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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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Henry Beige
- Henry, where are tha lad?! Hope you keeping well 
Congrats Tyson!! When I saw you weren't yet blessed with a Lambsfoot, I was pulling for you. Enjoy it. Thanks, Jack for the wonderful contest, great fun!And the winner is....
Tyson A Wright!Congratulations Tyson, drop me a PM with your address please, and I'll get your first Lambsfoot off to you soon
Congrats to Tyson on being selected for the Jack Black GAW.And the winner is....
Tyson A Wright!
Hey Guardians, I hope you’re all well, and enjoying the weekend!
I’m playing catchup again, and jumping forward to post this ‘in real time’ before I get left behind by the Guardians Express.
Thanks John!
Sure, red brick seems to be a fitting background, considering the Lambsfoot pattern’s Victorian era origins.
Thanks Harvey.
Yes, although For The Term of His Natural Life was written in an easy to read popular novel format, I think it stands the test of time very well. Marcus Clarke had an enquiring mind and observant eye for the foibles and details of early Australia - the thin veneer of transplanted genteel ‘Society’ presiding over a hellish prison system.
There is a popular myth in modern Australia that most convicts were transported for petty thefts like stealing a loaf of bread. While it’s true that many of those sentenced to Transportation had committed very minor ‘crimes of poverty’, there were also many professional criminals from London’s well developed and stratified underworld, like Ikey Solomon - the basis for Dicken’s Fagan character - as well as numerous Irish rebels; and Scots and Yorkshire revolutionaries from the uprisings of the 1820s, in addition to Swing rioters, naval mutineers, early Trade Unionists, Luddites, Chartists, and French-Canadian and American prisoners of war.
Australian convict history presents a fascinating canvas of characters.
Yes, I pictured Henry VI as a kind of Manchurian Candidate puppet character.
I guess patience wasn’t one of Richard III’s strong suits!
Nice one Dwight, I hope you’re enjoying it. I’d rate it as the great Australian novel of the 19th century, as Huck Finn and Moby Dick are to American literature IMHO. Most of the dramatic events described in the novel were based on actual incidents. I first read the book in my early 20s, which prompted my girlfriend and I to take a road trip around Tasmania, to investigate the places described in the novel.
Thanks Preston. Yikes!
I hope you’re keeping warm, my friend.
Sounds amazing David.
This is an article on Alex Honnold’s 2017 astonishing free solo ascent of El Capitan.
Yes, that definitely makes sense. It’s interesting that you do seem to feel more refreshed at the end of a walk, even with a single stick removing some of that force from your knees.
Thanks Jack. That’s a classic shot of your Unity against red brick there.
@Nature Boy - that’s so cool that you found a Unity Lambsfoot. That’s a fine example.
Here’s mine hanging out with Lefty:
Yeah, they’re all great, but I particularly like those two-tone ones from the second batch as well.
Those and the black ribbons/river delta patterned ones are some of my favourites.
Speaking of fine Lambsfoot knives, I have a new arrival from another Guardian to reintroduce to the thread.
@Leslie Tomville kindly got in touch with me recently and asked if I’d be interested in giving this Michael May Lambsfoot a new home.
Thanks for the kind offer my friend and I’m very pleased with it.
Some of you may recall that @Leslie Tomville specified the stunning bocote covers and full profile Wright Lambsfoot blade, rather than Michael’s more usual version which starts off as a Wright blank but is ground a bit lower and rounder out to the tip.
It’s a beautiful knife. The strongly figured American wood, and brass bolster kind of makes me think that if the pattern had been picked up in the US, an American Lambsfoot version might look like a bit like this.
Thanks again, my friend.
I think the same thing, looking at some of the old road cuttings and gold rush diggings around here too.
Some of the creeks here have been diverted from their original courses, so the beds could be worked over for gold.
I found this old stump in the forest the other day - it still has the cuttings where the fellers placed their planks like a spiral stairway, and worked their way up above the buttress roots to begin chopping.
WHOAH! We got into Yorkshire Day around here because we thought it was fun (we love random holidays) but I didn't expect to win anything (other than a newfound appreciation for chip buttys). Thanks so much! I'm very much looking forward to this.And the winner is....
Tyson A Wright!
And the winner is....
Tyson A Wright!
Hope you all had a happy Yorkshire Day. Our first foray into the chip butty was a success, no doubt - steak fries, sourdough bread, a little too much butter, and A1 as our brown sauce. As my wife said, "it's carbs on carbs - of course it's delicious." All washed down with Yorkshire's own Samuel Smith's Organic Cider. We are now watching "All Creatures Great and Small" to continue our Yorkshire celebration.
Worth reading: who wrote "The Greasy Chip Butty" song? And "The Chip Butty Is the Deranged Nonsensical Sandwich of My Dreams".
Since I don't (yet) have a Real Lambsfoot knife, no knife content in this photo. So I included my Craftsman forged Bottle Cap Wrench, just to have some cool hand tool in there.
Great entry post, and I think it's awesome that someone who didn’t yet have a Lambsfoot won! When it arrives, I can add you to the official Guardians of the Lambsfoot Map if you’d like.Good grief! Is that real?!
Cheers Guardians, thanks again for a great Yorkshire Day
I was drinking mine from a beer tasting glass last night because everyone was in bed and I didn’t want to go fumbling around for a proper glass. 
It'd probably be illegal most places!
Thanks Barrett, probably not a great pic of it. My best pal bought it for my birthday a few years back. It's made by the English Pewter Company, who are actually based in the same Sheffield building, where, in 1913, Harry Brearley invented stainless steelThat’s a handsome whisky glass, Jack.
A pleasure Joshua, that's what I thought, I'm glad so many folks gave it a go
Suggestions for next year's Yorkshire Day giveaway welcome! 
Those Rosewood Big 'Uns are pretty timeless though JerSomehow I got transported to June 2019 of this thread, where I was liking things I somehow didn't so mark at the time. Or maybe I was unliking things I had liked.
