Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

Normally you post sweet treats, which make me want some because I gave up sweets for Lent.
But today, on Friday, you post delicious meat snacks, and I can't have meat today... you must be torturing me on purpose. 🤣
Inadvertantly I am guilty.
 
Spectacular Bagpipe Ebony Lamb, Jack.
Thanks a lot Harvey, I'm enjoying carrying it :)

True Dat. When seeking out Sheffield cutlery. I often feel like an archeologist looking for treasures from the past. Your lambfoot culinary images have been brilliant…And prolific. Hope your weekend is as awesome.
Totally Harvey :D Thank you very much my friend, I hope you have a wonderful one yourself :) :thumbsup:
Going into the weekend in a good weekend with a great knife… What could be better?

Good Morning Guardians. May your weekend be a good one.
Fab pic, as always :) :thumbsup:
 
Thank you, Harvey... it's going to be a Great Day. :)

Normally you post sweet treats, which make me want some because I gave up sweets for Lent.
But today, on Friday, you post delicious meat snacks, and I can't have meat today... you must be torturing me on purpose. 🤣
Oh no! o_O 😃 ;)

Hope you're doing OK John, and that you have a great weekend :) :thumbsup:
 
Almost got throught all the 2897 pages (i'm at 2800) and was wondering... did you ever saw a Lambsfoot knife with a longpull nail notch? Did it go against the "lambsfoot rules"?
I would like to go with a custom Lambsfoot pattern for my 40yo birthday, just want to be sure i'm not making a monstrosity! 😂

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Almost got throught all the 2897 pages (i'm at 2800) and was wondering... did you ever saw a Lambsfoot knife with a longpull nail notch? Did it go against the "lambsfoot rules"?
I would like to go with a custom Lambsfoot pattern for my 40yo birthday, just want to be sure i'm not making a monstrosity! 😂

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Well done :cool: I hope it's been an interesting read :) :thumbsup:

Lambsfoot knives with a long-pull are certainly very uncommon, but not completely unknown. Harvey cigarrodog cigarrodog posted a 1970's Joseph Rodgers Lambsfoot, with a long-pull, about a week ago. I have the same model, but mine is a very poor example :thumbsup: Have to say, I think a nail-nick looks better! :D ;) :thumbsup:
 
Well done :cool: I hope it's been an interesting read :) :thumbsup:

Lambsfoot knives with a long-pull are certainly very uncommon, but not completely unknown. Harvey cigarrodog cigarrodog posted a 1970's Joseph Rodgers Lambsfoot, with a long-pull, about a week ago. I have the same model, but mine is a very poor example :thumbsup: Have to say, I think a nail-nick looks better! :D ;) :thumbsup:

Thanks! I'm a big fan of long pull, but i need to agree a nail nick look great too (and is also more traditionnal) :)
 
Sad. Good olives are a true delight.
They certainly are Joshua :) They used to be better at that place, but while prices have increased, standards are slipping I'm afraid. I've eaten there about 20 times in the past 6 months, but probably won't go back :( :thumbsup:
Sorry for no food in my picture, however, the cherry blossom trees are blooming in our area.

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LOL! 🤣 Fantastic photo Jeremy, I must go and take some photos of the cherry trees behind my house :) :thumbsup:

The good weather here is forecast to hold for tomorrow, so I'm going to go out for a walk, and probably pick up some lunch while I'm out ;) I'm going to give my AC some pocket-time :) Hope everyone has a lovely weekend :) :thumbsup:

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Interesting thought Duncan, one of my big regrets is not collecting the scattered paperwork, strewn around the bombed-out cutlery factories I used to explore as a young boy, and obviously, not buying up more Sheffield cutlery when it was 'cheap as chips' ;) It's great to see your Hartshead Barlow, and that's an excellent background to show it off, always nice to see a piece of history my friend :) :thumbsup:

I didn't come into contact with American cutlery until the (late) 70's either Leon :) Looking back though, I find it strange that I regularly saw Italian, German, French, and Swiss cutlery on sale in Sheffield, alongside knives from the Far East, at a time when the Sheffield manufacturers were struggling, and firms were closing almost every week.

Good morning Guardians, I hope everyone has had a good week, and that you're looking forward to the weekend. A bit of sunshine has made a big difference here - along with a lack of boiler problems! :D I'm meeting my pal for coffee this morning, and then I'll probably go and do a bit of shopping. Got my Bagpipe Ebony Big 'Un in my pocket :) Have a great day Guardians :thumbsup:

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Wow Jack - imagine having that paper work now!!!
Isn’t it amazing with the power of hindsight that we look back at the things that were right in front of us.

I picked up that Board many years ago - thought it was kind of neat.
 
They certainly are Joshua :) They used to be better at that place, but while prices have increased, standards are slipping I'm afraid. I've eaten there about 20 times in the past 6 months, but probably won't go back :( :thumbsup:

LOL! 🤣 Fantastic photo Jeremy, I must go and take some photos of the cherry trees behind my house :) :thumbsup:

The good weather here is forecast to hold for tomorrow, so I'm going to go out for a walk, and probably pick up some lunch while I'm out ;) I'm going to give my AC some pocket-time :) Hope everyone has a lovely weekend :) :thumbsup:

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Beautiful picture, Jeremy. 🤠:thumbsup:

Great to see your AC, Jack. 🤠:thumbsup:
Thanks guys. Hope the weather cooperates with your plans tomorrow, Jack.
 
Great to see your AC, Jack. 🤠:thumbsup:
Thanks John, I took that pic at the National Railway Museum a few weeks back :) :thumbsup:

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Wow Jack - imagine having that paper work now!!!
Isn’t it amazing with the power of hindsight that we look back at the things that were right in front of us.
Yes indeed Duncan, so much must have been lost. When I was a youngster, Sheffield was covered with bombed out factories, houses, and buildings of all sorts. Alone, and with my friends, they were my playground. You'd go into some building that was probably at least a hundred years old, and every floor, and the roof, would have a huge hole through it, with wood and linoleum caved inwards, like a funnel. Around the sides, would be desks, benches, chairs, etc, and there were papers, and all sorts of detritus strewn all over the place. After they were bombed, the adults had probably had more sense than to go back into them, and risk serious injury, or worse, for the sake of whatever the Luftwaffe hadn't destroyed. I never took a single souvenir, except for the old glass soda siphons, which me and my friends would sometimes find, and which carried a hefty bounty of ten shillings and sixpence, upon return to any off-license or corner shop, a vast sum which would keep us in Black Jacks and Sherbet Lemons for a week. Eventually the bombed buildings were bulldozed, and their treasure lost forever.

Later, as cutlery factories, and the firms associated with steel and cutlery, closed like falling dominoes, they'd often close suddenly, telling their workers not to bother coming back again in the morning. Factory gates were locked, with few folks even clearing their desks or benches, or taking anything other than the tools they could carry. Sometimes the buildings, and their contents, were still there several decades later, and they were either eventually bulldozed, or stripped out, with the interiors gutted, and the contents burned. It's still going on in Sheffield unfortunately, but eventually, I guess they'll gut the last Sheffield cutlery factory, and then there'll be no more treasure left :(
I picked up that Board many years ago - thought it was kind of neat.
It IS neat Duncan, very :cool: Have a great weekend mate :) :thumbsup:
 
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