Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[echoscout]

it was pretty tasty David, I'm just having a cheeseburger with Secret Aardvark

That sounds really good Hope your day has been agreeable with you.

 

[echoscout]

Morning Guardians! The draught continues. Suppose to get up towards 90° this afternoon. Hope y'all have a good one. A Wright

 

[Jack Black]

That sounds really good Hope your day has been agreeable with you.

Thank you, I definitely can't complain my friend I hope yours is going well too

I've spent a lot of time admiring my pocket candy

 

[Jack Black]

Morning Guardians! The draught continues. Suppose to get up towards 90° this afternoon. Hope y'all have a good one. A Wright

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That'd be a summer's day here David! Nice Wright

 

[sbh06]

As Bob had mentioned earlier. A few of us commissioned a very special knife from our friend @Cosimo De Benedetto. What a pleasure it was to work with him on these knives. I’ve worked with a few makers and Cosimo is the gold standard for me. Always kept me in the loop and gave updates whenever possible. There may be an ocean in between us but answered all my nagging questions in a timely fashion.

Now to the knife. What a beauty !!!! Here are some of the particulars of the knife.

Bohler K720 carbon steel (An analog of O1 I believe.)

Intricate triple rat tailed bolsters

Jigged brown bone.

For size we went with the 93 lambsfoot.

These are so wonderful and so excited to own it. What a work of art. The action and pull are just perfect and I cannot see a single flaw in this knife. I’ve included a few photos of the first group that came in along with close ups of mine. Proud to say that 13 of these have been commissioned.

Good luck with the brakes Bob and nice shot of your new Lamb !




Nice pic Todd !



Cool Cozies !

Thanks Steve, Vietnames Pho

I don't think that one had internet, (it had music), but the Classic, which came after did, and was only the same size I'm not sure if I was on BF then, but I can definitely remember using it! It DID take forever!

Thanks Barrett

Good luck Bob, don't end up like Harry Hotballs! That's a great-looking Lamb

Thanks Todd, nice to see you back in your spot That's a good-looking mug

Wow! Great work

Yummy

Handsome Stag

Great way to start the day. HHB

Lovely

Slick

Thanks gents!!

 

[SteveC]

Morning Guardians! The draught continues. Suppose to get up towards 90° this afternoon. Hope y'all have a good one. A Wright

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Nice jigged Lamb !

It got up to 84° here yesterday. It's supposed to get more seasonal after today and hopefully a bit of rain.

 

[mitch13]

Thanks Jack. I have flown over the bars, but always in the woods.

& not a helmet in sight!

 

[peanutsxx]

& not a helmet in sight!

Old skool is the only school!

 

[Rufus1949]

& not a helmet in sight!

Once with, once without.

 

[Rufus1949]

Once with, once without.

No real injuries.

 

[mitch13]

Once with, once without.

You don't have to wear a helmet? Here it's a legal requirement and you get fined with out 1. Not a bad thing I know what we were like on bikes.

 

[Rufus1949]

You don't have to wear a helmet? Here it's a legal requirement and you get fined with out 1. Not a bad thing I know what we were like on bikes.

Mitch, I always wear one now. The laws in my state, only those under 17 need one.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

You don't have to wear a helmet? Here it's a legal requirement and you get fined with out 1. Not a bad thing I know what we were like on bikes.

I’d rather it wasn’t law, people should be able to make their own call on personal safety. I usually wear one myself having said that

 

[SteveC]

Bonus picture of the day

 

[bigfish64]

Cosimo lamb spent the weekend supervising beer koozie production.

Cool project Jeremy!

Nice pic Todd !

Thanks Steve.

Good morning Guardians !

Carrying Slick today



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Slick is looking good!

Thanks Todd, nice to see you back in your spot That's a good-looking mug

Thanks Jack!

Morning Guardians! The draught continues. Suppose to get up towards 90° this afternoon. Hope y'all have a good one. A Wright

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Hope you get some rain soon David. We are very dry as well, but not nearly so hot.

 

[5K Qs]

My favourite photos of my CJ.
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A-1 pics of your CJ lambsfoot, John!

Some like it hot. Some like it sweet. All (who’ve tried one, at least) like a lambsfoot!

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I’ll spare ya’ll the details, but, a couple of years ago, a serious (non-lambsfoot) knife-related injury put me off of Very Sharp Things for a spell. I’m long past that, but it’s taken a might longer to feel the itch to be totin’ a cutting tool in my pocket. Of course, it was a lambsfoot I reached for! The pictures above are “my knife”, an A. Wright Buffalo-clad model that was my introduction to the pattern and my most frequent carry. I owe it a spa day, but after some power stropping on the Tormek leather wheel it’s back to acceptable slicing shape.

I see a lot of new names and lambsfoot knives since I last frequented The Porch. I’m looking forward to getting to know my new fellow guardians!

Sorry to read about your knife-related injury, Greg, and glad to see that you've got a knife in your pocket again!

My pocket is liking this one.
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Evening all...

Outstanding CBD lambs, Bob & Dwight; joy-inducing jigging!
In the past week or so, I noticed the second line of the tang stamps on CBD's knives, and I thought it said "July", which seemed like a quite precise date stamp! Looking at a close-up of Dwight's photo, it finally dawned on me that "July" is really "Italy"! (I was just yesterday at the ophthalmologist, who said my current glasses are just fine.)

Good looking stag !

Stagalious

Man Jack and I thank you for your support, Steve & David!

Morning Guardians! Hope y'all are having a good TGIF. Nice fall day around these parts. Venture Happy trails

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Good, old lambsfoot, David!

Contemporary medicine isn't either mate!

I'm with you on the mushy peas Gary I remembered to put the veg on tonight


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Some of your stories about current UK medicine ARE quite disturbing, Jack!
Your meal looks delicious with the gravy!

Thanks Steve, Bangers 'n' mash!

All the way from NZ

Sensational shell, Jack! The line of holes along its top makes me wonder if you can play a tune on it.

I was going to quote Barry Maguire, but it isn't quite apt.

I seem to think I have plenty of time this morning, but that's usually "just a mirage" (Tommy James)

I'll disagree with you, Jer; I think "Eve of Destruction" is quite appropriate for almost anything going on these days.
I had listened to a lot of Tommy James and the Shondells songs last week, but had completely forgotten about "Mirage". I found it online this morning and listened, and it all came back to me. (Although the music seemed very similar to that of "I Think We're Alone Now".)

That picture of Tool Man next to the Rover reminds me what my older brother used to say, "Never trust a man who wears a belt and suspenders!"

Berry is still riding fine.

I think I started wearing suspenders regularly about 6 years ago, Jeff, and I'd be thrilled to wear a belt with them so I could carry various belt pouches and sheaths. But my wife and daughter laugh uproariously at me whenever I try to add a belt to "assist" my braces.
Berry is sweet as forbidden fruit!

Happy Saturday Guardians !



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Bonus pic of the day


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Awesome stag lamb, Steve!
I've been away from this thread for a couple of years at least, and have no idea what a large and various flock you gathered while I was away!

Yesterday Jack Purcell aka Hatchet_Jack made my day! A package from the Land down Under arrived at my house. Jack gifted me an absolutely beautiful Max Sao lamb foot. He told me it was his way of saying thank you for welcoming him to the Forum and the Guardians. It is people like Jack who make the Forum a special place! From the bottom of my heart thanks again Jack!
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Congrats on the colorful lamb, Dan, and accolades to H. Jack for his thoughtful generosity!


- GT

 

[5K Qs]

It’s not a dish you see up this way too often, GT, and while my luck with southern dishes in MN has been pretty hit or miss, this one was pretty good.

Our daughter took us to a Twin Cities (I think St. Paul) "down-home country-style" chicken place that I'd have called "southern" when we visited a couple of years ago. They had grits and collard greens and biscuits and other side dishes outside my experience that you could order along with a whole fried chicken served at your table. It was pretty good, but I passed on the grits. (My daughter says the name of the restaurant is Revival.)

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Here are a shot beside a Canal where Sue and I drive out to get a Pint and Pub Butty Sandwich
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Fine photo of your new knife, Duncan; I'm glad you're enjoying visiting "ancestral lands"!

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Sublime knife, Pete, with a nice background for the photo!
Does anyone still call that "a crotch of the tree"? The last few years I was teaching, my students seemed to have never heard that expression and maybe some thought it was kind of crude!

Violet

Violet again - Va Va Voom!
My Dad had some 45rpm records, probably from the late 1940s and early 1950s when I was a kid. One was Dinah Shore singing "Sweet Violets". I thought the song was really cool because the lyrics led you to expect a particular word to finish a rhyming couplet, but would surprise you with something totally different.

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The adventures and ambitions of Man Jack

That sounds like it should be the title of his biography, David! Want to write one for him?

We’re still piecing together their actual Halloween costumes, so tonight was more of a throw-something-together-using-stuff-from-their-dress-up-box kind of situation.

Nice costumes!
I especially like Scout's mainly Minnie Mouse, but with skeletal fingers; the dissonance is chilling!

It’s out 8th wedding anniversary on Tuesday but han decided to do something today. For fun we stick to the anniversary gifts by year either modern or traditional. This year is salt or linen, I bought her sheets for our new bed (romantic I know) and she decided on a family picnic to a local salt lake - pink lake.

Bit sunny for a decent pic but I did have good company other than family.

Took some salt home, going to dry it out for a few days. Should last a while!

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Belated happy anniversary, Jack!
Is that lake on Earth? Looks like your anniversary festivities took place on an alien planet!

That's one heck of a house! Thanks for the pics Gary

Trust the administration to take the best house.

I think that manor house contains some faculty offices, too, but I don't have much firsthand knowledge of Aquinas College doings; I'm just a geezer wandering the grounds with a camera and a fistful of knives.

Howdy folks. Been busy. Got the stag Charlie lamb for work tonight. Hope everyone is doing well.

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That may be the only Charlie Lamb like that in the known universe, Paul!

Helping Elmer get ready for winter. Gracie was busy at the bird feeders.
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Elmer looks like he appreciates your cuisine and cutlery, Bob!

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Sunday Sausage Sammich!

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Hail to an old tradition! Quite a distinctive and distinguished knife that helped you bring it off, Jack!

- GT

 

[Jack Black]

Bonus picture of the day




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A timely Lambsfoot intervention Steve And a great pic

 

[Jack Black]

Some of your stories about current UK medicine ARE quite disturbing, Jack!

I dare say I'm not alone in trying not to dwell on it Gary, been trying to get a routine doctor's appointment for the past 2 months

Your meal looks delicious with the gravy!

Thanks, I'm hungry now!

Sensational shell, Jack! The line of holes along its top makes me wonder if you can play a tune on it.

I might give it a try!

Violet again - Va Va Voom!
My Dad had some 45rpm records, probably from the late 1940s and early 1950s when I was a kid. One was Dinah Shore singing "Sweet Violets". I thought the song was really cool because the lyrics led you to expect a particular word to finish a rhyming couplet, but would surprise you with something totally different.

I think that manor house contains some faculty offices, too, but I don't have much firsthand knowledge of Aquinas College doings; I'm just a geezer wandering the grounds with a camera and a fistful of knives.

Sounds good to me Gary When I was teaching English in Northern France, I had a couple of classes, twice a week, at a large, old paper-mill, which wasn't far from the site of the Battle of Agincourt. The room that I taught in was in a lovely old building, which was the original mill-owners house

I actually got some work to do tonight. It didn't take me long, and I was paid well Reckon I'll buy Wolfie lunch tomorrow

 

[SteveC]

Awesome stag lamb, Steve!
I've been away from this thread for a couple of years at least, and have no idea what a large and various flock you gathered while I was away!





- GT

Thanks Gary ! It has indeed grown quite a bit in the last year or so.

A timely Lambsfoot intervention Steve And a great pic

Thanks Jack