Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[StoneBeard]

Shhh...Just speculating for now

I made a promise to myself to only buy three knives in 2017. One will be a gift, one will be the annual traditional forum knife and one will be a Lambsfoot as it is my most carried pattern.

I almost always carry two traditionals, one of which is my buffalo horn Lambsfoot. A guardians edition from Sheffield would be amazing. Please let me know if at some point I can provide any help.

After using the knife extensively over the weekend for packing and unpacking dozens of boxes, I have renewed appreciation of the blade shape, strength of the tip, and the ergonomics of the handle. At this point, the blade is pretty dull, but it still is capable to rip through duct tape. I thoroughly enjoyed carrying it around during the house move!

Great looking knife, glad to hear your enjoying its company

 

[AShearer]

My friend. This is a great photo that for me anyway, really shows the shape well. An A Wright needs to be my next acquisition. I'm convinced now.

 

[choombak]

That's a great looking knife, choombak! Are those snakewood covers?

Yes sir, they are.

 

[Bugdoc]

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[AShearer]

I made a promise to myself to only buy three knives in 2017. One will be a gift, one will be the annual traditional forum knife and one will be a Lambsfoot as it is my most carried pattern.

I almost always carry two traditionals, one of which is my buffalo horn Lambsfoot. A guardians edition from Sheffield would be amazing. Please let me know if at some point I can provide any help.



Great looking knife, glad to hear your enjoying its company

StoneBeard I keep making myself a similar promise, but I keep breaking it Nevertheless, my next acquisition will be a lambsfoot. Just not sure where best to get my hands on a real one?

 

[lambertiana]

Shhh...Just speculating for now

I would certainly be interested in this, as long as the price is not prohibitive.

 

[StoneBeard]

StoneBeard I keep making myself a similar promise, but I keep breaking it Nevertheless, my next acquisition will be a lambsfoot. Just not sure where best to get my hands on a real one?

I'd bet that Jack could provide you with a few good recommendations for picking one up.

Another resource would be to send WhittlinAway a PM. He graciously gifted me the one I carry and has two of his own, all have very acceptable fit and finish. I'd happily get another from whomever he went through

 

[Bartleby]

Shhh...Just speculating for now

Indeed, such a project would take a bit of doing.

 

[WhittlinAway]

It's great to see a good deal of traffic on this thread recently.

I certainly didn't need to use my Lambsfoot to remove the green plastic seal from this bottle, but it was bored after being in my pocket all day and not being pressed into service.

 

[Cambertree]

It's great to see a good deal of traffic on this thread recently.

For sure.

I haven't been posting much lately due to what seem like terminally broken Photo****et frustrations, but it's been good to catch up on the last couple of pages. (Guess I need to get switched over to another hosting site, like others here have done.)

One of the happy legacies of many migrants from the Mediterranean countries moving to Australia in the aftermath of WW2, is the plenitude of vineyards and olive groves which have been grown here since then.

I decided to try my hand at pickling some fresh olives. Apparently you need to soak them in water (changing daily) for a couple of weeks to leach out the bitter compounds before brining them.

My Lambsfoot was at hand to score each olive before soaking.

 

[Jack Black]

After using the knife extensively over the weekend for packing and unpacking dozens of boxes, I have renewed appreciation of the blade shape, strength of the tip, and the ergonomics of the handle. At this point, the blade is pretty dull, but it still is capable to rip through duct tape. I thoroughly enjoyed carrying it around during the house move!

Thanks for the report, that's a great-looking knife too

Shut up and take my money!!!

I made a promise to myself to only buy three knives in 2017. One will be a gift, one will be the annual traditional forum knife and one will be a Lambsfoot as it is my most carried pattern.

I almost always carry two traditionals, one of which is my buffalo horn Lambsfoot. A guardians edition from Sheffield would be amazing. Please let me know if at some point I can provide any help.

Please count me in Jack! The horn you've been showing off is superb.

I would certainly be interested in this, as long as the price is not prohibitive.

Indeed, such a project would take a bit of doing.

Thanks for your enthusiasm folks, no point discussion of this getting out of hand at the moment I never sell knives on the exchange,and don't want to become a dealer, so if - at some point - I do manage to get something special made up, it will be a very limited run just for the Lambsfoot enthusiasts who have contributed to this thread, and will be 'not for profit', so will be inexpensive. I've got a few ideas, but will keep them to myself for now. I know from experience what working with Sheffield cutlers is like, so it might just be a pipe-dream anyway

I need to get me one.

An A Wright needs to be my next acquisition. I'm convinced now.

I keep making myself a similar promise, but I keep breaking it Nevertheless, my next acquisition will be a lambsfoot. Just not sure where best to get my hands on a real one?

Surrender to the Power of the Lambsfoot Alan! PM sent

It's great to see a good deal of traffic on this thread recently.

I certainly didn't need to use my Lambsfoot to remove the green plastic seal from this bottle, but it was bored after being in my pocket all day and not being pressed into service.

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Always a treat to use a Lambsfoot Greg, cool pic my friend

I haven't been posting much lately due to what seem like terminally broken Photo****et frustrations, but it's been good to catch up on the last couple of pages. (Guess I need to get switched over to another hosting site, like others here have done.)

One of happy legacies of many migrants from the Mediterranean countries moving to Australia in the aftermath of WW2, is the plenitude of vineyards and olive groves which have been grown here since then.

I decided to try my hand at pickling some fresh olives. Apparently you need to soak them in water (changing daily) for a couple of weeks to leach out the bitter compounds before brining them.

My Lambsfoot was at hand to score each olive before soaking.

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Sorry to hear about your PB woes Chin (it's working OK for me, for now), and that's a great pic. In the late 70's, I lived among olive groves, but didn't like olives! I love them now, but there aren't many olive groves in Yorkshire unfortunately

In my pocket today

 

[Bartleby]

It would almost certainly take a bit of time to get such a project done. Getting a run of "above average" made up would require extra cost in materials and time one would think. One could have the serendipitous "best ones" put aside for sale to members, but getting a group of them together that way might require a lot of patience.

 

[Jack Black]

It would almost certainly take a bit of time to get such a project done. Getting a run of "above average" made up would require extra cost in materials and time one would think. One could have the serendipitous "best ones" put aside for sale to members, but getting a group of them together that way might require a lot of patience.

The last time I worked with a Sheffield cutlery firm, I had to personally oversee every single step of the manufacturing process! I wouldn't anticipate having to do that with Wright's, but I would expect it to be no small undertaking. Anyway, 'nuff said for now I think. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted if anything develops

 

[screened porch]

Jack, you could categorically and indignantly refuse to have anything to do with a Wright's sfo, and we selective readers would still badger you for a release date, I'm afraid.

 

[screened porch]

Maybe if you refused every day "three times before breakfast".
By the way, when you mentioned the superb ergos of the lambsfoot, did you mean the blade in any handle, or the blade in the rounded swayback handle I regard as canonical?

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, you could categorically and indignantly refuse to have anything to do with a Wright's sfo, and we selective readers would still badger you for a release date, I'm afraid.

LOL! it'd certainly make it easier if Wright's 'did email' They don't unfortunately, even their website is run by a third party.

By the way, when you mentioned the superb ergos of the lambsfoot, did you mean the blade in any handle, or the blade in the rounded swayback handle I regard as canonical?

While I think the Lambsfoot is the best all-rounder of all straight-blades, I think that the swayback handle gives the knife considerably better ergonomics than a straight handle

 

[Bugdoc]

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[AShearer]

Surrender to the Power of the Lambsfoot Alan! PM sent

That is very funny Jack!

 

[Jack Black]

Dare I say 'Forum Knife'? LOL

Nope!

That is very funny Jack!

Thanks Alan

 

[Jack Black]

While packaging up a Lambsfoot for one of our brethren just now, I noticed that the knife in question had a particularly nice, crisp tang-stamp, with a different font to usual. The photo below shows the tang stamp on the left next to the usual Wright tang-stamp. I wanted to get Herder and his son one each when they visited, so ordered four Lambsfoot knives from Wright's, mirror-polished with 'special buffalo' covers. When Herder and I visited the factory, John Maleham said that with very short runs, they put the stamp on with a fly-press, rather than the heavy presses seen in my photo thread about the factory, so maybe this stamp was applied like that? Looks good in my opinion