Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

echoscout said:
Afternoon Guardians! Lots of nice Lambs being shown today. Quite a bit cooler here today. Which is a welcome relief.

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That's a nice one there, for sure 😊👍
sbh06 said:
Headed home from work.

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Sorry for the detour Jeremy, but it looks like a nice route 😊 Beautiful colours on your K'roo Lamb 😎👍
cudgee said:
The Bain of my life. 🤯🤯🤯🤬🤬🤬. And my answer to this problem does not fit well in modern society. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:.
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LOL! My brother-in-law's father, a WW2 Spitfire pilot, used to have a saying, "The things you see when you haven't got your gun with you!" 😁👍
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I'll echo Pete, gorgeous Bob! 😎😉👍
mitch13 said:
BobStag.
First week of spring, supposed to get up to 28c this afternoon about 84f.
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Spring has soon warmed up Bob 😎👍
cudgee said:
It's hovering at about 19C or 70F here at the moment. Got shorts on for the first time since Autumn. But Snow in the High Country tomorrow, with a cold snap due tonight. But i'll take what i can get.
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Sounds good to me Leon 😊👍
 
cudgee said:
It's hovering at about 19C or 70F here at the moment. Got shorts on for the first time since Autumn. But Snow in the High Country tomorrow, with a cold snap due tonight. But i'll take what i can get.
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Yeah we are supposed to get a cold snap tomorrow with rain.
 
Jack Black said:
That's a nice one there, for sure 😊👍

Sorry for the detour Jeremy, but it looks like a nice route 😊 Beautiful colours on your K'roo Lamb 😎👍

LOL! My brother-in-law's father, a WW2 Spitfire pilot, used to have a saying, "The things you see when you haven't got your gun with you!" 😁👍

I'll echo Pete, gorgeous Bob! 😎😉👍

Spring has soon warmed up Bob 😎👍

Sounds good to me Leon 😊👍
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Thanks Jack. It certainly could have been worse.
 
Jack Black said:
:D :thumbsup:

I know the feeling Bill :( Hope you are all enjoying the weekend :) :thumbsup:

Sorry to hear that Todd :( You posted a great-looking pic though :) :thumbsup:

Best weather we've had in months, outside, but I'm stuck indoors :( I did manage to find time to do a little sharpening though ;) I haven't had my Spydie sharpener out for ages, so I thought I'd give it an airing :D Then I remembered I have some Gunny Juice to try out, courtesy of Brian @Fixall (as well as a new GEC leather strop) :) Impressive stuff, though I need to watch another couple of Gunny tutorials :thumbsup:

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Most of the time, I just strop my Lambsfoot knives, but while I had my sharpening box out, I figured I'd give the Hartshead Barlows a tickle. That steel sharpens fast :) Bit of oil in the joint for good measure ;) Noticeable how different the action is between the stag model that I've carried so much, and the Rosewood model I need to carry more :cool: Of course, as soon as I sat down at my kitchen table, the sun moved onto the back of my neck, and also bleached out my pics :rolleyes:

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I was feeling a bit peckish, and remembered I had some leftover new potatoes, so I seasoned them, and threw them in a pan with some hot olive oil. Then I decided to throw in a sausage, and a tomato. Went down nicely with some hot sauce. Fried food and knife sharpening, Tool Man would be jealous! :D :thumbsup:

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One of the knives I had to fettle was the German-made Lambsfoot that I picked up in Whitby a few weeks back. I was very interested to find this one. The tang stamp indicated it dates from between the two World Wars (1920's/30's), when 'Foreign' was a better export stamp than 'German'. Some very good, but inexpensive knives were produced for export, mainly to England, with this fairly transparent subterfuge. 'Forged Steel' is also typical, but the oh-so-Sheffield use of 'make' rather than 'made' is interesting, as is the choice of pattern of course. There's an article in the January 2019 issue of Knife Magazine, by H herder and myself, exploring the relationship between Richards of Sheffield, and its older German sibling, Richartz of Solingen. How different that relationship might have been were it not for WW2. It would make sense for German cutlers to copy a Sheffield pattern, for export to Britain, but I can't help wondering if this might have been made by Richartz.

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The simple knife is well-made. Typically it was overcleaned externally by the so-called 'antique dealer' I bought it from, and just as typically un-cleaned internally. So cleaning it up a bit, and adding some oil, has improved the action, which was a little on the feeble side previously. The blade is ground thin, and it's sharpened up like a wee razor, especially after a bit of a strop :thumbsup:

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Hey Jack, that's very interesting German-made variation and quite uncommon. I think Richartz would be a good guess, but it doesn't appear that their sister company Richards produced any Lamb Foot models, at least from the early 1950s onward.
With so many post WWII Sheffield cutlery companies offering Lamb Foot knives, I would have expected Richards to follow suit, especially if Richartz had produced a Lamb Foot model???
I have yet to run across any German company who offered and put their name on a Lamb Foot knife. Not yet at least... :)

On a related (Lamb Foot themed) note, hard to beat fresh Midwest sweet corn!!!

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herder said:
Hey Jack, that's very interesting German-made variation and quite uncommon. I think Richartz would be a good guess, but it doesn't appear that their sister company Richards produced any Lamb Foot models, at least from the early 1950s onward.
With so many post WWII Sheffield cutlery companies offering Lamb Foot knives, I would have expected Richards to follow suit, especially if Richartz had produced a Lamb Foot model???
I have yet to run across any German company who offered and put their name on a Lamb Foot knife. Not yet at least... :)

On a related (Lamb Foot themed) note, hard to beat fresh Midwest sweet corn!!!

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Hey buddy, great to see you here, I was just thinking about you. I hope everything is ok 😊👍

That's a very good point about Richards! A case of wishful thinking on my part I dare say! 😁 Richards pre-WW2 production does seem to have been quite different to post-WW2, but they certainly never produced a Lambsfoot later.

What do you think to that one-pin construction too, pretty unusual? I only have one Richartz knife, and I'd say it's a little later, but it certainly doesn't have that. So, probably just a bad guess! 😁 👍

I'm glad to see you're eating well my friend, nice pic 😊👍

Insomnia has had me in its grasp, but it's just coming up to 5am now here 🥱
 
Jack Black said:
Hey buddy, great to see you here, I was just thinking about you. I hope everything is ok 😊👍

That's a very good point about Richards! A case of wishful thinking on my part I dare say! 😁 Richards pre-WW2 production does seem to have been quite different to post-WW2, but they certainly never produced a Lambsfoot later.

What do you think to that one-pin construction too, pretty unusual? I only have one Richartz knife, and I'd say it's a little later, but it certainly doesn't have that. So, probably just a bad guess! 😁 👍

I'm glad to see you're eating well my friend, nice pic 😊👍

Insomnia has had me in its grasp, but it's just coming up to 5am now here 🥱
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Looking forward to the market report, Jack. Hope you have a great day.
 
Jack Black said:
That's a very good point about Richards! A case of wishful thinking on my part I dare say! 😁 Richards pre-WW2 production does seem to have been quite different to post-WW2, but they certainly never produced a Lambsfoot later.
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Just as a further point on the absence of a Lambsfoot from Richards post-WW2 production, after they licensed the shell-handle Swinden-Key construction from ELOSI, their blade and frame patterns are the same as those produced by Imperial, Jowika, etc, and so presumably those patterns came from ELOSI?
Prester John said:
Looking forward to the market report, Jack. Hope you have a great day.
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Thanks Vince, hopefully, the sunny weather will bring out a few colourful characters! :D ;) Have a good one yourself, my friend :) :thumbsup:

Good morning Guardians, no sign of any sunshine here yet, but the forecast is good. No doubt Tool Man will be sunning himself in his vest! :D Have a great day Guardians :thumbsup:

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