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Guardians of The Lambsfoot!
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Angry Waiter
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Looks lovely Leon.Hope everyone is having a good weekend and has a good week.Sunday Morning breakfast.
. Beef, Lamb & Eggs.
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Hope everyone is having a good weekend and has a good week.
Proper breakfast
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Proper breakfast
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Good choice buddy !
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Lamb of the day goes to the Daniel’s. I can’t get past the solid heft and snap of this knife 
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Lamb of the day goes to the Daniel’s. I can’t get past the solid heft and snap of this knife
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They are a solid knife !
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Definitely!You've seen the way I look, and I'm only 37!
Hope you're OK mate, that can give a nasty burn!
My pinky finger got the worst of it, with a nice blister just above the nail. Other than that, no lasting damage. I wouldn’t recommend it, though.
Such cool knives, Bob!
Barrett I'd forgotten it had been that long myself. In full circulation by about 96.
Keep making that porridge goldilocks, they grow up and don't want to eat breakfastbut remember temperature has to be just right.
This one was definitely too hot!
A friend of some friends was a classics professor, and passed away recently. My friends were helping sort out his estate and came across a number of classic books (which their local used bookstore wasn't necessarily interested in) and they couldn't think of anyone other than me who would want them. They asked if I wanted to pick through the stack and take anything, but I told them I'd take anything that nobody else wanted. So I recently received three boxes stuffed with books. Mostly translations of Greek classics, but also translations of a fair number of Latin classics, some commentaries, and other odds and ends. The timing is great (not that there's a bad time to get free books) because my wife and I are jumping into a big study project of Homer, so more context and commentaries is wonderful.
One little gem in there is this untranslated copy of Xenophon, mostly for the handwritten dedication.
If you're having trouble reading this, the book was a prize for a bet between two classics professors over who had more linear feet of classics-related books.
Also, I hate to disappoint everyone, but those are my wife's nails in the pic, not mine.
One non-Greek book in the stack was The Complete Essays of Montaigne. I've read a few of his essays over the years and have always intended to get a complete edition, so this is what I'm reading for now.
GL-24 is my companion pretty much all the time these days.
That inscription is great!
I wonder how many linear feet of Lambsfoot knives have been shared in 5,000+ pages of this thread? 
Wow, fantastic Barrett, what a great souvenir
Thanks, guys. Eric had meant to put the stamp in the package with all the Guardians knives when he sent them, but it accidentally got left out, so it was just a bit delayed. It’s a hefty little hunk of metal, pretty cool to see.
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!
Hopefully that means some positive changes for Charlie’s.
Although I had my GL-24 out for a pic, I’ve had the Rosewood Hartshead Barlow in my pocket the last couple days.
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Cheers to a Sunday t-bone, scotch fillet, beer and lamb kind of evening.
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Thanks Steve!
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Very nice
...I'm starting to like micarta, because of the character it adds. I was always unsure of it's ability to take on daily abuses. Now I know it can.
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Good luck BobThe problem is, I cannot duplicate procedure. Will finagle with it.
I can't imagine having to deal with them!
The Minis ran well enough, but everything is reduced in size on them, of course, so low, cramped, and with the engine packed into a smaller space - lots of frustration and bloody knuckles for a young mechanic with big hands! 
Another cracking pic DwightHave a great day all...
Fascinating post Will, believe it or not, there are 2 or 3 people, each claiming to have come up with that stupid name92°F and 67% humidity. The weather girl says it feels like 108°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!
Roll on January It's down to the retailers Jack. Wright's do still use their own stamp, but a lot of the retailers prefer to keep a layer of anonymity, so that their customers, and more importantly, competitors, don't simply ring up Wright'sI’ve wondered myself why Wrights no longer use the Wright stamp and only go with the “made in Sheffield” one.Jack Black do you have any knowledge as to why?
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Looking good Steve
Nice choice cowboy
Glad you're eating well LeonHope everyone is having a good weekend and has a good week.
I'm glad they have done those LambsLamb of the day goes to the Daniel’s. I can’t get past the solid heft and snap of this knife
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Nice patina Jack Glad you're OK mateMy pinky finger got the worst of it, with a nice blister just above the nail. Other than that, no lasting damage. I wouldn’t recommend it, though.
LOL!That inscription is great!
A project for GT I think Really cool Barrett, not many stamps see so little use, and usually they are stamping steel of course. After a while, they dull, and don't cut as crisply. You'll see the difference, if you compare the stamps on your Guardians, in some cases the stamps are brand new. In the case of the Hartshead Barlows, I asked them to use an older stamp, as I wanted to avoid the 'clean' stamp you get with new punches. Stamps of this type are applied using a press, but Stan Shaw used to whack his in by hand. Very few of his customers used to request carbon steel blades, but when they did, he tended to use old recycled Sheffield blades, of which he had a collection, (some very old indeed), but if they'd been hardened, he couldn't stamp them well, particularly as he got older:Thanks, guys. Eric had meant to put the stamp in the package with all the Guardians knives when he sent them, but it accidentally got left out, so it was just a bit delayed. It’s a hefty little hunk of metal, pretty cool to see.
The stamp is much better on the Lamb he made for me in stainless:
When I had my Jack Black Knives set-up years ago, there was a stamp maker virtually next door. He is now one of the last working in the city, and makes the stamps for Wright's, though he will be very old now.
Things have improved massively already Barrett, though I feel sorry for Sara, who doesn't have a day off all month. Hisham is a kind-hearted guy, but you can't hire people, who while nice, are lazy, can't cook very well, and don't speak English, they get orders wrong all the time. An ex-BIL of mine was similar, ended up hiring 3 secretaries, because the first 2 couldn't type. When his business went down the pan, EVERYONE lost their jobHopefully that means some positive changes for Charlie’s.
Sweet BarrettAlthough I had my GL-24 out for a pic, I’ve had the Rosewood Hartshead Barlow in my pocket the last couple days.
Nice Mitch
Nice Micarta
That sounds like a pretty good evening Jack!
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Wrong name.
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Another skill that will be lost to time and modernization. Very sad.