The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Thank you, Jack and Dwight! Diego is off to work with me today.
Morning Guardians! Good flock of Lambs out this morning. Jack you might need to do som lollygagging this weekend to rest up. Hope everyone has a good weekend. Circumstances kept me from goin to the rodeo last night. Maybe I can cowboy up and make it tonight
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Very cool with the stamp!
Lovely image Jack!Thank you my friend, I'm reminded I'm overdue some barefoot walking on wet sand
Thanks Steve
Beautiful photo
Thanks Pete, me too
Wow, fantastic Barrett, what a great souvenir
Poor HannahStill, that's a nice way for you and Billy to start the weekend mate
Cool pic Mitch
Wonderful post Tyson
Good morning Guardians, I hope you're all well, and with a fantastic weekend ahead of you. I'm feeling tired today, but hopefully a couple of cups of Charlie's coffee will pick me upI'm not sure what has happened at the cafe, but while everyone is still on very friendly terms, Anna and Fabrizio were given a month's holiday after the Carnival, and Hisham and Sara are both back full-time. I haven't asked, but Hisham said that he thought he really needed to come back, and I agreed that was the case. I suspect that having worked alongside them at the Carnival for several days, Hisham became aware that his friends really weren't up to effectively running the place
Since everyone speaks English now, my Italian may be suffering, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make!
Wishing everyone a great Saturday, and hopefully I'll have more time next week, now that my work project is over
Glorious horn Dwight.
Stealth Lamb
Thank you Steve
Hope you enjoy your walk Bill, cool pic
Nice choice JeffThank you, Jack and Dwight! Diego is off to work with me today.
I reckon so David, I'm beat!Morning Guardians! Good flock of Lambs out this morning. Jack you might need to do som lollygagging this weekend to rest up. Hope everyone has a good weekend. Circumstances kept me from goin to the rodeo last night. Maybe I can cowboy up and make it tonight
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Nice pic there
Me too, sorry you missed it last night David
Cool pics Steve
That's annoying Bob
Thankfully short-lived
Many thanks my friend
Cool pic Dwight
A friend of mine bought an Austin A35 with a similar plate. He sold the plate for more than the Ā£35 he paid for the car! 
Me neither Bob!
I used to work on them when I first left school, and do not have fond memories of doing so
Steve , thanks kindly.
That is an absolutely beautiful piece
The problem is, I cannot duplicate procedure. Will finagle with it.That's annoying Bob.
Me neither Bob!
My TR 6 was a nightmare in damp weather. Finally changed over to an electronic ignition, and all was good.
Thanks Bob. True that amigo!
Thanks Steve. Hope your AC is coming along.
Thank you Jack.
Much obliged! It really is a beauty.
92Ā°F and 67% humidity. The weather girl says it feels like 108Ā°F. I say it feels like defeat. People look downtrodden, beaten, spent. Even in their cars with the A/C on, you can tell they understand it's only a temporary reprieve. A thin pane of safety glass and an overworked compressor, all that contain the deluge of sweat eager to burst forth from desperate, sunburned brows.
In Miami, we know The Second Law of Thermodynamics. We know it well. It comes to Christmas celebrations at our homes. It likes ham.
As much as I'd like to stay inside until January or so, my dad insists that his cat needs daily feedings. He lives just a mile away (1.609344 kilometers... kilometres... uh...km...good) but in this weather, any exertion at all feels like swimming for your life through thick, hot molasses. As my father's place is ripe with novel photographic opportunities, I figured I'd make the most of having to go and packed up three recent lamb arrivals (two just showed up yesterday!), remembered I don't have a space suit - so didn't put one on, and stepped face first into the free-range outdoor steam room I call home.
By the time I arrived (4 minutes); I was sweaty, uninspired, and just wanted to go back home but I had three (3!) lambs in my pockets and a phone with a camera built in. "Aw hell" I thought, along with "Might as well."
I found the shadow Rodgers and stag A. Wright (I'm guessing - the only mark being "SHEFFIELD" over "ENGLAND" on the mark side tang) Senator (whoever said it was a stupid name is right in my book...) for a song. A short and not very good one even. Crowning the stack is the Taylor's Eyewitness Jack sent which accompanies me most places lately.
The Rodgers is poorly centered but lightweight and functional. Even if these were produced to cut costs, I feel like they stumbled onto something practical and maybe even elegant in a way. I'm incredibly interested in what it looks like under the covers but not enough to go prying around inside.
The Senator (groan) is much nicer than I expected. Perfect pull, usable and pocketable size, good heft - the only strikes against it are one of the most "meh" stag pile sides I've ever seen and the mirror-polished blade - I am opposed to mirror polishes, especially on what I consider to be "working" patterns. Not shown is some very fancy work on the spring and liners - a first for me. I thought the pile side was so "ick" that I decided to photograph it.
While at my dad's, I took the opportunity to rummage through his stuff, found the (bone-covered, I believe) pocket knife he accidentally left on the roof for a decade, and took some pictures of it. As it's not a lamb, it isn't suitable for display here, but an interesting find nonetheless. If you're intrigued, I should be posting those pics in another thread in the near future. Ten years of South Florida sun is a caustic brew and I have proof! I don't advise reattempting that experiment with any lambs!
Hope all the Guardians are enjoying their weekends and that their weather is better than mine!
Jack Black
do you have any knowledge as to why? 
the pile side does look like stained bone. Come to think of it though thatās all antler is
92Ā°F and 67% humidity. The weather girl says it feels like 108Ā°F. I say it feels like defeat. People look downtrodden, beaten, spent. Even in their cars with the A/C on, you can tell they understand it's only a temporary reprieve. A thin pane of safety glass and an overworked compressor, all that contain the deluge of sweat eager to burst forth from desperate, sunburned brows.
In Miami, we know The Second Law of Thermodynamics. We know it well. It comes to Christmas celebrations at our homes. It likes ham.
As much as I'd like to stay inside until January or so, my dad insists that his cat needs daily feedings. He lives just a mile away (1.609344 kilometers... kilometres... uh...km...good) but in this weather, any exertion at all feels like swimming for your life through thick, hot molasses. As my father's place is ripe with novel photographic opportunities, I figured I'd make the most of having to go and packed up three recent lamb arrivals (two just showed up yesterday!), remembered I don't have a space suit - so didn't put one on, and stepped face first into the free-range outdoor steam room I call home.
By the time I arrived (4 minutes); I was sweaty, uninspired, and just wanted to go back home but I had three (3!) lambs in my pockets and a phone with a camera built in. "Aw hell" I thought, along with "Might as well."
I found the shadow Rodgers and stag A. Wright (I'm guessing - the only mark being "SHEFFIELD" over "ENGLAND" on the mark side tang) Senator (whoever said it was a stupid name is right in my book...) for a song. A short and not very good one even. Crowning the stack is the Taylor's Eyewitness Jack sent which accompanies me most places lately.
The Rodgers is poorly centered but lightweight and functional. Even if these were produced to cut costs, I feel like they stumbled onto something practical and maybe even elegant in a way. I'm incredibly interested in what it looks like under the covers but not enough to go prying around inside.
The Senator (groan) is much nicer than I expected. Perfect pull, usable and pocketable size, good heft - the only strikes against it are one of the most "meh" stag pile sides I've ever seen and the mirror-polished blade - I am opposed to mirror polishes, especially on what I consider to be "working" patterns. Not shown is some very fancy work on the spring and liners - a first for me. I thought the pile side was so "ick" that I decided to photograph it.
While at my dad's, I took the opportunity to rummage through his stuff, found the (bone-covered, I believe) pocket knife he accidentally left on the roof for a decade, and took some pictures of it. As it's not a lamb, it isn't suitable for display here, but an interesting find nonetheless. If you're intrigued, I should be posting those pics in another thread in the near future. Ten years of South Florida sun is a caustic brew and I have proof! I don't advise reattempting that experiment with any lambs!
Hope all the Guardians are enjoying their weekends and that their weather is better than mine!
