The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
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.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
One of the first songs I downloaded to my i-Phone.Hope this video is ok here.
I am enjoying seeing all the AC Stag lambfoot knives posted.
"Don't forget your space-beams" (=Eveready flashlights). Sybil Danning as queen of the Amazons.
Space-blades: I'm thinking of putting an EO notch in the black TEW.
Why the EO notch, that one a nail-breaker?
Hope this video is ok here.
I am enjoying seeing all the AC Stag lambfoot knives posted.
Thank you my friend. I’m beyond pleased. I haven’t told you this yet, but for a few months I’d been on and off hemming and hawing about asking you to help me find a nice rosewood example on one of your trips to Sheffield. So when this opportunity came up, I had no choice but to jump on it.
Fortune favours the Lambsfoot (to mangle another quote)! 
My favorite Marty Robbins song. Listened to it hundreds of times at night under a mosquito net in the Amazon when I was a kid. Brings back so many memories.
That pic is a pre-monkeying shot. Trying to make it look more like a lambsfoot, I made it look more like a cobbler's skiver. I gave up sloping the back because I was running into the nail nick. But with an EO notch, I won't need a nail-nick. We'lll see.
Nobody seems to use really dark stag, as they did at one time. I keep meaning to ask Wright's if they will make me a couple up with these old scales I was gifted by @ADEE
Yeah, I sometimes think about getting a bike again, but there are precious few back roads here, and it rains nine months of the year!
Edit - And it's 25 years since I last rode one!
My Ashley's Choice Lambsfoot showed up in my mailbox at work today sometime between 2 and 3pm.I teach a class from 2:30-3:20, but today one of their activities was to leave the classroom and look for real world examples of a page of geometric concepts. While I was waiting for them to return, I ran down to check my mailbox, and there it was!
While they recharge, the best I can do is identify my knife in Jack's Ashley's Choice group shots. Mine is second from the top on the right in each photo, just above the knife with distinctive brownish color in both photos above. Color me happy!
- GT
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Hope this video is ok here.
I am enjoying seeing all the AC Stag lambfoot knives posted.
That pic is a pre-monkeying shot. Trying to make it look more like a lambsfoot, I made it look more like a cobbler's skiver. I gave up sloping the back because I was running into the nail nick. But with an EO notch, I won't need a nail-nick. We'lll see.
Keep us posted Jer There is always a conflict for me as to whether to keep the original covers for historical reasons, even if they are ugly. I need to find a really battered old Lambsfoot! We took some interesting back roads driving in the South West of England, on our way from Stonehenge to Durdle Door. Tall hedges on either side, completely blind curves and only wide enough for one car (despite being open to two-way traffic). I can't imagine wanting to ride a motorcycle on those roads!
A biker friend of mine had both his legs, and an arm broken just the other week In the early days of motorcycling here, the biggest cause of fatalities were horses on country roads GT, that distinctive brownish colored knife you pointed out next to your knife in the family photo looks awfully familiar...
I have to say, while I've been happy with all my Guardians knives, I think this one might be my favorite. Two things that really stand out to me about this knife (besides the fantastic Sambar stag, of course) are the size and the fit and finish. The size, in my opinion, is just about perfect. One small complaint that I've always had about the "standard" size A. Wright Lambsfoot is that it's a bit bulky, especially in the pocket. This one feels much more svelte. The size is just about halfway between the standard A. Wright Lambsfoot and a Case Swayback. The fit and finish on this knife are a step up even from the previous Guardians knives, which were already a big step up from A. Wright's standard offerings (at least in my admittedly limited experience). This thing has, by far, the smoothest walk and talk I've ever felt on a knife from A. Wright. It's like butter.
Thanks again, Jack, for another fantastic knife. (And to think I almost missed out on this one entirely!
It was also easier for me to deal with Wright's this time, as they are learning the standard of work I would like and expect, and that I am not afraid to be critical. I also hope that cutlers like Ashley are genuinely enjoying producing work of a higher standard, rather than having everything dictated by price and the clock. I am very pleased that folks here are prepared to support what is ,arguably, the last true Sheffield cutlery firm. Your willingness to do so has helped to bring about these special knives, which I genuinely think are the best to come out of a Sheffield factory for a very long time 
Haha. A big-un on his hipGreat song! I always think of this one when folks here in the Lambsfoot thread talk about the Big 'Uns.
Congrats on the Rosewood
Greg, you are a good man!I'm glad you mentioned its weight. I had the same immediate impression when I pulled mine out of its packaging: it feels lighter.
In the interest of furthering Lambsfoot Science, I measured my collection of A. Wright mediums using our digital kitchen scale. From lightest to heaviest:
No wonder the Rosewood feels lighter, the next on the list weighs 8% more than it. The heaviest clocks in at 11% heavier.
- New Arrival Rosewood -- 63 g
- 2018 Ebony Guardians Edition -- 68 g
- Standard Buffalo Horn -- 69 g
- 2017 Buffalo Horn Guardians Edition -- 70 g
Curiosity satisfied. Carry on.
We now have this to add to our weights and measurements of the lambsfoot.
I have to convert to ounces now!I'm glad you mentioned its weight. I had the same immediate impression when I pulled mine out of its packaging: it feels lighter.
In the interest of furthering Lambsfoot Science, I measured my collection of A. Wright mediums using our digital kitchen scale. From lightest to heaviest:
No wonder the Rosewood feels lighter, the next on the list weighs 8% more than it. The heaviest clocks in at 11% heavier.
- New Arrival Rosewood -- 63 g
- 2018 Ebony Guardians Edition -- 68 g
- Standard Buffalo Horn -- 69 g
- 2017 Buffalo Horn Guardians Edition -- 70 g
Curiosity satisfied. Carry on.
It was also easier for me to deal with Wright's this time, as they are learning the standard of work I would like and expect, and that I am not afraid to be critical. I also hope that cutlers like Ashley are genuinely enjoying producing work of a higher standard, rather than having everything dictated by price and the clock. I am very pleased that folks here are prepared to support what is ,arguably, the last true Sheffield cutlery firm. Your willingness to do so has helped to bring about these special knives, which I genuinely think are the best to come out of a Sheffield factory for a very long time
Jack Black
for some info on sourcing a good one. 
Jack Black
for being a great source of information in this thread, a helpful hand in helping me get these and for being, from what I see, the keeper of this thread and all the awesomeness in it. 
Nice post, Joe.Guardians,
When i joined this forum I’d always pass over this thread. It’s a giant and, to be honest, it’s more than a little intimidating to dive into. And, if you start at the most current part of the thread, there’s a definite “secret society” vibe to it.
Well, I started reading it from the beginning about a month ago. And somewhere near pages 70-80 I got a real itch to pick one of these up. I’ve always been a fan of US made knives and the culture of them here in the States. But it was really interesting to learn about another style(?) of pocket knife and I reached out to
While I went through the process I kept reading and I finally finished the thread a week or so ago. Now look what showed up today. I’m super excited with how quickly they got here, the fit and finish and the overall quality! I’m so glad I was able to get both an Ashley’s Choice and a Rosewood. These two are great I could not be happier with them.
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Thanks so much
-Joe
Also, putting the knives in this little Tupperware thing for shipping is a crazy good idea. Nothing crushed and everything made it in perfect shape!!
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Oh yes, across the country there are certainly plenty of winding country roads, thousands and thousands of miles of them, and they can be death-traps (did for T.E. Lawrence), but we don't have any in central Leeds - plenty of very dangerous roads though!
Thanks for the glowing praise for the AC Lambsfoot my friend, I'm so glad that they turned out so well
Guardians,
When i joined this forum I’d always pass over this thread. It’s a giant and, to be honest, it’s more than a little intimidating to dive into. And, if you start at the most current part of the thread, there’s a definite “secret society” vibe to it.
Well, I started reading it from the beginning about a month ago. And somewhere near pages 70-80 I got a real itch to pick one of these up. I’ve always been a fan of US made knives and the culture of them here in the States. But it was really interesting to learn about another style(?) of pocket knife and I reached out to
While I went through the process I kept reading and I finally finished the thread a week or so ago. Now look what showed up today. I’m super excited with how quickly they got here, the fit and finish and the overall quality! I’m so glad I was able to get both an Ashley’s Choice and a Rosewood. These two are great I could not be happier with them.
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Thanks so much
-Joe
Also, putting the knives in this little Tupperware thing for shipping is a crazy good idea. Nothing crushed and everything made it in perfect shape!!
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I'm glad you mentioned its weight. I had the same immediate impression when I pulled mine out of its packaging: it feels lighter.
In the interest of furthering Lambsfoot Science, I measured my collection of A. Wright mediums using our digital kitchen scale. From lightest to heaviest:
No wonder the Rosewood feels lighter, the next on the list weighs 8% more than it. The heaviest clocks in at 11% heavier.
- New Arrival Rosewood -- 63 g
- 2018 Ebony Guardians Edition -- 68 g
- Standard Buffalo Horn -- 69 g
- 2017 Buffalo Horn Guardians Edition -- 70 g
Curiosity satisfied. Carry on.
Well done This is what it looks like today. It's fine.
Jack, there's so much in this that makes me happy. I'm glad that things were easier this time around and that they are getting accustomed to working to your high standards. The image of a Wright's cutler completing a piece for one of you orders, setting it down with satisfaction, and thinking "now there's one that will please Mr. Jack Black" gives me a smile. Like you, I hope they are truly enjoying this work and that that will encourage them to continue to strive for top quality in your orders.
I hope you're able to convey to them our sense of appreciation for their work, even if they never directly read it here themselves. Thanks for making these knives possible and for helping us to help support them. Not to mention all of the direct support that you've given them as well.
Thank you my friend Guardians,
When i joined this forum I’d always pass over this thread. It’s a giant and, to be honest, it’s more than a little intimidating to dive into. And, if you start at the most current part of the thread, there’s a definite “secret society” vibe to it.
Well, I started reading it from the beginning about a month ago. And somewhere near pages 70-80 I got a real itch to pick one of these up. I’ve always been a fan of US made knives and the culture of them here in the States. But it was really interesting to learn about another style(?) of pocket knife and I reached out to
While I went through the process I kept reading and I finally finished the thread a week or so ago. Now look what showed up today. I’m super excited with how quickly they got here, the fit and finish and the overall quality! I’m so glad I was able to get both an Ashley’s Choice and a Rosewood. These two are great I could not be happier with them.
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Thanks so much
-Joe
Also, putting the knives in this little Tupperware thing for shipping is a crazy good idea. Nothing crushed and everything made it in perfect shape!!
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Well done on your Herculean efforts to read through the thread, it's certainly getting big now, but hopefully there's lots of good knowledge in there I'm glad the knives made it, and that you're pleased with them, I think they will serve you well. I try to package everything as securely as possible - if anyone thinks I'm losing my marbles writing their address on every single layer of packaging, it's just in case a parcel should get burst open! The packages end up being a heck of a lot bigger than the contents, but are hopefully less likely to get lost as a result Thanks for the kind words and great pics, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your posts here Interesting that you mention T.E. Lawrence; although I didn’t know this at the time we were there, his home (and the site of his crash) are just a few miles from Durdle Door. We may have driven down that same road, or at least quite near it.
I’m sorry to hear about your friend; I hope he’s recovering well enough.
Glad to hear that working with Wright’s is getting a bit easier for you. I’d have to imagine the cutlers doing the work appreciate the opportunity to really show off what they can do. I know we certainly appreciate it!
Great post, Joe! Welcome!
Maybe it is even in one of the local museums? An old friend of my dad's rode a Brough Superior into his nineties Ashley is young and enthusiast, and talented He also likes motorbikes 
