Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

Been very busy lately, but I thought I would drop in and say hi. We are mostly moved in at the new place, with most of the heavy lifting all done. It will be nice to get settled in soon.

I had this guy with me over the weekend, it got quite the workout. I'll also throw in a pic of the very nice view I get to enjoy at the new house.

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Pàdruig said:
Been very busy lately, but I thought I would drop in and say hi. We are mostly moved in at the new place, with most of the heavy lifting all done. It will be nice to get settled in soon.

I had this guy with me over the weekend, it got quite the workout. I'll also throw in a pic of the very nice view I get to enjoy at the new house.

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Wow! What a fantastic view Dylan! :) :) :thumbsup: Your ebony Lambsfoot is looking as great as ever my friend :) Hope the rest of your move goes like a breeze :thumbsup:

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scrteened porch said:
I'm glad I didn't hallucinate this old spelling of clue, even though I misattributed it. I think it was this thread.
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Well I never knew that about a square sail.... Thanks SP I can say I actually learned something today :thumbsup:

bonzodog said:
View attachment 901854 No surprise ,still this little beauty.
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bonzodog can I ask is that EO notch a self-modification or a factory feature?

Pàdruig said:
Been very busy lately, but I thought I would drop in and say hi. We are mostly moved in at the new place, with most of the heavy lifting all done. It will be nice to get settled in soon.

I had this guy with me over the weekend, it got quite the workout. I'll also throw in a pic of the very nice view I get to enjoy at the new house.

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That's the stream at the bottom of your new garden you posted about a few weeks ago? That's fantastic! :thumbsup:

Blake the Blade said:
Picked up this lovely old wostie IXL this week. Great walk and talk, half stop and beautiful brown jigged bone. :):thumbsup:
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Untitled by Blake Blade, on Flickr
Untitled by Blake Blade, on Flickr

- Mark
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That's really stunning:thumbsup: I wish Sheffield still turned out jigged bone like that.

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Pàdruig said:
Been very busy lately, but I thought I would drop in and say hi. We are mostly moved in at the new place, with most of the heavy lifting all done. It will be nice to get settled in soon.

I had this guy with me over the weekend, it got quite the workout. I'll also throw in a pic of the very nice view I get to enjoy at the new house.

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Oh, that is beautiful! Yeah, I'm jelly! :p
Blake the Blade said:
Picked up this lovely old wostie IXL this week. Great walk and talk, half stop and beautiful brown jigged bone. :):thumbsup:
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Untitled by Blake Blade, on Flickr
Untitled by Blake Blade, on Flickr

- Mark

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That's a great one. I love the blade stamping, as if one could mistake it for anything but a REAL LAMB FOOT KNIFE.
 
Jack Black said:
Yeah, me too. How did they let skills like that die? :(
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Making a simplistic political statement here Jack but I think it had something to do with globalization which seemed to of put paid to many skills once quite prevalent throughout the western world. :rolleyes::(

-David
 
Jack Black said:
I can't remember which thread it was Jer :thumbsup: You asked if we still spell 'clue' (a piece of evidence or information) as 'clew' here. My understanding is that it has not been prevalent since the 17th century :thumbsup:
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scrteened porch said:
I guess I'm older than I thought.
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:D:D:D

The etymology of "clew/clue" was fascinating, Jer. I'd have never guessed the word was derived from skeins of thread, Minotaurs, and finding one's way out of a labyrinth! :thumbsup::cool::cool:

- GT
 
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Blake the Blade said:
Was this type of jigging done on a machine or by hand?
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I'd say by hand, they were still hand-cutting files in Sheffield well into the 20th century. Labour was cheap, and most of the Sheffield cutlery gaffers never liked investing in machinery.

donn said:
Making a simplistic political statement here Jack but I think it had something to do with globalization which seemed to of put paid to many skills once quite prevalent throughout the western world. :rolleyes::(
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Yes David, I also think that during the post-war period, when the Sheffield firms were struggling to survive, fashions in pocket cutlery were changing, I don't even recall seeing anyone with a jigged bone pocket knife as a kid. With the losses during WW2, there were plenty of jobs in the 1960's, and how many kids, leaving school wanted to work as a bone-jigger? Nobody even wanted to go into the cutlery trade, the way things were in Sheffield, it was badly paid, dirty, dangerous, not at all prestigious, and you'd just be waiting to get thrown out of a job due to the firm closing down. A former brother-in-law of mine was regarded as a bit of a 'thickie', leaving school with no qualifications. He was one of the last apprentices taken on at Joseph Rodgers, ended up at Richards when what was left of Rodgers moved there, and then on the dole when they closed down. I'm not sure he even finished his apprenticeship, from what he told me, it sounded like the apprentices spent more time sweeping floors than they did learning to make pocket knives :(
 
5K Qs said:
:D:D:D

The etymology of "clew/clue" was fascinating, Jer. I'd have never guessed the word was derived from skeins of thread, Minotaurs, and finding one's way out of a labyrinth! :thumbsup::cool::cool:

- GT
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I'm pretty surprised "clew" was the primary spelling in 1941.
 
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