Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

Rufus1949 said:
Mowing the lawn, love this new battery powered View attachment 2218561electric mower, then some lemonade and vodka.😃 Enjoy your day everyone.
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Nice lamb Bob. I love my electric lawn mower, been using it for three years and still going strong. 😎👍
Jack Black said:
Yeah! 🤣 It's been a beautiful day here, and I live in such a friendly neighbourhood 😊 After getting back home from Charlie's, and being able to read the texts on my phone again, I saw that I had had a parcel delivered to the shop next door to the cafe! 🙄 So, after getting a little work done, I headed back down. It seemed rude not to call in at Charlie's, so I had a Moroccan tea 🙂👍

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That sounds like more fun Todd 😊 Great pics 😎👍
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Glad you have good neighbors, bad neighbors are no fun. 👍
Well, I said no shoveling for me but I did grab my shovel and helped out. I felt funny just standing there watching a former student of mine do all the work. 😎👍
 
sceva said:
There is an interesting Wright Senator posted in the Bernard Levine section; engraved, stag and from what I can see a poorly sharpened blade. Older knife?

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Sadly, Stan's passing has lead to a time when Sheffield knives, with no obvious connection to Stan, are baselessly speculated about, and even offered for sale :(

I've made a couple of comments in the Levine thread, the first of which reads (the second post shows my Stan Shaw Lambsfoot):

That Lambsfoot knife is only known as a 'Senator' by A. Wright & Son (a Senator being a Penknife pattern). Two people claim to have 'invented' and named the pattern, one the current owner of the firm, the other one of their longstanding retailers. Wright's have always used that pattern on the spring of the knife. They use a couple of other file-work patterns too. I recently saw a standard A. Wright & Son knife being touted for sale, as one of Stan's, on the basis that the file-work pattern was exclusive to Stan, which it certainly wasn't. Geoff Tweedale knew Stan much longer, and much better, than I did myself, but I was friends with Stan for a number of years, (as I am with Geoff), and a regular visitor to his workshop. I also had business dealings with A. Wright & Son for several years, and discussed the firm with Stan many times. Stan did work for a number of Sheffield firms, particularly when he was first independent, but during our many conversations about Wright's, he never once mentioned doing any work for them, and I don't see any mention of this in my Tweedale 2nd Edition, indeed Wright's only get a small entry. I know John Maleham well, and both of the men who claim to have come up with the 'Senator' pattern, and I'm pretty sure at least 2 of them never met Stan. If Stan ever did any work for Wright's, it must have been before John Maleham's time, but the pattern was created during his time at the firm. I'm not sure why Wright's would ever have contracted work to Stan, they have always had their own cutlers, and have always specialised in relatively inexpensive working knives. If it was to create a special piece, that is certainly not a special knife, only the engraving makes it stand out from any run of the mill knife in that pattern. Peter Devine did do Stan's engraving, but he did engraving for lots of folks, and you would need to identify who did the engraving on that knife. I don't think that knife is one of Stan's, look at the awful way the stag has been cut 'fat', and then ground to shape. Stan always had access to good Sambar, and cut his thin. I know for a fact that he detested the way Wright's stag was cut, it made no sense to him to cut it like that, and then grind off the bark. That knife was clearly produced at a time when the Indian Government's ban on Sambar exports had hit Sheffield cutlers hard, and most were having to use second-rate stag. The way the stag is cut is typical of the way Wright's generally cut their stag, and of the way the covers were ground, for much of the time John Maleham was gaffer. Stan got into the habit of marking the brass liners of his knives when he was at Ibberson's, where the practice pre-dated his starting there, and I don't think many knives left him without some form of mark. However, I can see no reason whatsoever to link this particular knife to Stan Shaw.
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sceva said:
MMMM Bacon

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Mmmm....What a tasty start to the day :) :thumbsup:
 
Rufus1949 said:
Thanks kindly.
I thought maybe you were entertaining the royal family Jack. Nice photo.
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Thanks Bob, one day... 🤣 ;):thumbsup:

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Prester John said:
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Good to see your '19 Vince :) :thumbsup:
bigfish64 said:
Glad you have good neighbors, bad neighbors are no fun. 👍
Well, I said no shoveling for me but I did grab my shovel and helped out. I felt funny just standing there watching a former student of mine do all the work. 😎👍
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Thanks Todd, the whole area is really friendly, I must have been talking to a lady I just met for an hour yesterday evening :D I know the feeling buddy, it can be hard to stand back, and let someone else do all the work :thumbsup:
 
Daniel W said:
Steve I hope you sciatica calms down soon. And a lovely lamb

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Thanks Daniel and nice progress on your Lamb ! 👍


Jack Black said:
Thanks Steve, how's your back today buddy? :thumbsup:

Good idea Jer, I have a couple on my kitchen table, plus a smaller one, I took for a Feuerhand, but is actually Chinese - I bought it, rusty on Leeds market, but could probably have got it cheaper new! 😏 Nice shot of OTW, that pivot pin is showing now isn't it? Looks like an interesting read :thumbsup:

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Looks like you're making steady progress Daniel, cool pic :) :thumbsup:

For the first few decades of my life, I was an avid library user, and read every outdoor-related book I could get from the once-impressive Sheffield Central Lending Library, (which the baskets at Sheffield Council are now trying to sell off). I read the books of Jack Cox several times, only recently discovering that, among other things, he was the last editor of the Boy's Own Annual. Really lightweight camping was still a way off, and Cox's books covered topics such as fire-lighting, foraging, navigating by the stars, improvised shelters, etc as essential to anyone going into the outdoors :thumbsup:

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Thanks buddy, my back has improved since yesterday :thumbsup:
 
Rufus1949 said:
Ah yes, market day. Good choice Jack. So that's where the crew came from for the movie.
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Yeah, they had to change the name for legal issues apparently! :D The line "jackin' the crops" actually referred to raising the price of sugar-beet, but was widely misunderstood ;) Thanks bro' :) :thumbsup:
 
SteveC said:
Sure wish I could find out about the Agrioare etch
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Steve I'd bet that's suppose to read "AGRICARE". It's a UK company. And the right side of the "O" looks flattened out.
Rufus1949 said:
Book is on its way.
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Bob every book he's written is worth a read. Especially "INTO THE WILD" and the one you have ordered.

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Fodderwing said:
Steve I'd bet that's suppose to read "AGRICARE". It's a UK company. And the right side of the "O" looks flattened out.

Bob every book he's written is worth a read. Especially "INTO THE WILD" and the one you have ordered.

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That's good to know Dwight. Great Wostie and wind down to your day.🍻
 
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