Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Jack Black]

In the before picture the two secondary bevels form a perfectly straight line at the edge, for the first time.
Previous to that, the secondary bevels were even, but followed a warped blade. (as recieved new)

I lived with the wide and uneven (but straight) sharpening bevel for a long time, but the knife was a pain to sharpen, and I wasn't happy with the performance. The knife spent several months in a drawer.....and I stopped hanging out on the guardians thread .... But I missed the fine folks here , so I spent some time gettin' the Lambsfoot in tip top shape.


Michael

That's awful Michael It looks like you had to take quite a bit of steel off too It's good to have you back though

Thank you Dylan.

A quaint and beautiful building. David to the right of the building protruding up out of the sidewalk there is a black fixture about 4 ft high. Is that perhaps some type of valve connecting to the water system?

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If I may answer for David, that is just a steel bollard Dwight, to stop traffic going down the pedestrianised streets (it can be removed for vehicles requiring access), Generally, hydrants here are underneath a small steel door, either in the road, or in the base of a wall

(I was hoping the video might actuallly show how the hydrants are used! Well, if you're ever in Thorbury! )

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Patina on this one is amazing. With the talk of the 2019 Blade Forum knife possibly being made in Sheffield is very interesting.

The 2019 Guardians Lambsfoot will DEFINITELY be made in Sheffield

 

[Fodderwing]

What's the tractor?

Thanks for the response David. Very interesting stuff. You can imagine how much I can appreciate the massive undertaking of preserving your edifices of such antiquity from destruction by fire. Unfathomable actually.

If I may answer for David, that is just a steel bollard Dwight, to stop traffic going down the pedestrianised streets (it can be removed for vehicles requiring access), Generally, hydrants here are underneath a small steel door, either in the road, or in the base of a wall

Thank you Jack. I actually thought it was an "outside stem and yoke valve" for a fire suppression system. Very interesting the subterranean hydrants!

 

[tmd_87]

I thought 2018 was a great knife year. 2019 is shaping up to be one of the best!

 

[Pàdruig]

Thanks for posting the Checkerboard Lambsfoot photos Dylan! I shared these with Jack on Monday evening and he told me it would be okay to post them in the thread. Something I had not got around to doing yet. Today I’ve got another of my wee Sambars!

I apologize, Ron, for jumping the gun in regards to those pics. When you mentioned them, I knew exactly what you were referring to as I've come across them as well. I posted rather late last night after a rather busy day so I may have missed a few things.

Thanks Dylan, and thanks for posting those odd-looking Japanese-made Winchester knives. I had never seen them before Ron Half/Stop sent me some pics the other night. I was surprised by the prices they are offered at Great pic my friend, and that looks like a lovely drop

Thank you, Jack. Those Winchesters certainly are a bit of an enigma.


Well, ever since I ordered a bit of Colman's Mustard some time ago, it has become a bit of a favorite of mine. A little goes a long way due to its potent heat (horseradish) but the flavor is good and I had come close to running out. I ordered some more and it arrived yesterday. I thought I only ordered one jar but I received a case of six! I don't think I will be running out anytime soon...

 

[tmd_87]

Double post

 

[donn]

That's awful Michael It looks like you had to take quite a bit of steel off too It's good to have you back though



If I may answer for David, that is just a steel bollard Dwight, to stop traffic going down the pedestrianised streets (it can be removed for vehicles requiring access), Generally, hydrants here are underneath a small steel door, either in the road, or in the base of a wall

(I was hoping the video might actuallly show how the hydrants are used! Well, if you're ever in Thorbury! )



The 2019 Guardians Lambsfoot will DEFINITELY be made in Sheffield

Thanks Jack! that must be the most interesting 10 minutes of Youtube I've ever watched...

Thanks for the response David. Very interesting stuff. You can imagine how much I can appreciate the massive undertaking of preserving your edifices of such antiquity from destruction by fire. Unfathomable actually.

Thank you Jack. I actually thought it was an "outside stem and yoke valve" for a fire suppression system. Very interesting the subterranean hydrants!

Aye the tax payers of historic cities have an extra burden as they have to fund the upkeep of publicly owned historic structures. For example the mediaeval walls of York are maintained by the local council.

 

[Jack Black]

What a cracking old knife. Some real character to it; and it looks a lot thinner in than my twin-bladed lambsfoot.
You keep teasing us all with these great shots of the ironwood. Looking forward to receiving mine more and more



Hi Dwight, no sorry it's a bollard; a traffic control measure. An infestation of pretty much every town and city in the realm . Most of our towns and cities have now been pedestrenised and those things help keep the cars out.
Saying that, your not far wrong. A lot of our historic cities have enhanced fire suppression networks, in comparison to say our modern cities like Manchester or Sheffield.
Many of the buildings are made of wood, mainly oak, (all the buildings in that photo are), wattle and daub and there all tightly packed together in narrow streets; a fire control nightmare. For example Chester (a Roman city in the north-west of England) has a historic network of shopping arcades called "The Rows" which are all nearly 500 years old and constructed from wood, so the fire control strategy is very comprehensive.
York is no different. In 1984 a bolt of lightening hit York Minster, the 12/13th century cathedral church.

I've been told that after that little adventure the water supply around York city centre was uprated and the Minster itself apparently has one of the most comprehensive fire suppression systems installed in any building in the world.

What's the tractor?

Thanks David Please accept my apologies for replying to Dwight, I think we were posting around the same time

Thanks for the response David. Very interesting stuff. You can imagine how much I can appreciate the massive undertaking of preserving your edifices of such antiquity from destruction by fire. Unfathomable actually.

Thank you Jack. I actually thought it was an "outside stem and yoke valve" for a fire suppression system. Very interesting the subterranean hydrants!

The feller who made that video certainly spent a lot of time looking at the hydrants where he lives!

I thought 2018 was a great knife year. 2019 is shaping up to be one of the best!

I think this one might be the best yet Taylor

Thank you, Jack. Those Winchesters certainly are a bit of an enigma.


Well, ever since I ordered a bit of Colman's Mustard some time ago, it has become a bit of a favorite of mine. A little goes a long way due to its potent heat (horseradish) but the flavor is good and I had come close to running out. I ordered some more and it arrived yesterday. I thought I only ordered one jar but I received a case of six! I don't think I will be running out anytime soon...

I wonder if they were anything to do with Jim Taylor, who was having knives made up in Japan at that time?

Great colours in that pic my friend You're certainly well stocked up!

 

[Half/Stop]

I apologize, Ron, for jumping the gun in regards to those pics. When you mentioned them, I knew exactly what you were referring to as I've come across them as well. I posted rather late last night after a rather busy day so I may have missed a few things.



Thank you, Jack. Those Winchesters certainly are a bit of an enigma.


Well, ever since I ordered a bit of Colman's Mustard some time ago, it has become a bit of a favorite of mine. A little goes a long way due to its potent heat (horseradish) but the flavor is good and I had come close to running out. I ordered some more and it arrived yesterday. I thought I only ordered one jar but I received a case of six! I don't think I will be running out anytime soon...

Certainly no apologies needed my friend! Thanks again! That Red Jigged Bone is looking better and better!

 

[donn]

Thanks David Please accept my apologies for replying to Dwight, I think we were posting around the same time



The feller who made that video certainly spent a lot of time looking at the hydrants where he lives!

No apology needed Jack! I'd never of guessed someone had made a video explaining fire hydrants. In Thornbury...
BTW it wasn't the most interesting video on Youtube. That video of 1902 Sheffield you posted a few weeks ago has me entranced.

 

[Prester John]

I apologize, Ron, for jumping the gun in regards to those pics. When you mentioned them, I knew exactly what you were referring to as I've come across them as well. I posted rather late last night after a rather busy day so I may have missed a few things.



Thank you, Jack. Those Winchesters certainly are a bit of an enigma.


Well, ever since I ordered a bit of Colman's Mustard some time ago, it has become a bit of a favorite of mine. A little goes a long way due to its potent heat (horseradish) but the flavor is good and I had come close to running out. I ordered some more and it arrived yesterday. I thought I only ordered one jar but I received a case of six! I don't think I will be running out anytime soon...

That mustard sure looks good, but that knife is out of this world!

 

[Travman]

 

[Prester John]

 

[Fodderwing]

What's the tractor?

Sorry David! I forgot to answer your question. It's a 30 HP Diesel Kubota with a front end loader and drag blade.

 

[flatblackcapo]

Two of my most favorite things together.

 

[Jack Black]

No apology needed Jack! I'd never of guessed someone had made a video explaining fire hydrants. In Thornbury...
BTW it wasn't the most interesting video on Youtube. That video of 1902 Sheffield you posted a few weeks ago has me entranced.

Thanks David Yes, I thought it was quite hypnotic in its banality! I'm glad you liked the 1902 film. There are lots of historic videos of Sheffield available, here's another, from a later period (you may recognise some of the route from going to Abbeydale Hamlet). That's very much what Sheffield looked like when I was growing up. I don't remember the trams, as I was just a nipper when they were withdrawn, but I do remember the introduction of the 'modern' buses, like the one shown at the end. When I was a kid, most were of the older type, with an open entrance at the back, like the old London Routemaster buses

Lovely AC's guys

Two of my most favorite things together.

What a great pic Kevin, you're making me hungry! I'm also carrying my ebony '18 today The weekend is nearly here folks

 

[Will Power]

Astounding video that Jack! haven't had time to look at it all-work intruding again But what a gem, can't have been easy to film on a double deck tram I suppose with cameras being bulky? Yet the people don't seem to notice it except for the little girl in specs on the street, noticed a Beatnik/Hipster type with a BEARD not too common in 1960 I suppose (too common now) and those kids bathing in what looks like a freezing Lido or canal? Interesting adverts on view too, cigarettes 3/6 a packet 17p?? Tetley's on a bus, Mark&Spencer and the common decency &courtesy of the men working the trams. For a car enthusiast like me it was a rich mine too Loads of Morris Minors, Ford Thames and Bedford vans, Ford Zodiacs, Austin Somersets but also Humber Hawks and a wonderful 'Cyclops' (no not the steel works...) Rover plus a Green Standard Vanguard The 'foreign' cars were a couple of Renault Dauphines a VW Beetle and VW vans.

But WHY are they driving on the wrong side of the road?? Mind you, Sweden used to be left side until 1967 (and yet their cars were RHD crazy??) and people forget, a lot of Asia&Africa are left side still today.

Plenty of bomb site damage still on view, but actually not much different in Continental Europe either at that time, but a feeling of energy, confidence & purpose.

Also interesting to speculate how many men were carrying pocket knives on them? Quite a few That old gaffer walking in the street with a black suit and cloth cap will have had one, and to think, he might've been 75 or 80 at the time, born in the c19th and maybe in The Great War? Window on a lost world but not a vanished one thanks to these films. Like the music score too, some type of MJQ at the start, very 50's

Thanks for posting it

Regards, Will

 

[Jack Black]

Astounding video that Jack! haven't had time to look at it all-work intruding again But what a gem, can't have been easy to film on a double deck tram I suppose with cameras being bulky? Yet the people don't seem to notice it except for the little girl in specs on the street, noticed a Beatnik/Hipster type with a BEARD not too common in 1960 I suppose (too common now) and those kids bathing in what looks like a freezing Lido or canal? Interesting adverts on view too, cigarettes 3/6 a packet 17p?? Tetley's on a bus, Mark&Spencer and the common decency &courtesy of the men working the trams. For a car enthusiast like me it was a rich mine too Loads of Morris Minors, Ford Thames and Bedford vans, Ford Zodiacs, Austin Somersets but also Humber Hawks and a wonderful 'Cyclops' (no not the steel works...) Rover plus a Green Standard Vanguard The 'foreign' cars were a couple of Renault Dauphines a VW Beetle and VW vans.

But WHY are they driving on the wrong side of the road?? Mind you, Sweden used to be left side until 1967 (and yet their cars were RHD crazy??) and people forget, a lot of Asia&Africa are left side still today.

Plenty of bomb site damage still on view, but actually not much different in Continental Europe either at that time, but a feeling of energy, confidence & purpose.

Also interesting to speculate how many men were carrying pocket knives on them? Quite a few That old gaffer walking in the street with a black suit and cloth cap will have had one, and to think, he might've been 75 or 80 at the time, born in the c19th and maybe in The Great War? Window on a lost world but not a vanished one thanks to these films. Like the music score too, some type of MJQ at the start, very 50's

Thanks for posting it

Regards, Will

I'm glad you enjoyed it Will, and you are a good observer. There are much earlier films filmed on trams, and they can be shakey! I also noticed how few people glanced towards the camera, not what I would have expected really - typically British sangfroid or Yorkshire indifference! I noticed that they deliberately missed out several of the large bomb sites that still existed in the town centre then. Others are evident, but had advertising hoardings erected in front of them, as was common. It was a very positive period of British history though. I would think most of the men would have been carrying pocketknives of one kind or another, a penknife, or Lambsfoot, or a small key-chain knife. Many of the women too would have had one in their purses too I think, perhaps used to sharpen eye-brow pencils and suchlike. Certainly a very different time my friend That's crazy about Sweden! Mind you, when I took a Lebanese driving test in the late 70's, it was completely arbitrary what side of the road you drove on!

 

[Jack Black]

I carry a Lambsfoot...

Because you never know when you might need to make a sandwich

How 'bout you?

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack! that must be the most interesting 10 minutes of Youtube I've ever watched...



Aye the tax payers of historic cities have an extra burden as they have to fund the upkeep of publicly owned historic structures. For example the mediaeval walls of York are maintained by the local council.

LOL! Sorry! Also sorry for missing your post until now Somewhere I think I have a Lambsfoot photo taken in that exact same spot

 

[Mescladis]

Awesome knives in the previous posts! That red jigged bone is really pretty...

It's nice to read about York, I was in England last February to visit some friends in Leeds and I decided to get a glimpse of York: I know, February may not be the best time of year to visit northern England!! In fact I had the worst day you could think of: freezing temperatures, really strong wind, pouring rain and even snow. I sure hope I'll get back there on a nicer day to really visit York properly