Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Rufus1949]

Good morning all. May you all have your own market day adventures.
Afzelia burl

 

[SteveC]

Violet today



Barrett
Did you know the polymer notes, were invented in Australia & went into circulation in 1988.

Nice pics of Violet !

Good morning Guardians, I hope your week is going ok. I have to go over to Bradford again today. Some unusual climatic conditions have caused a 20 degree drop in temperature here, and we have some rain forecast too! Have a good day everyone

Have a good one Jack !

Stopped off at a “mountain” on the way home from a work trip up into the mallee. Managed a quick snap.
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Great picture Jack !

Good morning all. May you all have your own market day adventures.
Afzelia burl
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Wow !

 

[Rufus1949]

Wow !

My sentiments when I opened it up Steve.

 

[echoscout]

Good luck mate Thank you, it may be cooler today, but so far, it's sunny, and quite a nice day. Going over to Bradford adds about 3 hours to my day, and I'm pretty sure I could do it from home, but it's steady work. Hopefully, I'll be back home before 6pm

Thanks buddy. Hope you have a productive day

Good morning all. May you all have your own market day adventures.
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Mercy sakes Bob. I can't find words to describe the beauty of your knife.

 

[Rufus1949]

Thanks buddy. Hope you have a productive day

Mercy sakes Bob. I can't find words to describe the beauty of your knife.

Kind of you David.

 

[Onebigbill]

Beautiful HHB! I just have to comment because you're about the only person I've ever seen say Ruth's Chris correctly!! Hope your steak was amazing!!

Devine!

 

[Onebigbill]

A fine carry for tonite. What a great steak house. I go to the one in Princeton for special occasions. Enjoy.

Used to live in Bucks County PA and every Christmas went to McCardell theater at Princeton Univ for a play... A Christmas Carol. Played golf at Fiddler's Elbow in Bedminster, NJ not far from Princeton.

 

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[Rufus1949]

Used to live in Bucks County PA and every Christmas went to McCardell theater at Princeton Univ for a play... A Christmas Carol. Played golf at Fiddler's Elbow in Bedminster, NJ not far from Princeton.

It is a beautiful area. Fiddler's is still going strong.

 

[echoscout]

Morning Guardians! Neighbors cows are crying loudly this morning. Must be weaning the calves. Hope y'alls day goes good. Leon has me in a Rosewood mood. Giving the GL-24 a break and got HHB today.

 

[Rufus1949]

Morning Guardians! Neighbors cows are crying loudly this morning. Must be weaning the calves. Hope y'alls day goes good. Leon has me in a Rosewood mood. Giving the GL-24 a break and got HHB today.


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No.1 amongst the HHB's.

 

[SteveC]

Morning Guardians! Neighbors cows are crying loudly this morning. Must be weaning the calves. Hope y'alls day goes good. Leon has me in a Rosewood mood. Giving the GL-24 a break and got HHB today.


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Sweet !

 

[danno50]

Visiting my son and family in Wisconsin. Took a walk to a local coffee shop yesterday and ran into a group of turkeys. Not exactly in the middle of the city, but a good distance from the outskirts. Sorry, somehow inserted 2 of the second image and can't seem to get rid of it.

 

[SteveC]

Visiting my son and family in Wisconsin. Took a walk to a local coffee shop yesterday and ran into a group of turkeys. Not exactly in the middle of the city, but a good distance from the outskirts. Sorry, somehow inserted 2 of the second image and can't seem to get rid of it.

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Sweet Charlie Lamb !

 

[SteveC]

Good morning Guardians and happy hump day !


Carrying this Rodgers that was a kind gift from Bob

 

[5K Qs]

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Thanks GT! Not sure if Valley Jack is darkening there but maybe it has more of the lighter grain so will hold out longer?

That's my problem too -- too many "safe" places...

That's a possibility, Michael; my 2019 Guardians lambsfoot has quite a bit of the lighter, brighter grain, especially on the pile side.
Maybe you need a list of all your "safe places". (Of course, you'll want to keep that list in a safe place.).

G'day Guardians, hope you are having a great virtual Friday. Sure have enjoyed the break in the heat these past few days. Fall won't arrive here for a while (we're just being teased this week) but I'll take it. Jack Black hope your meetings and travels go your way.

Cool photo!
At first I wondered if that scaly, 2-tone bark indicated a sycamore tree, but then I noticed the tree across the sidewalk with the same bark, but multiple thin "trunks" and knew it wasn't sycamore. (Later, I think you identified the tree as crape myrtle which I hadn't heard of before.)

There were definitely some pronunciation questions in the dialect quiz, like whether or not you pronounce “pen” and “pin” the same, or how you pronounce the word “aunt.” That quiz was a lot of fun, but it’s unfortunately behind a paywall now.
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I received a surprise in the mail yesterday, a package from SteveC containing this lovely Sheffield-made Lambsfoot. Jack, you’ll have to forgive the open secondary blade this one time — I could deprive everyone from seeing that excellent OIL THE JOINTS tang stamp. The knife was recovered by @glennbad in Rosewood. Thanks again, Steve!

Thanks for the info about pronunciation in that quiz; sorry to hear it's not available to everyone anymore.
Congrats on the 2-blade lambsfoot!

You used to see commercials for those here, from a company called Jitterbug. I’m sure someone still offers the same sort of thing.

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My mom had a Lively (ETA: shows what I know -- that is a Jitterbug phone... my brother was the one that got it for her) flip phone. Looks straight out of the 90's but with big buttons. Works fine as a phone.

AARP Magazine still has full-page ads for Jitterbug phones, often right inside the front cover of the publication. I happened to have the June/July issue handy, and it has an ad inside the front cover for the Jitterbug flip2 that looks exactly like the one in Michael's photo; on page 73, there's a full-page ad for the Jitterbug smart4 smartphone with a simple large-print 6-item menu as home page. (Both versions look much more "powerful than the eTalk dumb phone I carry.)

Interesting fact, my knees have been injected with fluid originating from roosters comb.( hyaluronic acid)

That IS interesting, Bob! Does that make you feel like "the cock of the walk"? (Does anyone even use that phrase nowadays?)

What am I doing, being awake in the middle of the night? Oh yeah, I'm an old man.
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Sure, you're old, but you have a beautiful young wife knife!

Beautiful grain on that one, GT!

Great pics Gary

Valley Jack is a dandy

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Valley Jack is a looker

Jeremy, Jack, and David, thanks for the kind words.

It’s going to be a big weekend of watching football and grilling brats and burgers, and my favorite time of year. I hope you all have a great weekend!

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Cool photo of GL-24 and cat, Patrick!
Is that a photo of your knife on a photo of the cat, or some kind of Photoshop magic that merges 2 separate photos, or what?
I like to try to add knives to other photos I have, but with the limited software available to me, it's a very tedious and time-consuming process in which I strip the background from a knife photo as well as I can, then resize that "pure knife" and paste it onto the "target photo" (of cat or car or castle etc.).

Bob doesn’t feature in photos very often, leghorns aren’t the quietest chickens. This is him.
Mind the mess, it is on the list to tidy.
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Carrying the G.Butler today

Old Gnawbone



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Going to go with my Pals Lambsfoot tomorrow

Really like this new one from Max!
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Good morning Guardians !

Crisp and cool here this morning. I've got the Current lamb to warm things up


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Snakewood.
Go the Bloods!

I think I have 7 photos above, the first 5 of which seem kind of unusual to me in that the knives have handle shapes that were not very common to lambsfoot knives a few years ago when I was a regular participant here. Almost all of the lambsfoots I recall from "the old days" had swayback handles, except for Wright's senator pattern and Jack Black 's Harthead Barlow (examples in the last 2 photos above).
Is there a consensus among the Guardians about which handle shape(s) work best with lambsfoot blades??

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 - both part of the lucre received from winning Jack's 5000-page-lambfootery extravaganza!

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Go Guardians!!

Congrats on that splendid Bexoid Lamb!

One of the All Time Greats Buddy Holly was born on this day in 1936. Most people now would never had heard of him.

Tool Man and his pals are big fans I wonder if he picked up a Lambsfoot while he was in Sheffield? Stan Shaw made knives for The Crickets, who used to visit him I read an account by an old feller, who was saying a few of them were standing around in Sheffield early one evening, and this big tall bloke, walked up, grinning broadly, and chewing gum. He asked them the way to the City Hall, where he was playing. It was Buddy Holly

Thanks for the Buddy Holly trivia, Leon & Jack!
Coincidentally, the day Leon made his birthday post about Buddy Holly, I had listened to one of his hit songs, "Rave On", except what I heard was a cover done by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band:

Billy has been happy with his birthday haul this morning. No points for guessing the theme. Daniel’s got present opening duties.

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Looks like you, Billy, and the other boys could make lots of posts in the Toys and Traditional Knives thread, Jack!

- GT

 

[Rufus1949]

That IS interesting, Bob! Does that make you feel like "the cock of the walk"? (Does anyone even use that phrase nowadays?)


Sure, you're old, but you have a beautiful young wife knife!

That is a new phrase to me Gary. I walk more like I was born in the saddle, if you know what I mean.

Yes she is, and yes I do.

I enjoy all the variations, so I cannot help you Gary.

 

[birdsbeaks]

Is there a consensus among the Guardians about which handle shape(s) work best with lambsfoot blades??

Am I being presumptuous? Perhaps - and yet I'll go ahead and offer "swayback" anyhow.

Edited to say that the teardrop, a la Titusville's Old Man Jack, works fine for me but aesthetically, I'd still prefer some sway.

For me, the difference in use is most pronounced in tasks such as slicing a cucumber on a cutting board. With a well-engineered and executed swayback, I can take a pinch grip on the knife's pivot and cut straight down to the board. With a teardrop, and some other non-swayback handles, I'll find I need to cut straight down, and then pull the tip through the material towards me in order to get all the way through.

Congrats on that splendid Bexoid Lamb!

Thanks, GT!

 

[Fodderwing]

Dwight, that jigging is just soooo "off the charts!"

Thank you Jeff!

Stopped off at a “mountain” on the way home from a work trip up into the mallee. Managed a quick snap.
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Lovely image Jack.

Good morning all. May you all have your own market day adventures.
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Bob that renders one speechless! Did you send him the afzelia?

Morning Guardians! Neighbors cows are crying loudly this morning. Must be weaning the calves. Hope y'alls day goes good. Leon has me in a Rosewood mood. Giving the GL-24 a break and got HHB today.


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Super nice HHB David.

 

[Rufus1949]

Bob that renders one speechless! Did you send him the afzelia?

Thanks Dwight. I did send him the scales. It takes about 10 days to reach him. Most of my scales for the lambs were sent to him.