Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Hatchet_Jack]

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Lovely knife, I really dig the fluted bolsters.

Wow...fall just showed up.
First tee on course.
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Fall/autumn is truly the greatest time of the year!

I’ve always thought those Waynorth lambs were beauties, yours is no exception

 

[Rufus1949]

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Must be hard to chose from your great collection Dwight.

This is our shop cat Butty, she’s an excellent mouse catcher. We’ve never spelled her name out before so I’m officially calling her Butty, and so is everyone else, they just don’t know it! Have a good one Guardians!

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Chip Butty is looking pensive, wondering if that sweet knife is his.

Lovely knife, I really dig the fluted bolsters.



Fall/autumn is truly the greatest time of the year!

I’ve always thought those Waynorth lambs were beauties, yours is no exception

It is a great season when in arrives to stay for awhile Jack.

 

[unclekurty]

Butty is a handsome feline. Happy Market Day. I look forward to Jack’s report. Back to my GL-24 today. Such a handy blade.

Earlier this week I felt like trying some spam. I avoid the big grocery stores here like Safeway. The self check deal bothers me. Having to wait in line because they don’t have enough checkers annoys me. I’m not taking it anymore. We have some great smaller stores I go to instead. But some are on the healthy food side. I asked if they had Spam. I kinda knew they wouldn’t. The employee was very nice but of course they didn’t. They do have a large section devoted to homeopathy stuff…King Charles would like this store even without Spam. I have to yell at some clouds now.

 

[Jack Black]

Hope your night and tomorrow go good buddy

Thank you David

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Cool pic

Speaking my language Jack. Love sharp ginger beer and spirits.

I might have to take a break for a while Mitch, walking round my neighbourhood, there are a lot of folks still suffering from Carnival!

Hungarian “tanker” prop today. Have a great one all.

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Interesting pic buddy Did you ever fire a CZ Skorpion?

Have a good evening.. or morning!

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Aren't they beautifully made?

A new friend

Sweet

Goodnight all...

What a beauty! Great shot Dwight

That's not a dead bird under the firewood, it's some stuffing (rolled in dirt and dead grass) from a dog toy that was smuggled outside.

Double Lamb content. Lambs looking over a Lamb. .

Cool pic Leon

Honestly, the F&F isn't the worst, but it is underwhelming. The different sized bolsters is my main gripe, along with the spring not being flush in open or closed position. Comparing it to a French or Italian knife of the same price, it's a loser.

Sadly, there isn't any upgrade in F & F between the least expensive knives in the range, and the dearest

Pere David is impressive if you read about the deer themselves. I did a small research project on them back in my university days. All but went extinct. England had at one point the only herd left in existence if memory serves me well. I also recall that the genetic bottleneck was such that it’s anticipated one day they will no longer be able to breed and then will go extinct. They’re an old world deer which have a few unique features not observed in other deer.

No you’re not, you pay good money for a knife I think it’s fair to have reasonable expectations. I’ve been disappointed with some of the more expensive knives I’ve bought.

Wright's Pere David used to all come from one estate. Sadly, they had an accident getting down the cellar steps, and are no more!

Very interesting what you wrote about the Pere David Deer. Something I have never even considered, but I'm intrigued! I have read that the same condition is affecting the German people!

I am disappointed with the overall F&F but I still do really like the knife. As odd and potentially unattractive the covers are, it almost reminds me of marrow bone.

Here's the pile side

You sometimes get that with Sambar too, very attractive The Sheffield cutlers were very badly affected by the Indian government's export ban on Sambar, but they are an unimaginative lot, I don't know why they didn't look to importing it from Australia, for example

Afternoon all
It works,

Root beer is definitely popular here, and there are seemingly hundreds of brands, from big names to smaller mom-and-pop operations. A lot of breweries (you know, the kind that brew actual beer) also make their own root beer. I do like root beer, though some are certainly better than others, and I’ve had a few that weren’t great.

About 40 minutes from where we live, kind of out in the middle of nowhere, there’s a huge candy store (I posted about it here last year; worth a look if you haven’t seen it, it’s an eccentric place). In addition to candy and all sorts of other stuff, they have a huge selection of different sodas. This wall is just root beer and sarsaparilla (and there was more in a couple large coolers that I didn’t get a pic of).

That's quite a selection Barrett The stuff I find locally is brewed for the West Indian market, and really sweet

I had to read that twice. I thought you were insulting the man!

I grew up watching Ben Hall mate!

That’s an interesting bit of history, Jack. I wonder how that compares to the soda fountains that were popular here in the first half of the 20th century.

It was the early 1980's when I visited Barrett, certainly no later than '84 or '85, and you could see it had changed over the years, there was a pin ball table for example. The rest of it though, looked to be more or less as it might have been 50 or more years before, with a basic bar counter, and stools, plus a few tables. It was only a small place, but there lots of them at one time. Temperance was a massive movement at one time, though I think far more people signed the pledge than ever stuck to it, and there were almost always a lot of Methodists in the city. I say, 'almost always', because on the first occasion John Wesley visited, the house he was staying in was attacked, and he was lucky to escape in one piece Of course, Sheffield also had a reputation as the most hard-drinking place in the Kingdom, with more pubs than anywhere else in the land!

Root beer can definitely be quite sweet (some of them are way too sweet), but I enjoy it every once in a while. Dandelion & burdock actually reminded me a bit of root beer or sarsaparilla when I’ve had it.

I've only had the sweet root beer I'm afraid, but D & B definitely reminds me of sarsaparilla. Talking of which...

Being a transplanted southerner living in Minnesota, my biggest complaint about root beer is hearing Minnesotans pronounce the word “root” like it rhymes with “foot.”

That sounds like a 'scone' moment!

Evening all
Had to go the shops. Kristy needed a new work laptop, the old was dropped at work yesterday.

Oh no! I've spent the afternoon trying to set up a new phone, which gets more complicated every time I do it

It's led an adventurous life Jer

Wow...fall just showed up.
First tee on course.
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Beautiful photos Bob

Had an agronomy trial tour today 3hrs from home. Tomorrow Han is heading couple hours down the road for a baby scan so I’m home with the boys. Always fun!.
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That's a lot of roos Jack!

Morning Guardians! Hope y'all have a good day. Going to hot again today.


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Hope you can find some shade David

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Sweet pile side pic Dwight

This is our shop cat Butty, she’s an excellent mouse catcher. We’ve never spelled her name out before so I’m officially calling her Butty, and so is everyone else, they just don’t know it! Have a good one Guardians!

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Great name!

 

[Jack Black]

Butty is a handsome feline. Happy Market Day. I look forward to Jack’s report. Back to my GL-24 today. Such a handy blade.

Earlier this week I felt like trying some spam. I avoid the big grocery stores here like Safeway. The self check deal bothers me. Having to wait in line because they don’t have enough checkers annoys me. I’m not taking it anymore. We have some great smaller stores I go to instead. But some are on the healthy food side. I asked if they had Spam. I kinda knew they wouldn’t. The employee was very nice but of course they didn’t. They do have a large section devoted to homeopathy stuff…King Charles would like this store even without Spam. I have to yell at some clouds now.

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LOL! I share your irritation my friend, I won't use those darned self-scanners either! Nice pic of your GL-24

 

[Jack Black]

Good afternoon Guardians, it's just coming up to 4pm here, and I hope everyone is having a good day. I was able to get down to the market for the morning, but had quite a lot of errands to run while I was down there, paying bills at the nearby post office, buying bread, etc. Tool Man had actually shelled out for his favourite 'school slab' when I arrived, though he did eat almost all of it! Gravel treated us to sausage rolls, and I stumped up for doughnuts, and apple pie, so we had a bit of a feast.

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We were short on visitors, but Barry The Original Ted called in, along with Sheepshead Dave, who hasn't been down in a bit. Old Shirley also visited, bringing the custard doughnuts Tool Man is fond of. I often joke with new parents, that the first 25 years are the hardest, but Shirley still has her 2 feckless sons at home, and they are in their 60's! Slimline Scott and his brother are both still with their parents, long after one might have expected them to fly the coop With things to do, I left just as Gravel arrived with a triple portion of mushroom bhajis, and yoghurt sauce, some of which is plastered on Tool Man's face in the photo below. He looks like he's been caught out eating them all (which he almost certainly did)!

 

[Jack Black]

The GL-24 cats a long shadow!

 

[pat9198]

Great shot showing off that crosscut !

Thank you!

Chip Butty is looking pensive, wondering if that sweet knife is his.

She just wanted some scratches, which I was happy to provide!

Aren't they beautifully made?

They really are, and photogenic as well, just as your pics today prove!

Great name!

She's a sweetie pie.

 

[AusLoX]

Wow...fall just showed up.
First tee on course.
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The elusive Waynorth Lamb! Beautiful

 

[AusLoX]

Good afternoon Guardians, it's just coming up to 4pm here, and I hope everyone is having a good day. I was able to get down to the market for the morning, but had quite a lot of errands to run while I was down there, paying bills at the nearby post office, buying bread, etc. Tool Man had actually shelled out for his favourite 'school slab' when I arrived, though he did eat almost all of it! Gravel treated us to sausage rolls, and I stumped up for doughnuts, and apple pie, so we had a bit of a feast.

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We were short on visitors, but Barry The Original Ted called in, along with Sheepshead Dave, who hasn't been down in a bit. Old Shirley also visited, bringing the custard doughnuts Tool Man is fond of. I often joke with new parents, that the first 25 years are the hardest, but Shirley still has her 2 feckless sons at home, and they are in their 60's! Slimline Scott and his brother are both still with their parents, long after one might have expected them to fly the coop With things to do, I left just as Gravel arrived with a triple portion of mushroom bhajis, and yoghurt sauce, some of which is plastered on Tool Man's face in the photo below. He looks like he's been caught out eating them all (which he almost certainly did)!

I love these stories at the market

 

[5K Qs]

OK, I've given up; I can't catch up in this thread!
So I just found posts that addressed me directly and will respond to those.
Then I'll see if, by starting today (or maybe yesterday), I can keep up for awhile.

Great pics Gary !

Lovely black beauty

That fly has very good taste GT!

Thanks for the kind comments about Black Jack, Steve & David & Dwight.
Dwight, the fly was quite lethargic, too, since I always have my camera set on a 2-second shutter delay and the fly didn't move away in that time.

LOL GT
Gracias mi amigo !

I am afraid all that experience with feral creatures was of no help this time lol

My strategy was to guess/count the number of beans on the uppermost layer.
I then I guessed the number of "layers" that it would take to go all the way to the lowest one.
I then guessed that each layer would have about 10 beans less than the previous upper one.
I added it all up and "BINGO"
As you see I did an awful lot of "guessing" lol



Oh no worries at all GT, apology accepted

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Hello Guardians !
Today we crossed the border into the good old and brought home to a very beautiful lamb !
An incredible knife from a very generous Guardian !
Muchisimas gracias Rufus1949 !

An amazing brand new lamb with great action, centering, jigging and looks !
I will treasure it 4ever !

Maybe 5K Qs was right then
All the experience counting seeds for my feral friends perhaps did help after all

Hey Chickadees ! I am coming over!
I’ve got something really nice to show you

Sounds like a good estimation procedure, Dan. It certainly worked for you; congrats on the pristine prize!

Very good Gary It's nice to see Black Jack

Thank you very much Gary, I've had it about a week now, and it's been hogging my pocket ever since it arrived Cool goat pics

Thanks for the encouragement, Jack.

Thanks Gary. The slip was a pleasant surprise from England.

Thanks Gary and cool Goat pics !

Thanks for reminding me of the goat herds for rent, Steve.

I once got turned around in east Jerusalm in 02. tensions were high at that time. The pucker factor was high. I had my compass with me so finally got things sorted

Sounds like a less than ideal situation, David.

Thanks y'all. Your kind words are appreciated.

My weekend is over so it's back to work for Jake and I.

Good old Jake
Looks wide awake!

I've got a rosewood HHB with me, so I'll post an old photo of same:


- GT

 

[Rufus1949]

The elusive Waynorth Lamb! Beautiful

One I cherish.

 

[Rufus1949]

Good afternoon Guardians, it's just coming up to 4pm here, and I hope everyone is having a good day. I was able to get down to the market for the morning, but had quite a lot of errands to run while I was down there, paying bills at the nearby post office, buying bread, etc. Tool Man had actually shelled out for his favourite 'school slab' when I arrived, though he did eat almost all of it! Gravel treated us to sausage rolls, and I stumped up for doughnuts, and apple pie, so we had a bit of a feast.

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We were short on visitors, but Barry The Original Ted called in, along with Sheepshead Dave, who hasn't been down in a bit. Old Shirley also visited, bringing the custard doughnuts Tool Man is fond of. I often joke with new parents, that the first 25 years are the hardest, but Shirley still has her 2 feckless sons at home, and they are in their 60's! Slimline Scott and his brother are both still with their parents, long after one might have expected them to fly the coop With things to do, I left just as Gravel arrived with a triple portion of mushroom bhajis, and yoghurt sauce, some of which is plastered on Tool Man's face in the photo below. He looks like he's been caught out eating them all (which he almost certainly did)!

All is good in the world again.

 

[SteveC]

Morning Guardians! Hope y'all have a good day. Going to hot again today.



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Stay cool buddy !

This is our shop cat Butty, she’s an excellent mouse catcher. We’ve never spelled her name out before so I’m officially calling her Butty, and so is everyone else, they just don’t know it! Have a good one Guardians!

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Love the name !

Butty is a handsome feline. Happy Market Day. I look forward to Jack’s report. Back to my GL-24 today. Such a handy blade.

Earlier this week I felt like trying some spam. I avoid the big grocery stores here like Safeway. The self check deal bothers me. Having to wait in line because they don’t have enough checkers annoys me. I’m not taking it anymore. We have some great smaller stores I go to instead. But some are on the healthy food side. I asked if they had Spam. I kinda knew they wouldn’t. The employee was very nice but of course they didn’t. They do have a large section devoted to homeopathy stuff…King Charles would like this store even without Spam. I have to yell at some clouds now.

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Don't yell too hard or they might yell back

Good afternoon Guardians, it's just coming up to 4pm here, and I hope everyone is having a good day. I was able to get down to the market for the morning, but had quite a lot of errands to run while I was down there, paying bills at the nearby post office, buying bread, etc. Tool Man had actually shelled out for his favourite 'school slab' when I arrived, though he did eat almost all of it! Gravel treated us to sausage rolls, and I stumped up for doughnuts, and apple pie, so we had a bit of a feast.

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We were short on visitors, but Barry The Original Ted called in, along with Sheepshead Dave, who hasn't been down in a bit. Old Shirley also visited, bringing the custard doughnuts Tool Man is fond of. I often joke with new parents, that the first 25 years are the hardest, but Shirley still has her 2 feckless sons at home, and they are in their 60's! Slimline Scott and his brother are both still with their parents, long after one might have expected them to fly the coop With things to do, I left just as Gravel arrived with a triple portion of mushroom bhajis, and yoghurt sauce, some of which is plastered on Tool Man's face in the photo below. He looks like he's been caught out eating them all (which he almost certainly did)!

Thanks for the report

The GL-24 cats a long shadow!

Cool picture !

I've got a rosewood HHB with me, so I'll post an old photo of same:


- GT

Cool pic Gary !

 

[SteveC]

Carrying this old Taylor today

 

[AusLoX]

Not a GL-24 but I feel like part of the crew

 

[Jack Black]

They really are, and photogenic as well, just as your pics today prove!


She's a sweetie pie.

That's very kind of you Pat She sure is

I love these stories at the market

Sorry there wasn't more to tell today, but if I can find it, I'll post an old pic of Tool Man and Sheepshead Dave

I've got a rosewood HHB with me, so I'll post an old photo of same:


- GT

Interesting photo Gary

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All is good in the world again.

LOL! Sorry my visit was brief today

Thanks for the report

A pleasure Steve

Carrying this old Taylor today


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That looks like an old one

Not a GL-24 but I feel like part of the crew
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It's a nice one

 

[btb01]

Evening all
Had to go the shops. Kristy needed a new work laptop, the old was dropped at work yesterday.

The color of the micarta looks great with your coffee there! Sorry to hear about the laptop!

Wow...fall just showed up.
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Beautiful sunrise, Bob! That Waynorth Lambsfoot ain’t too shabby, either.

This is our shop cat Butty, she’s an excellent mouse catcher. We’ve never spelled her name out before so I’m officially calling her Butty, and so is everyone else, they just don’t know it! Have a good one Guardians!

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I could use Butty in our garage! Thankfully the mice we occasionally get in there still haven’t figured out that they shouldn’t eat the peanut butter off the contraption in the corner that killed their friends.

That's quite a selection Barrett The stuff I find locally is brewed for the West Indian market, and really sweet

They have an even larger selection of other sodas (“cokes” as we’d call ‘em where I grew up, Minnesotans would probably say “pops”). All this, and no D&B.

It was the early 1980's when I visited Barrett, certainly no later than '84 or '85, and you could see it had changed over the years, there was a pin ball table for example. The rest of it though, looked to be more or less as it might have been 50 or more years before, with a basic bar counter, and stools, plus a few tables. It was only a small place, but there lots of them at one time. Temperance was a massive movement at one time, though I think far more people signed the pledge than ever stuck to it, and there were almost always a lot of Methodists in the city. I say, 'almost always', because on the first occasion John Wesley visited, the house he was staying in was attacked, and he was lucky to escape in one piece Of course, Sheffield also had a reputation as the most hard-drinking place in the Kingdom, with more pubs than anywhere else in the land!

I’ll take a Sheffield pub over a temperance bar any day.

I’ve only had the sweet root beer I'm afraid, but D & B definitely reminds me of sarsaparilla. Talking of which...

I’m jealous!

That sounds like a 'scone' moment!

Good afternoon Guardians, it's just coming up to 4pm here, and I hope everyone is having a good day. I was able to get down to the market for the morning, but had quite a lot of errands to run while I was down there, paying bills at the nearby post office, buying bread, etc. Tool Man had actually shelled out for his favourite 'school slab' when I arrived, though he did eat almost all of it! Gravel treated us to sausage rolls, and I stumped up for doughnuts, and apple pie, so we had a bit of a feast.

That does sound like a feast, Jack. And Tool Man chipped in?! Did he win the lottery or something? Maybe keep an eye out for other signs… (Just kidding, Tool Man doesn’t strike me as the type who would handle a windfall with reserve or moderation).

I hope the GL-24 did a good job cutting the cake.

We were short on visitors, but Barry The Original Ted called in, along with Sheepshead Dave, who hasn't been down in a bit. Old Shirley also visited, bringing the custard doughnuts Tool Man is fond of. I often joke with new parents, that the first 25 years are the hardest, but Shirley still has her 2 feckless sons at home, and they are in their 60's! Slimline Scott and his brother are both still with their parents, long after one might have expected them to fly the coop With things to do, I left just as Gravel arrived with a triple portion of mushroom bhajis, and yoghurt sauce, some of which is plastered on Tool Man's face in the photo below. He looks like he's been caught out eating them all (which he almost certainly did)!

Tool Man looks like a raccoon who got caught eating out of a trash can.

I've got a rosewood HHB with me, so I'll post an old photo of same:

I like that pic, GT.

I came across this video from 1970 earlier today, and thought some of you might find it interesting. The kid in the striped shirt is clearly stressed out about inflation; I doubt he’s feeling much better about it these days.

I wonder if any of these kids spent some of their pocket money on a Lambsfoot?

 

[Fodderwing]

Lovely knife, I really dig the fluted bolsters.

Thanks Jack. Perhaps you may remember a fellow Guardian named Harvey - he went by Cigarrodog. Harvey had a magnificent collection of vintage lambs. Sadly he passed away a while back. A great loss to the forum in general and this thread in particular. He was a very special fellow and a masterful photographer. As time went by his lambs began to show up on the "big river" site. When this wonderful old lamb appeared I immediately recognized it and was able to make the highest bid. So, the point I'm making is that this beautiful lambsfoot has much greater value to all of us here having been one of his prized lambs. There were several others "rescued" off the "big river" site by other guardians who recognized them.

 

[Jack Black]

They have an even larger selection of other sodas (“cokes” as we’d call ‘em where I grew up, Minnesotans would probably say “pops”). All this, and no D&B.

Wow! Shame about the lack of D&B though

I’ll take a Sheffield pub over a temperance bar any day.

Yeah, me too mate! It's actually quite a while since I was last in one though!

I’m jealous!

Sorry pal I did discover that I have been paying way over the odds for D&B at the market chippy. Normally, I'm buying food at the same time, but today, I just bought a can of D&B - £1.75!! That's twice what anyone else charges, so I'll be going elsewhere in future

That does sound like a feast, Jack. And Tool Man chipped in?! Did he win the lottery or something? Maybe keep an eye out for other signs… (Just kidding, Tool Man doesn’t strike me as the type who would handle a windfall with reserve or moderation).

Well, what actually happened was that Tool Man bought himself his favourite cake before anyone else arrived, and ate over half of it before me and Gravel turned up (Boring Ray is diabetic, so could be relied on not to eat any). We were both a bit later than usual, so his greed even overcame his tight-fistedness! It's a good job that Tool Man doesn't DO the lottery, because I don't think he'd outlast a substantial windfall by more than a few months!

I hope the GL-24 did a good job cutting the cake.

It was perfect my friend

Tool Man looks like a raccoon who got caught eating out of a trash can.

I came across this video from 1970 earlier today, and thought some of you might find it interesting. The kid in the striped shirt is clearly stressed out about inflation; I doubt he’s feeling much better about it these days.

I wonder if any of these kids spent some of their pocket money on a Lambsfoot?

"More important things than pocket money"? That's what my dad thought too!