Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[5K Qs]

Thanks GT, seems there was no need to throw out half the contents of my fridge afterall! I learned the perils of a runaway sausage early in life my friend! ...

Jack, your picture must be in the dictionary next to "raconteur"! You have a skillfully-told and usually amusing anecdote for almost every situation!! "Perils of a runaway sausage", indeed!

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What a cracking watch GT. Do you still use it?
That picture was less than 2 miles from a main road and within earshot of a major motorway. On a clear day I'd be able to see Manchester behind me. We don't have the tractless wilderness of North America
but if I walked in a straight line over the hills in the distance the next major town I'd hit would Carlisle about 100 miles north

Thanks, David. The watch still works, but I almost never carry it for fear of losing an heirloom.
100 consecutive miles of empty country seems quite spacious!!

that was the overnight temp it warms up in the day.
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DESCRIPTION HIGH / LOW PRECIP WIND HUMIDITY
TODAY

NOV 11 Partly Cloudy
0°-9°
10%
SSW 3 km/h 68%
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Wait a minute! I may have been "over-pitying" you for your cold temps, Dave. In Alberta, these are probably Celsius/centigrade degrees, not Fahrenheit, right?

If my dodgy knees, crap eyesight and non-existent hairline are any indication, I've not got decades to give...

I hear you, David! I tell people I walk quite quickly because I don't have much time left, and want to minimize my time-in-transit!

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Great pic of the Eye of Sauron, David! Mordor is looking more welcoming than I'd have imagined.

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I've barely got time to darn me socks, let alone write a book ...

How much time does it take to say, "Darn these holey socks!"?

One more time proved its usefulness

Splendid photo of the fruits of your lambsfoot's labors, M mpt !

Fantastic frosty pic of your lambsfoot, @Travman! AC = Autumn Cool??

I'm totin some Ebony today! After all it is Wednesday!

Beauties, Ron!

I carry a Lambsfoot...

Because the sausage rolls in York Market are big enough to share

How 'bout you?

I carry a Lambsfoot...
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because my fingertip was too long.

ha ha I was trying to take a photo, with the sun behind me, the knife was in a half-open position. I went to move the LF and snap the blade closed. A real rookie move on my part You know how you think you shouldn't do something this or that way yet you do it.

For a minute, I forgot that LF probably represents "lambsfoot" and thought you were using a much less charitable term (starting with "little") to describe the knife you were moving, Dave!

Morning folks Pocketing this old Alfred Blackwell today

Couple of venerable tools in that pic, Jack!!

Looking good GT

Thanks for your support!

I carry a lambsfoot . . .

. . . because I bloody well feel like it!

How 'bout you?

I haven't had a chance to wade through that photoshop thread yet, GT, so maybe it's been done, but I've been thinking. If GEC were to decide to make a Lambsfoot blade, which existing pattern would be the best fit? I imagine the #47 is the closest to the standard swayback.

FWIW, I don't remember seeing any discussion about a frame for a GEC lambsfoot, Rachel. At 3 3/4", the 47 is longer than the lambsfoot knives I currently have, I think.

Looked at the photoshopped pics, and they look all wrong. If a lambsfoot blade is to be put in a trapper, it has to replace the castrater blade, NOT the clip. The trapper clip is one of the coolest of them all. I like the Case wharncliff trappers.
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I like the idea of getting a blade with a straight edge, wharncliffe or lambsfoot, in a mini trapper, but we'll just have to agree to disagree on what blade it would replace, Vince. I won't post a pic of my chestnut bone Case mini trapper in this thread, but if you saw it, the patina would indicate that I use the spey blade substantially more often than the clip. I'd like to give every last man/woman jack of us an opportunity to have a spey/lambsfoot combination!

I will post another pic of my Man Jack, my lambsfoot carry for this week:


- GT

 

[WhittlinAway]

I carry a lambsfoot...

... because I wouldn’t feel completely dressed without one in my right front pocket.

How ‘bout you?

 

[Prester John]

I like the idea of getting a blade with a straight edge, wharncliffe or lambsfoot, in a mini trapper, but we'll just have to agree to disagree on what blade it would replace, Vince. I won't post a pic of my chestnut bone Case mini trapper in this thread, but if you saw it, the patina would indicate that I use the spey blade substantially more often than the clip. I'd like to give every last man/woman jack of us an opportunity to have a spey/lambsfoot combination!

 

[Pàdruig]

Good morning, fellas (still morning here).

I hope everyone is well. Carrying the AC today, showing off the pile side for a change.

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, your picture must be in the dictionary next to "raconteur"! You have a skillfully-told and usually amusing anecdote for almost every situation!! "Perils of a runaway sausage", indeed!


Thanks, David. The watch still works, but I almost never carry it for fear of losing an heirloom.
100 consecutive miles of empty country seems quite spacious!!


Wait a minute! I may have been "over-pitying" you for your cold temps, Dave. In Alberta, these are probably Celsius/centigrade degrees, not Fahrenheit, right?


I hear you, David! I tell people I walk quite quickly because I don't have much time left, and want to minimize my time-in-transit!


Great pic of the Eye of Sauron, David! Mordor is looking more welcoming than I'd have imagined.


How much time does it take to say, "Darn these holy socks!"?


Splendid photo of the fruits of your lambsfoot's labors, M mpt !


Fantastic frosty pic of your lambsfoot, @Travman! AC = Autumn Cool??



Beauties, Ron!








For a minute, I forgot that LF probably represents "lambsfoot" and thought you were using a much less charitable term (starting with "little") to describe the knife you were moving, Dave!


Couple of venerable tools in that pic, Jack!!


Thanks for your support!





FWIW, I don't remember seeing any discussion about a frame for a GEC lambsfoot, Rachel. At 3 3/4", the 47 is longer than the lambsfoot knives I currently have, I think.


I like the idea of getting a blade with a straight edge, wharncliffe or lambsfoot, in a mini trapper, but we'll just have to agree to disagree on what blade it would replace, Vince. I won't post a pic of my chestnut bone Case mini trapper in this thread, but if you saw it, the patina would indicate that I use the spey blade substantially more often than the clip. I'd like to give every last man/woman jack of us an opportunity to have a spey/lambsfoot combination!

I will post another pic of my Man Jack, my lambsfoot carry for this week:
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- GT

Thank you for the compliments GT, I always enjoy reading through your mammoth posts

 

[Jack Black]

I carry a lambsfoot...

... because I wouldn’t feel completely dressed without one in my right front pocket.

How ‘bout you?

Cool post my friend I am in the process of reading through the whole thread again, and noticed the post where that one was new, quite a long time ago now

 

[Jack Black]

Good morning, fellas (still morning here).

I hope everyone is well. Carrying the AC today, showing off the pile side for a change.

Nice colours on the pile side Dylan

 

[Prester John]

I feel for you John, I've been a teacher, youth-worker, and lecturer myself (and a parent!), but I think things are way worse today, where bad manners are mainstream My first day as a youth-worker, a kid pulled a knife on me, but we ended up getting on really well, and I still see him very occasionally

Was it a lambsfoot? Or was it like the scene in Crocodile Dundee?

 

[Jody744]

Secret’s in the sauce! When you run out of bbq sauce, simply make your own. No place like the South!

 

[Jack Black]

Was it a lambsfoot? Or was it like the scene in Crocodile Dundee?

LOL! Kitchen knife!

Edit - Just thinking back, I was only 21 myself then!

 

[Jack Black]

Secret’s in the sauce! When you run out of bbq sauce, simply make your own. No place like the South!

Looks tasty Jody, nice pic of your Lambsfoot too

 

[5K Qs]

I carry a lambsfoot ...

... because it has charms to soothe the savage breast!

How 'bout you?

- GT

 

[Half/Stop]

Beauties, Ron!

Thanks buddy!

 

[WhittlinAway]

Cool post my friend I am in the process of reading through the whole thread again, and noticed the post where that one was new, quite a long time ago now

Thanks Jack. Yes, that was more that two years ago, wasn't it? I knew I liked it then, but I could not have predicted how attached I've become to it.

 

[mpt]

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Splendid photo of the fruits of your lambsfoot's labors, M mpt !
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- GT

Thanks!

 

[Jack Black]

I carry a lambsfoot ...

... because it has charms to soothe the savage breast!

How 'bout you?

- GT

Wonderful pic GT

Thanks Jack. Yes, that was more that two years ago, wasn't it? I knew I liked it then, but I could not have predicted how attached I've become to it.

Yes, it would have been Greg Good to hear my friend

Friday is here! I hope everyone has had a good week, the weekend is nearly here

 

[dc50]

For a minute, I forgot that LF probably represents "lambsfoot" and thought you were using a much less charitable term (starting with "little") to describe the knife you were moving, Dave!

Gary, you've been hanging out with the students to long, thinking LF was off color, OMG!

 

[donn]

I was going to say that the horizontal seax carry makes me doubt Norman involvement, but I see they're gripping the seaxes, so they might or might not be slung that way.
The church of Sts Peter and Paul in Great Haseley has a transept that might be the original Saxon church. The village belonged to Edward the Confessor's Queen Edith, if memory serves.

That's a really interesting observation Jer. As far as I can see no one has ever referred to those knives as Seax's. It's a depiction of the Last Supper obviously and I think people have just assumed their holding table knives. The Normans did carve 'naive' carvings but their carvings were generally far more sophiscated.
This is the Norman font of St' Peter's church in the village of Langtoft in East Yorkshire. As you can see it's completely different in style.

Thanks, David. The watch still works, but I almost never carry it for fear of losing an heirloom.
100 consecutive miles of empty country seems quite spacious!!

Great pic of the Eye of Sauron, David! Mordor is looking more welcoming than I'd have imagined.

I will post another pic of my Man Jack, my lambsfoot carry for this week:
View attachment 1020900

- GT

Oh it's not that empty. There's farms, villages, a few A roads to cross, even a motorway. But in comparison to some parts it's still pretty empty.
And thanks for the compliment. It's not Mordor, it's the county of Lancashire. Though there's a certain Yorkshireman on this thread who I think would tell you there one and the same place...
Hope the Man Jack is serving you well this week.

Anyway. I carry a Lambsfoot...

Cos pork pies don't half themselves....

 

[Jack Black]

It's not Mordor, it's the county of Lancashire. Though there's a certain Yorkshireman on this thread who I think would tell you there one and the same place...

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Anyway. I carry a Lambsfoot...

Cos pork pies don't half themselves....

Superb pic my friend, very atmospheric Are you off anywhere this weekend?

 

[screened porch]

Jack Black , I can move this to Carl's Lounge if you like.

It's a depiction of the Last Supper

Now that you mention it, I can see they're at a table and their knife hands are resting on the table.

I read a paper which I lost in the transition from google books for free download to google books for reading in the cloud for a fee. It was a study of high status graves, which the author described as those containing a sword or a seax, but big knives didn't count as seaxes. Unfortunately, the author gave no clue as to how he decided which was which. Considering that there were schmall (?) seaxes and breit seaxes, as well as the insular broken-back seax which we all think is THE seax, the author's omission seems to me non-trivial. (I'd hate to think a big knife was a seax if it was found in a grave with other high-status-grave goods.)

Oakeshott illustrates a straight-backed machette-sized weapon dangling from someone's left side as a seax, and says it turned into the broken-back seax during the Viking age. And there was the Norwegian long seax that had a brief vogue in the 8th(?) century, which was a straight back-sword sometimes with a two-hand grip. O also says the description of Grettir the Strong's seax sounds like a Roman gladius, which spoils my desperate generalization that the only sure thing in a seax is a single edge.

Frustrating.

But a very cool old font.

And as long as I'm going on about seaxes, I'll mention that the Anglo-Saxon wills value the fetels of a seax as highly as the seax, and the fetels are thought from the context to be the carrying harness of the seax. And as long as I'm speculating, I'll speculate that fetel(s) was a variant of fell/pelt/felt, which I haven't looked up. Time I did, I guess.