentive and quite nice to correspond with.

However, there is no definitive answer provided. The facts and pattern name are just as I have observed stamped and etched on blades and just as Jack has stated that the accepted pattern name is (or at least may be) a regional colloquialism as it were, rather than what is visually found on knife blades and in manufacturers historical advertisements. Also as Jack has stated and I'll paraphrase I think ... people may call it a different pattern name in different places. At least as you will find, that is the final response I received. It's as though the manufacturers provided a knife pattern and named it something ... and the people took it and call it what they will.

Jack KNOWS the Sheffield Museums and perhaps even knows the people who responded to my email. Jack, maybe next time you're there, put a bug in their ear so next inquiry they will be able to provide a definitive pattern name.

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Jim, I am VERY familiar with Sheffield Museums, and I think if you had any familiarity with them at all, you wouldn't have bothered to contact them about this. I've replied to your previous posts on this topic, and I'm afraid I really can't say anymore beyond my previous comments. I've been writing about knives professionally for 30 years, and I've spent a lot of time researching the Lambsfoot pattern, which nobody at Sheffield Museums has. I'm not sure why my opinion on the pattern apparently means nothing to you, but I don't think we have anything to "settle". As I've said before, if you want to call the Lambsfoot something else, that's your business, but this is the Lambsfoot thread, so if that's not acceptable to you, perhaps you'd like to start another thread, or post somewhere else.
 
BrotherJim said:
Thirsty for knowledge, fact and following a career instilled instinct to run research to ground and basically just out of curiosity as a pocket knife collector, I emailed the Sheffield Museums concerning a knife pattern name. For anyone else interested, below are screen grabs of exchanged emails. Sheffield Museums are no stranger to this thread. Jack has featured many of their facilities and some knife displays. They are an impressive lot to say the least, from the Head of Collections himself (who responded to my email), to officers, curators, researchers, staff, one and all. Indeed, very attentive and quite nice to correspond with.

However, there is no definitive answer provided. The facts and pattern name are just as I have observed stamped and etched on blades and just as Jack has stated that the accepted pattern name is (or at least may be) a regional colloquialism as it were, rather than what is visually found on knife blades and in manufacturers historical advertisements. Also as Jack has stated and I'll paraphrase I think ... people may call it a different pattern name in different places. At least as you will find, that is the final response I received. It's as though the manufacturers provided a knife pattern and named it something ... and the people took it and call it what they will.

Jack KNOWS the Sheffield Museums and perhaps even knows the people who responded to my email. Jack, maybe next time you're there, put a bug in their ear so next inquiry they will be able to provide a definitive pattern name.

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Great picture of some nice knives.
 
scrteened porch said:
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Not my most successful photographic effort.
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These past few days, I've been wondering if you'd got a new camera Jer :thumbsup:
JTB_5 said:
Carrying today! I’m hoping to get some pictures of a chicken butchering event that our neighbors and friends have invited us to watch/participate in this morning. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

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Not too gruesome I hope Joshua! :eek: Cool pile-side pic of your AC my friend :) :thumbsup:
 
I finally got a little time to try out the Worksharp Precision Adjust Knife Sharpener today. I've watched a bunch of videos about this system, but I should have noticed that the guys using it are sharpening large modern folders, kitchen knives, or fixed blades, rather than traditionals. If you've not seen this system around, here's one of Worksharp's instructional videos:


If you don't want to sit through that, you can probably get a good idea of how it's supposed to work from the image on the box:

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Basically you clamp the knife in place, set the angle you want the edge, and use one of the 3 abrasives, which slide along the rod to sharpen the edge, as shown in this illustration.

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With a large/wide blade, like the one below, that works fine, at 20 degrees.

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But with a smaller or slimmer blade, such as a Lambsfoot blade (or any number of other traditional patterns), the abrasive is actually taking metal off the jaws of the clamp, rather than the edge.

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I didn't need a new sharpening system, and bought the Precision Adjust out of curiosity. I dare say I'll find a use for it, but so far, it's a decided failure in terms of sharpening a Lambsfoot :(
 
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