Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[mitch13]

Very cool Barrett,
I'm in!

 

[mitch13]

Bobstag again

 

[birdsbeaks]

Or in the case of humans, we are after all the Apex predator of the animal kingdom, a Mob of Ferals.

In his book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari suggests that

"Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language. This enabled it to cooperate flexibly in large numbers, thereby overpowering every other organism on Earth, including other human species."

He seems to agree! A Ruthless Mob of Gabby Ferals!

Lambs would never perpetrate such a plot!

 

[echoscout]

Goodnight gents...

Great pic of Charlie

Barrett, what a unique and super generous GAW. I’m in please. Here is the state of the condiments currently. The Marie Sharps has been a favorite since I spent time in Belize in the summer of 1997. I put it on everything, to my wife’s dismay.

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I recognize that green cap I'm a big fan of Marie Sharps products.

Safe travels to and from Germany, Bill.
Ich hoffe, dass Sie bei Ihrem Besuch in Deutschland ein Oktoberfestbier trinken!
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Nice stag

 

[cudgee]

Nature seems to have a way of finding perfection and grace against all odds

Nature has an innate ability to look after and correct itself, tamper with it at your own peril.

I would've liked to have seen the intact specimen from which this knife's covers originated.

That is the uniqueness of Charlie's creation, it's history and originality. No other Lambs will ever have this, simply because his was the first of the modern era based on the intact specimen found.

 

[pat9198]

Tonight I loaded up a couple hot dogs with condiments, coincidentally. My favorite lately has been this Kentucky Straight Bourbon Bacon hot sauce that a forum member recently recommended. My father in law gave me the Scorned Woman hot sauce, it’s entirely possible he was just telling me something. Thanks for throwing this epic Guardians party of ‘24 Barrett btb01 , please consider me in!

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Couldn’t decide which I liked more so put them both in. My entry for the giveaway, thanks Barrett btb01

Love the jigging on both of those knives Eric has outdone himself again.

 

[lambertiana]

btb01 Count me in! I’d love to have a chance to see what all the fuss over Albers is all about.
I have a big collection of hot sauces, I grabbed four from the front of the shelf. Also included is my wife’s favorite condiment. A bit too strong for me, but my son once discovered that using it in a food fight led to the immediate surrender of his opponent.

 

[btb01]

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That sounds pretty good. Is it really as hot as the four-out-of-five flames suggests?

I'm in! Super cool giveaway, thank you for doing it and thank you for the tip in the Albers thread! Back when I was doing all of those GEC Navy Knife Lambsfoot mods, I did one that was inspired by the Ancient #15 Barlow. I have sold all of those modded knives, so I don't have one to take a picture with a condiment, but I like to say that when I was going at this ancient-ified lambsfoot, it got a little extra mustard so to say on the grinder to age the micarta. Here she is:

Definitely a cool mod. I’ll go ahead and count you in, but in the spirit of the GAW, some actual condiment content would be appreciated if you can. (If you don’t currently have any Lambsfoot to take a new pic with — something you should obviously remedy, if that’s the case — separate pics would be fine.)

Barrett gave me my first bottle of Secret Aardvark Habenero Sauce, and it's still my favourite hot sauce Just the thing on a sausage sammich

That’s the good stuff! I actually don’t have any in the house right now. Need to get through some other stuff, then I’ll order some more.

That must have been a great time with Neal and Dan. The Gidgee is gorgeous wood!

Thanks, Dwight, we had a great time. I met Dan in person for the first time at the Oregon show earlier this year, so it was nice to see him again.

I think I mentioned, when I got it a few weeks back, that the Ringed Gidgee had been my close second choice on the Albers drop that had both it and the Afzelia Burl. As you know, the Afzelia Burl is a beautiful wood, and it looks amazing in pics, but I think the Ringed Gidgee might actually be more impressive in person. More subtle in pics, but amazing chatoyance when you get it in the light.

I love that image of your lamb with the grey poupon!

Only the fancy stuff for such a fancy Lamb!

What a wonderful giveaway Barrett! That lamb has some fantastic jigging. Thank you Barrett for your amazing generosity and thoughtfulness.

Thanks, Dwight. I’m happy to do it.

WOW, btb01 - I relish the opportunity to ketchup on this challenge after it's had some thyme to marinate in my mind! If I mayo, I'll submit a pic once I've mustard up something suitable. Humbling generosity and such a unique opportunity - thanks again, Barrett! You brought the hot sauce, my friend! WOW!

Ok, ok - here's the goods (unfortunately sans condiments - stay tuned!):

You’re in, but let’s definitely see those condiment pics when you get a chance, too.

HaHa, yessir, guilty as charged! Love your packet captures! I went to the drawer specifically for mustard and ketchup packets, intending to pose them like the knives. But I didn't have any red packet ketchup, only the Whataburger tubs...

Hey, what the Whataburger Spicy Ketchup may lack in traditional-red-ketchup-packet look, it more than makes up for with superior flavor! I’ll almost always opt for that over regular ketchup when it’s available.

A re-post of one from a few years back.

I’ve had a couple Marie Sharp’s sauces and enjoyed them. That one sounds pretty good.

While it is indeed most assuredly true that I am in need of a new lambsfoot...

I am going to pass my entry to Leon cudgee ... Good luck mate! And thanks again Barrett for a super special GL2024 extravaganza my friend...

Fantastic Lambsfoot collection, Dwight! Nice lineup of condiments with your GL-24, too. Those peppers in vinegar are something I haven’t thought about in a long time! I never really thought of that as being a southern thing, but maybe it is. I can’t remember ever seeing it on any restaurant tables up this way. I’ve got your entry in for Leon.

Not one person here would begrudge you that. What you did for this project was nothing short of extraordinary.

Thanks, Leon. I really enjoyed the whole project, and would be happy to take on another in the future if given the opportunity.

She is a very good judge.

She said it was her new favorite, replacing the Glitter Gold (non-Lambsfoot) knife she always reaches for when I go through my knife drawers. I guess that officially makes her a Guardian now.

Barrett, the Cranberry Relish looks fantastic, I'd love a chance at winning it. Here are my favorite condies along with my favorite Albers, blue Roper.

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Good stuff, you’re in! I’m a big fan of Colman’s mustard for certain applications, but for mayo, I have to say, I’m a Duke’s man.

btb01 im in thanks for the awesome giveaway! I have hundreds of hot sauces but have been enjoying these condiments lately.

Nice entry! I’m a bit of a mustard purist when it comes to hot dogs, but that hot dog sauce sounds interesting. Actually, I guess that’s not entirely true. I’ve eaten hot dogs with lots of other toppings, just not ketchup.

Barrett, I'd like to enter your very generous Guardians of the Condiments GAW, please!
Your daughter Scout has great taste in choosing that pickled stag bone version as the family keeper.
The GAW knife reminds me of my beloved Case chestnut jigged bone knives, none of which is a lambsfoot. So I'm excited for a chance at that sublime GL-24 variant you've put up for grabs!
I use some kind of condiment on almost every evening meal I consume. Here's a photo showing a selection of them. (I suppose I should really set up a daily rotation schedule for supper seasonings. ) Best wishes to all the entrants!
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Nice variety there, GT. You’re in!

Barrett, what a unique and super generous GAW. I’m in please. Here is the state of the condiments currently. The Marie Sharps has been a favorite since I spent time in Belize in the summer of 1997. I put it on everything, to my wife’s dismay.

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Good stuff, Pete. Does that little one say “Grapefruit Pulp Habenero”?

Very cool Barrett,
I'm in!

Nice pic, Mitch, I’ve got you on the list.

Tonight I loaded up a couple hot dogs with condiments, coincidentally. My favorite lately has been this Kentucky Straight Bourbon Bacon hot sauce that a forum member recently recommended. My father in law gave me the Scorned Woman hot sauce, it’s entirely possible he was just telling me something. Thanks for throwing this epic Guardians party of ‘24 Barrett btb01 , please consider me in!

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Bourbon and bacon sounds interesting, though I’m admittedly always a bit hesitant with bacon-flavored things. Don’t get me wrong, I love bacon, but sometimes “bacon flavor” doesn’t really taste anything like the real deal.

(Tried to reply to too many posts at once, have to split this up…)

 

[btb01]

Couldn’t decide which I liked more so put them both in. My entry for the giveaway, thanks Barrett btb01

Love the jigging on both of those knives Eric has outdone himself again.

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Great pics! I have to know what’s in the Grolsch bottle. I assume something homemade?

btb01 Count me in! I’d love to have a chance to see what all the fuss over Albers is all about.
I have a big collection of hot sauces, I grabbed four from the front of the shelf. Also included is my wife’s favorite condiment. A bit too strong for me, but my son once discovered that using it in a food fight led to the immediate surrender of his opponent.
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Another nice lineup!

I’ve really enjoyed all the entries so far! You guys are great!

Even if you’ve already entered, remember to check in around Wednesday or Thursday for an update with an opportunity for a second entry.

This is a pic from a year or two ago. I found the most cost effective way to get some of my favorite BBQ (because I can’t buy it in person here) was to order a case of it directly from Gates. We’ve just about finished off these bottles, too, so it’ll be time for another case soon.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Great pics! I have to know what’s in the Grolsch bottle. I assume something homemade?

This is a pic from a year or two ago. I found the most cost effective way to get some of my favorite BBQ (because I can’t buy it in person here) was to order a case of it directly from Gates. We’ve just about finished off these bottles, too, so it’ll be time for another case soon.

Haha yeah I do prefer my own hot sauces and ketchups. I’m down to the last bottle of this one, it’s a (very) hot habanero sauce I did a while back. To be honest too hot, burns the gums so I’ll tone it down I think!
I’m due to make some more, still have some habanero, aji lemon and Broome chilli’s from last summer to use.

I like your bulk purchase too, that’s the way to do it!

 

[AusLoX]

Guardians of the Condiments GIVEAWAY!!

Unless you’ve slept through the last 100+ pages of this thread, you’ve likely been seeing a lot of the 2024 Guardians of the Lambsfoot knives made for us by Eric Albers. Many of you have been carrying yours and sharing pics here, which has been a real treat for me. I enjoyed getting to work on this project with Eric (he did all the real work, of course, making the knives), and I’m happy that everyone seems to like the knives.

While putting the Guardians knives together, Eric ended up with a couple extra GL-24 stamped liners, a result of breaks/voids in some pieces of the vintage Micarta that made them unfit for use. Since he couldn’t really use the stamped liners for anything else, I asked Eric if he might make a couple extra knives, in whatever handle material he’d like. He kindly agreed to do so. You could call them “Eric’s Choice” if you were so inclined.

When I first reached out and asked Eric to take on the Guardians project, I had some initial (admittedly self-indulgent and far-fetched) ideas of tying the knives into the whole Guardians of the Condiments thing. I looked at some pretty out-there handle materials, including an orange and black (Henderson’s Relish colors) patterned G10 that was particularly wild. In the end we obviously went a different way, and I think the vintage Polish Micarta turned out to be a much better (and less polarizing) choice.

Now I doubt that Eric had any of that in mind when he chose the materials for the two “bonus” knives that he made (he probably doesn’t even remember me rambling on about the Guardians of the Condiments in my early emails). But he did send me two knives that, to my eye, at least, definitely have a bit of a condiment-adjacent theme to them.

Eric referred to these as Cranberry Jigged Bone and Brown/Green Stag Jigged Bone, but I think I’m going to call them “Cranberry Relish Jigged Bone” (a nod to one of my favorite Thanksgiving recipes from my grandma) and “Pickle Bone” (because how could I call that one anything else?).

I hope that y’all won’t begrudge me the decision to hang on to one of these knives myself, and my 4-year-old daughter Scout made it pretty clear that she wanted me to keep the Pickle Bone Lambsfoot, so I’m going with that one.

That means that the Cranberry Relish Lambsfoot will be going to one lucky Guardian, because this is a giveaway! The rules are pretty simple:

— You need to have at least 25 posts (prior to this post) in the Guardians thread to qualify. You’re welcome to enter on behalf of another Guardian, but they must meet the post requirement.

— Let me know that you are in for the GAW, and post a condiment-themed Lambsfoot photo.

— I’ll let this go until some time Sunday afternoon (Sept. 22) to give everyone enough time to see this and enter.

— Sometime around the middle of the week I’ll probably post an update with an opportunity for a second entry in the GAW.

— And finally, I would ask that whoever wins this knife please keep it within the Guardians group if you ever decide to move it along. I think it goes without saying in this group, but please don’t enter with the intent of selling/profiting off the knife.

So let’s see your favorite hot sauces, BBQ sauces, mustards, chili crisp, Henderson’s relish, or whatever other condiments you like (along with a Lambsfoot knife, of course). Have fun with it, get creative, and thanks again for such a great reception to the 2024 Guardians knives!

Wow! Amazing GAW! I’m newer here so I hope
I meet the post requirement. If so, count me in!
Some of my favorite sauces.
Thanks!

 

[echoscout]

That sounds pretty good. Is it really as hot as the four-out-of-five flames suggests?

It's hot I wouldn't say scorching The good news is it has good flavor I don't have the high tolerance for super hot sauce I once did. Getting soft as in older age.

 

[Tyson A Wright]

btb01 thanks for being awesome yet again. I'd like to enter the giveaway, please - here's my entry.

The sauce on the left is my homemade pepper sauce (it's delicious but just not hot enough for me to call it a hot sauce). It was pictured here while I was making it, and here's where Barrett gave it the Guardians of the Condiments Seal of Approval. It was just bottled tonight. My wife made the Il Bozzolo label - that's what we named our house, and that sticker is what we put on things we make to give away (hot sauce, lemoncello, etc.).

Of course I had to include a bottle of Henderson's, too. It made sense for the HHB to be pictured with its fellow Yorkshire delight, so the GL-24 was stuck with the hot sauce. It's very polite and pretended not to mind.

 

[traumkommode]

Definitely a cool mod. I’ll go ahead and count you in, but in the spirit of the GAW, some actual condiment content would be appreciated if you can. (If you don’t currently have any Lambsfoot to take a new pic with — something you should obviously remedy, if that’s the case — separate pics would be fine.)

I know I need to remedy it, hopefully maybe when this GAW is done . But absolutely, I will do this the right way.

Here's a picture of a condiment I've been enjoying this year. Japanese Barbecue sauce, it's a great addition to chicken and rice. And I'll throw in another lambsfoot mod with it!

 

[cudgee]

Getting soft as in older age.

It's called mellowing with experience.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

With the season still on the decline and this weeks much needed raining already vanishing I’ve had a couple of growers pull the pin on todays paddock inspections.
Called a mate and after work we’re heading out to the bush for a quick hunt. Maybe a fox, hopefully a deer.

GL-24 in the pocket today.

 

[Jack Black]

Barrett, I'd like to enter your very generous Guardians of the Condiments GAW, please!
Your daughter Scout has great taste in choosing that pickled stag bone version as the family keeper.
The GAW knife reminds me of my beloved Case chestnut jigged bone knives, none of which is a lambsfoot. So I'm excited for a chance at that sublime GL-24 variant you've put up for grabs!
I use some kind of condiment on almost every evening meal I consume. Here's a photo showing a selection of them. (I suppose I should really set up a daily rotation schedule for supper seasonings. ) Best wishes to all the entrants!
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Nice photo Gary

Goodnight gents...

Excellent shot of your Waynorth Lamb Dwight

Barrett, what a unique and super generous GAW. I’m in please. Here is the state of the condiments currently. The Marie Sharps has been a favorite since I spent time in Belize in the summer of 1997. I put it on everything, to my wife’s dismay.

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Another great pic Pete, I'm liking this theme!

Thanks, Jack. One of my faves!

Nature seems to have a way of finding perfection and grace against all odds. I would've liked to have seen the intact specimen from which this knife's covers originated. Sometimes I think I might really be a materials junkie who, separately, happens to have a penchant for pocket cutlery. I become unduly excited when Rufus1949 starts posting pictures of slabs of wood, or btb01 elevator micarta.

You are a true enthusiast my friend

Safe travels to and from Germany, Bill.
Ich hoffe, dass Sie bei Ihrem Besuch in Deutschland ein Oktoberfestbier trinken!
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Great timing! Cool pic of your AC Gary

Black Jack doing a little geometry almost 6 years ago:
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Sweet pics

I had a long day yesterday. Ten hours of church instead of five, because of a concert in the afternoon, then a two-hour all-store meeting at Lowe's.

Sorry to hear you had to suffer in Silence buddy

 

[Rufus1949]

Thanks, Jack. One of my faves!

Nature seems to have a way of finding perfection and grace against all odds. I would've liked to have seen the intact specimen from which this knife's covers originated. Sometimes I think I might really be a materials junkie who, separately, happens to have a penchant for pocket cutlery. I become unduly excited when Rufus1949 starts posting pictures of slabs of wood, or btb01 elevator micarta.

The beautiful thing about our mind, a sense of wonder.
I enjoy your musing Will.

 

[cudgee]

GL-24 in the pocket today.

Love the look of the worn in leather.