Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

Angry Waiter said:
Thank you David and Jack! 🩸🐑 is out and about this week. 👍🏻👍🏻

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Glad your carrying Blood Lamb 🐑 again 👍 🤠
SteveC said:
Double bonus with a shot of Cassie


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Good to see Cassie 👍🤠
screened porch said:
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OTW looking good in the sun 🌞 🐑👍🤠
cudgee said:
100 pages onto the next 5,000. :thumbsup:.

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Good pic 👍🤠
Tyson A Wright said:
The last little batch of peppers off our plants this year was not enough to do anything with, but we're not going to throw them out.

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So we hit the local farmer's market this morning and I stocked up on a bunch of different peppers.

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I chopped the tops off, blended them smooth with apple cider vinegar and pinch of salt, then cooked them for a bit.

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After straining, the sauce got a bit more salt then will sit in the fridge for a week or so before use. (I tasted it, and it's mildly hot but really delicious - so more a flavor sauce than a hot sauce.)

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I put some potatoes, onion, and chicken thighs in a crockpot and dumped the sludge that was stained on top of it. Looking forward to dinner tonight!

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Yummy 👍🤠
5K Qs said:
Last day for Valley Jack on his current turn as Lambsfoot of the Week. Couple of pics from 2022.
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Valley Jack is a looker 🐑 👍 🤠
 
Fodderwing said:
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Dang, you got one of the Jumbo XXL HHBs, too? I obviously missed the memo. 🫤🤣

waynorth said:
Thanks, Barrett!! The other side ain't bad either!! 😁 View attachment 2655439
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Yep, not too shabby. 😁

Jack Black said:
A few days ago, I received a message from Hatchet_Jack Hatchet_Jack , asking me about the origins of the Hartshead Barlow. I referred him to the search facility and to the Thread Index, linked to from post 1, but realised that recent changes to the search function make finding information posted that far back difficult. I still get messages fairly regularly about their knives, so here's a little about their origins, for those who don't know.

I produced a number of SFOs for the Guardians, which were not only non-profit, they were actually subsidised, so that folks could get hold of a good quality Lambsfoot at a reasonable price. The Hartshead Barlow was produced, in Sheffield, in 2019, and made available to Guardians via my email list. The following is taken from the first email I sent out:

Presenting The Hartshead Barlow!

In the year 1654, a young lad, no more than a child, came to Sheffield from nearby Rotherham, to commence an apprenticeship with cutler John Courtnall. After thirteen years learning the trade, the young man registered his ‘freedom’, and mark, with the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire. His name was Obadiah Barlow, and he and his descendants would give their name to the most famous pocket knife pattern in history. Obadiah set up his home and workshop in the small Hartshead district of Sheffield, close to the parish church, where knives were produced that are still talked about today. Some of the earliest Barlow knives had a blade shape very similar to what would later become known as the Lambsfoot, but the Lambsfoot did not evolve as a distinct blade shape until the latter half of the 19th century. The popularity of this versatile blade soon grew, and no later than the early 20th century, it was married to the Barlow knife, becoming a mainstay of Sheffield cutlers.

...The knives have been handmade by a single cutler, using traditional Sheffield cutlery methods. They are built on a straight ‘Candle-end’ frame, with a steel Barlow bolster, stamped both sides with the ‘AW&S’ mark, steel liners, and a swaged Lambsfoot blade, bearing a ‘Hartshead Barlow’ etch. Covers are either Rosewood or vintage Sambar Stag.

The knives are accompanied by a handmade pocket-slip made from vintage Yorkshire woollen cloth, produced between the two World Wars. There is also a special button/pin/badge. The knife and accessories are housed in a quality re-useable stainless steel tin.

For historical reasons, I'll give the original prices, which were £58 for the Rosewood model, and £77 for the Stag

In total, 21 were made with Rosewood covers, and 77 with Sambar stag. There were also 2 additional knives, with a file-worked back-spring, one of which I have.

I had hoped to produce further Hartshead Barlow runs, but unfortunately that was made impossible.

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Always nice to re-read about those, and I always forget there were only 21 of the Rosewood!

Jack Black said:
Tool Man buys cheap Ruskie type quartz pocket watches from eBay. He insists they are the best watches money can buy. They come with various tacky designs embossed on the back. He was trying to persuade me I should buy one, and when I told him what I thought about the tacky designs, he told me there was one with wolves on, as if that was absolute class! 😁 I said, "Those aren't wolves, they're Alsatians (German Shepherds). When me and Tool Man were young, 'Alsatian' dogs were de rigeur with the sort of people who later progressed to pit-bulls and smoking a substance that rhymes with back. Since, the classic run-down housing project in Leeds is Gipton, I dubbed the watch 'The Gipton Special'! 🤣 I know Tool Man hates me saying this, so every time he is showing somebody his watch, I ask, "Is that The Gipton Special?" Just to see him wince! I then add a line of "The Gipton Special's coming down the line..." Tool Man hates it, which of course makes it all the more amusing!! 🤣🤣👍
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You should get him one of these to wear when he carries The Gipton Special. 😁

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birdsbeaks said:
Ahoy Guardians! Trimming the tree in my front yard has really taken it out of me, so I'm taking a couple days off and resting up with two new additions to the permanent collection: An incredible slip from our very own @sbh06 and a stainless TEW lamb wearing rugged Bexoid pants from our also very own Señor Jack Black Jack Black - both part of the lucre received from winning Jack's 5000-page-lambfootery extravaganza!

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My dad and his GF flew to Quebec to catch a cruise down the North American continent's eastern coast, which has tagged me in for cat-feeding duties. Before you get all excited, there aren't any cat pics, and my dad's cat "Glammy" looks pretty rangy even on her best day - not very photogenic as far as cats go.

What my dad and his GF do have, in lieu of a photogenic cat, are the home decor and design sensibilities of a commune of mystic, new-age, incorrigibly metaphysical yet financially comfortable, hippies - so I used some of their stuff as props. Since I'm not being compensated for feeding the cat, I'll chalk the photographic liberties up as my fee.

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In case you missed my post in the giveaway thread, here's a shot of the astoundingly generous prize pack in all its considerable glory:

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Go Guardians!!
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Nice pics! :thumbsup:

Tyson A Wright said:
The last little batch of peppers off our plants this year was not enough to do anything with, but we're not going to throw them out.

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So we hit the local farmer's market this morning and I stocked up on a bunch of different peppers.

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I chopped the tops off, blended them smooth with apple cider vinegar and pinch of salt, then cooked them for a bit.

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After straining, the sauce got a bit more salt then will sit in the fridge for a week or so before use. (I tasted it, and it's mildly hot but really delicious - so more a flavor sauce than a hot sauce.)

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I put some potatoes, onion, and chicken thighs in a crockpot and dumped the sludge that was stained on top of it. Looking forward to dinner tonight!

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That sauce sounds good, Tyson. :thumbsup: Although I can’t actually try it myself, I’m going to go ahead and give the Guardians of the Condiments Seal of Approval anyways. 😁

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(I should’ve had some of those done when I had the other stickers made.) 😁

Jakeywax31 said:
Cosimo #3 for my shift tonight. Cowboys have their first game of the season tomorrow. The let down begins 😂😂. I will be rooting hard nonetheless.
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As an Arkansas Razorback fan, I know exactly how you feel. 🙄🤣 Your Cosimo is looking good. :thumbsup:

Chicago-style deep dish pizza for dinner tonight, and my first Oktoberfest of the year.

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btb01 said:
You should get him one of these to wear when he carries The Gipton Special. 😁

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When my wife found out that those are still being made, she laughed her head off. Then bought one for herself and another one for me. They get used as PJs around here. #cheesyforthewin

btb01 said:
That sauce sounds good, Tyson. :thumbsup: Although I can’t actually try it myself, I’m going to go ahead and give the Guardians of the Condiments Seal of Approval anyways. 😁

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(I should’ve had some of those done when I had the other stickers made.) 😁
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Here's hopin' it lives up to the Guardians of the Condiments seal of approval!
 
Jack Black said:
Hope you're enjoying the pattern Steve 😊👍
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I am, very much. 😇👍
Hatchet_Jack said:
I was tempted to get one of their 45-120’s but lot of coin and can’t load from the muzzle 😁
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ummm ... the .45-120 is a black powder cartride round, like the origional .45-70.
I think the .45-120's full name is ".45-120-500"; .45 calibr, 120 graind FFg powder, and a 500 grain bullet. Tho it might have had a slightly heavier bullet from the factory.
It can be loaded with a lighter bullet of course. Any .458" bullet will work.

I don't know if smokeles loads have been developed for it.

(the modern factory smokeless .45-70-405 and .35-70-350 are loaded to pressures under what the black powder cartridges produced, to make them safe to use in the many origional Trapdoor Springfield rifles still in use.)

With black powder cartridges, the third number when used is the bullet weight in grains.

The .30-40 Kraig and veneralble .30-06 were never a black powder cartridge.
I forget what the "40" of the Kraig stands for. The "06" of the 30-06 is the year it was adopted for military service. There was a dimentionally identical .30-02 cartridge that was adopted in 1902. The only differance is the bullet. The 02 used a flat based round nose bullet.
The 06 uses a boat tail spitzer bullet.


A 02 and 06 cartridge are interchangeable and can be used in either arm.


The brass is rather hard to find these days, and expensive when/if you do.
 
afishhunter said:
I am, very much. 😇👍

ummm ... the .45-120 is a black powder cartride round,
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I know it’s a BP round but it still can’t be loaded from the muzzle!

I know a guy that has one and wanted to offload it along with brass and projectiles. Offered it to me but while tempting I'm more interested in muzzleloaders.
 
Hatchet_Jack said:
I know it’s a BP round but it still can’t be loaded from the muzzle!

I know a guy that has one and wanted to offload it along with brass and projectiles. Offered it to me but while tempting I'm more interested in muzzleloaders.
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ahh.
Sorry, I misread your earlier statement.
 
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