Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Prester John]

I should be good at this- I have plenty of darkness to work with.

Don't we all, Jer.

 

[Fodderwing]

Great photo, and magnificent knife, those covers.

Great shot of a sweet Lamb

Hope you're warmly tucked-in Dwight Great pic

Thanks fellows. R.I.P. Harvey

 

[Fodderwing]

Jack Black
Jack I hope you can convalesce for a while until you are better my friend.

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[Hoffmajo89]

Putting in some heavy use today, cutting a bagel in half already

*For any knife historians out there, this was originally an ebony 93 that’s been recovered in white bone

 

[SteveC]

Putting in some heavy use today, cutting a bagel in half already

*For any knife historians out there, this was originally an ebony 93 that’s been recovered in white bone

What a beauty !

 

[Rufus1949]

Good morning Guardians. The sun is supposed to shine here today for the first time in ten days! Have a great day everyone!
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Sweet

I should be good at this- I have plenty of darkness to work with.

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Sweet

Putting in some heavy use today, cutting a bagel in half already

*For any knife historians out there, this was originally an ebony 93 that’s been recovered in white bone

Sweet

A fine gathering of lambs, gentlemen!!

 

[Rufus1949]

Still no sun here!!

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack ! Your comment on the jigging got me wondering, was there a company in Sheffield, like Rogers in the US that supplied jigged bone to the various cutlery firms ?

There were a lot of them in Sheffield Steve, they are listed in trade directories as scale makers. Occasionally, they will have an advert listing some of the scales they made. The big companies made their own scales. It's worth noting that even the largest, like Joseph Rodgers, for example, did not have factories, in the way we have understood them to be since Henry Ford's time. Rather, they were a series of workshops, with the self-employed cutlers renting bench-space and power, and generally being supplied with the materials to make the knives, and being paid after the work was finished (this was called the 'Liver and Draw' system).

Good morning Guardians. The sun is supposed to shine here today for the first time in ten days! Have a great day everyone!
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Hope it's a better day than here Todd

I should be good at this- I have plenty of darkness to work with.

LOL! I've just ordered another 30 cans of Dark Heart stout

Thanks fellows. R.I.P. Harvey

Jack Black
Jack I hope you can convalesce for a while until you are better my friend.

Thanks brother, I got to de-frost the freezer today, turned out to be a bigger job than I'd expected!

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Beautiful photo

Putting in some heavy use today, cutting a bagel in half already

*For any knife historians out there, this was originally an ebony 93 that’s been recovered in white bone

A very handsome bagel-cutter

 

[Jack Black]

Sweet

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A fine gathering of lambs, gentlemen!!

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Who needs sun with that colourful Barlow ? Still, I hope you get some Bob

 

[SteveC]

Still no sun here!! View attachment 2475245

I hope you get some soon Bob !

There were a lot of them in Sheffield Steve, they are listed in trade directories as scale makers. Occasionally, they will have an advert listing some of the scales they made. The big companies made their own scales. It's worth noting that even the largest, like Joseph Rodgers, for example, did not have factories, in the way we have understood them to be since Henry Ford's time. Rather, they were a series of workshops, with the self-employed cutlers renting bench-space and power, and generally being supplied with the materials to make the knives, and being paid after the work was finished (this was called the 'Liver and Draw' system).

Thanks for the info Jack

 

[Fodderwing]

*For any knife historians out there, this was originally an ebony 93 that’s been recovered in white bone

And a beauty it is!

Still no sun here!! View attachment 2475245

I love these Daniels Family lambs. Stunning blue!

There were a lot of them in Sheffield Steve, they are listed in trade directories as scale makers. Occasionally, they will have an advert listing some of the scales they made. The big companies made their own scales. It's worth noting that even the largest, like Joseph Rodgers, for example, did not have factories, in the way we have understood them to be since Henry Ford's time. Rather, they were a series of workshops, with the self-employed cutlers renting bench-space and power, and generally being supplied with the materials to make the knives, and being paid after the work was finished (this was called the 'Liver and Draw' system)

That's interesting Jack.

Beautiful photo

Gracias.

 

[Rufus1949]

Who needs sun with that colourful Barlow ? Still, I hope you get some Bob

I hope you get some soon Bob !

Thanks gentlemen. I'm starting to get a bit moldy!

 

[Rufus1949]

I love these Daniels Family lambs. Stunning blue!

Thanks Dwight.

 

[SteveC]

Good morning Guardians

Hope everyone has a good start to the week

 

[Rufus1949]

Good morning Guardians

Hope everyone has a good start to the week



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You capture the jigging well Steve.

 

[SteveC]

You capture the jigging well Steve.

Thanks Bob, the sun sure helps

 

[bigfish64]

Same here, it will be nice to see the sun

It wears on you after awhile.

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Looks like Blue skies to me Bob.

There were a lot of them in Sheffield Steve, they are listed in trade directories as scale makers. Occasionally, they will have an advert listing some of the scales they made. The big companies made their own scales. It's worth noting that even the largest, like Joseph Rodgers, for example, did not have factories, in the way we have understood them to be since Henry Ford's time. Rather, they were a series of workshops, with the self-employed cutlers renting bench-space and power, and generally being supplied with the materials to make the knives, and being paid after the work was finished (this was called the 'Liver and Draw' system).

Hope it's a better day than here Todd

LOL! I've just ordered another 30 cans of Dark Heart stout



Thanks brother, I got to de-frost the freezer today, turned out to be a bigger job than I'd expected!

Beautiful photo

A very handsome bagel-cutter

Thanks Jack, hope you’re doing better.

Good morning Guardians

Hope everyone has a good start to the week



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Love that jigging Steve.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks for the info Jack

A pleasure Steve While there were a lot of scale makers, I'm sure that the cutlers would get to know a particular jigging style, and who had done the work

That's interesting Jack.

Going back in time, cutlers were issued with the materials to make up a dozen knives, and when they delivered them, they would draw their pay. Sometimes though, a cutler would be able to squeeze out an extra knife, so he'd probably grind off the tang stamp, and sell it on the side, since the work was his, and he was a self-employed cutler (a Little Mester). So, feeling hard done to, the gaffers demanded 13 knives to the dozen. The first to introduce this was a gaffer named Watkinson, who was the Master Cutler at one time. As a consequence, the cutler's favourite 'poet', the great Joseph Mather, penned what would become his best-known song, which was known, way beyond both Mather and Watkinson's lifetimes, by every cutler in the town. It's singing hounded Watkinson everywhere he went, until the end of his life, with the crowds in the cheap seats of Sheffield Theatre, singing it uproariously, whenever Watkinson entered, often led by Mather himself. Unfortunately Watkinson was not the only gaffer to introduce the practice, and George Wostenholm II even pushed a cutler's dozen to 14.

Watkinson And His Thirteens

This monster oppression behold how he stalks,
Keeps picking the bones of the poor as he walks,
There's not a mechanic throughout this whole land
But more or less feels the weight of his hand;
That offspring of tyranny, baseness and pride,
Our rights hath invaded and almost destroyed
May that man be banished who villainy screens:
Or sides with big Watkinson with his thirteens

Chorus:
And may the odd knife his great carcass dissect,
Lay open his vitals for men to inspect,
A heart full as black as the infernal gulf,
In that greedy, blood sucking, bone scraping wolf.

This wicked dissenter, expelled his own church,
Is rendered the subject of public reproach:
Since reprobate marks on his forehead appeared,
We all have concluded his conscience is seared:
See mammon his god, and oppression his aim,
Hark! how the streets ring with his infamous name,
The boys at the playhouse exhibit strange scenes
Respecting big Watkinson with his thirteens.

Chorus

Like Pharaoh for baseness, that type of the de'il,
He wants to flog journeymen with rods of steel,
And certainly would, had he got Pharaoh's power,
His heart is as hard, and his temper as sour;
But justice repulsed him and set us all free,
Like bond-slaves of old in the year jubilee.
May those be transported or sent for marines
That works for big Watkinson at his thirteens.

Chorus

We claim as true Yorkshire men leave to speak twice,
That no man should work for him at any price,
Since he has attempted our lives to enthral,
And mingle our liquor with wormwood and gall;
Beelzebub take him with his ill-got pelf,
He's equally bad, if not worse than thyself;
So shall every cutler that honestly means
Cry 'take away Watkinson with his thirteens.'

Chorus

But see foolish mortals! Far worse than insane,
Three fourths are returned into Egypt again;
Although Pharaoh's hands they had fairly escaped,
Now they must submit for their bones to be scraped;
Whilst they give themselves and their all for a prey
Let us be unanimous and jointly say,
Success to our sovereign who peaceably reigns,
But down with both Watkinson's twelves and thirteens.

And may the odd knife his great carcass dissect,
Lay open his vitals for men to inspect,
A heart full as black as the infernal gulf,
In that greedy, blood sucking, bone scraping wolf.

Thanks gentlemen. I'm starting to get a bit moldy!

Hope it doesn't come to that Bob!

Good morning Guardians

Hope everyone has a good start to the week



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You too Steve, thank you for those wonderful photos

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack, hope you’re doing better.

Thanks Todd