Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[JohnDF]

Jack, every time I see a picture of that beautiful knife it reminds me of this painting...

 

[Jack Black]

We just had to put our knives away. We saw the game!

That's something!

Jack, every time I see a picture of that beautiful knife it reminds me of this painting...

Very nice of you to say so John

 

[Old Engineer]

I am looking for a lambsfoot knife with a stainless blade, But all decent brands seen to use carbon steel.
But i would like an decent brand, I live in England so if you know a brand/model with an stainless blade.
Thanks.

This is a Lambfoot that I ordered from Taylors Eye Witness in 2017 . It has a stainless blade and I ordered the Ramshorn covers . I am quite happy with it , but it is more expensive than A. Wright .



I hope you have good luck in finding the one that you want my friend .

Harry

 

[Prester John]

Hope everyone is having a good day The weather is not so good here, and I didn't get much of a walk in I'm afraid

What a lovely, lovely, knife.

 

[Prester John]

Good morning, Guardians! Must start the day out right.
I carry a lambsfoot...

...to deal with all my Spam!

How 'bout you?

 

[Prester John]

Super K-9 Krypto standing guard. We'll have to leave our knives with him while we go to the hockey game.

One thing I like about ice hockey is that the players don't seem to "flop"--fake or exaggerate injuries to get a penalty call and a free kick or free throw (yep, soccer & basketball). And when they fight, the refs let them go at it. What can I say? I like fights! (Is that wrong?).

[Old Don Rickles joke: "I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out!"]

 

[JTB_5]

Roasted coffee this morning.

 

[PoorUserName]

I would love to buy a second-hand antique lambsfoot, there must be loads in the UK, But ebay stopped selling knives in the UK years ago after being pressured by the government.

There are many new knife selling websites in the UK, even Amazon sells knives, So why does only eBay have a ban.

 

[Jack Black]

This is a Lambfoot that I ordered from Taylors Eye Witness in 2017 . It has a stainless blade and I ordered the Ramshorn covers . I am quite happy with it , but it is more expensive than A. Wright .



I hope you have good luck in finding the one that you want my friend .

Harry

Nice to see that one Harry

What a lovely, lovely, knife.

Thank you my friend

Good morning, Guardians! Must start the day out right.
I carry a lambsfoot...

...to deal with all my Spam!

How 'bout you?

Great start to the day Vince

Super K-9 Krypto standing guard. We'll have to leave our knives with him while we go to the hockey game.

One thing I like about ice hockey is that the players don't seem to "flop"--fake or exaggerate injuries to get a penalty call and a free kick or free throw (yep, soccer & basketball). And when they fight, the refs let them go at it. What can I say? I like fights! (Is that wrong?).

[Old Don Rickles joke: "I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out!"]

Yeah, I hate it when they start sobbing on the pitch because someone nearly stood on their foot or brushed past them

Roasted coffee this morning.

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Looking good John

I would love to buy a second-hand antique lambsfoot.

Look around, you shouldn't find an older Lambsfoot too hard to find

 

[dc50]

Good morning, Guardians! Must start the day out right.
I carry a lambsfoot...

...to deal with all my Spam!

How 'bout you?

 

[Prester John]

Double post

 

[Prester John]

Nice to see that one Harry



Thank you my friend



Great start to the day Vince



Yeah, I hate it when they start sobbing on the pitch because someone nearly stood on their foot or brushed past them

Looking good John



Look around, you shouldn't find an older Lambsfoot too hard to find

Love them Hanson brothers!

 

[Jack Black]

Love them Hanson brothers!

Me too, great characters Remind me of some of those Cold War USA v USSR games!

 

[Prester John]

Me too, great characters Remind me of some of those Cold War USA v USSR games!

Speaking of the Cold War, I LOVED Fischer beating Spasky in the 1972 World Chess Championship! Who'd have thought a chess match would get front page coverage?

 

[JB in SC]

You must be talking about John Deeres made before they went to 4 Cylinder Engines . Also in those days there were many other manufacturers than Formal ( Or International Harvester ) and John Deere and as a teenager , I worked on farms that had most of them . The Formal Super MD was a fine one and I ended up working for J.I.Case for 36 years .

Harry

Yep the two cylinder versions were called them Poppin' Johnnys or Johnny Poppers, been 60 years ago since we had a working farm in the family.

My late uncle worked for Deere in Iowa for over thirty years, my wife's late uncle had a large Deere dealership in Northeast Georgia for close to thirty years.

One of my friend's family owned an IH dealership since the 40's I guess. His dad sold a lot of Farmall Cubs. He had the first diesel IH Scout I'd ever seen, had a Nissan engine.

 

[Jack Black]

Speaking of the Cold War, I LOVED Fischer beating Spasky in the 1972 World Chess Championship! Who'd have thought a chess match would get front page coverage?

Yeah, my old man was a life-long chess obsessive, so I remember it well!

He actually used to get the English language 'Soviet Weekly' because they had a good chess column. I don't think I have ever seen a more boring publication in my life!

 

[5K Qs]

To keep my post to an acceptable length (10K characters or whatever the BF software limit is), I'm only going to include ebony lambsfoots here, even though there have been some lovely stag, wood, and horn lambsfoot examples posted recently.

Two of my most favorite things together.

FBC, your 2018 Guardians Ebony Lambsfoot (hereafter in my post called "2018 GELF") is looking both delicious AND nutritious!

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

Thanks for the historical videos, Jack!
Your 2018 GELF looks good for you, too, even in a pic free of a food context.

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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.
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Regards, Will

Will, I've lived my entire life in the U.S., driving on the right side of the road in cars that typically have the steering wheel on the left side of the car, nearest the center of the street. But in 1974, I bought a used AMC Ambassador from the US Post Office. It had the steering wheel on the right side of the car to facilitate a postal driver delivering mail to mailboxes on posts at the side of the street. (It also had no back seat for more storage of mail to be delivered.) I needed some time to adjust to driving from that unfamiliar perspective! I only had the car for a couple of months before a teen, high on illicit drugs and driving his girlfriend's car, "totaled" my car parked on the street in from of my apartment.

I carry a Lambsfoot...

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

How 'bout you?

I thought folks might like to watch this fairly recent interview with Stan Shaw (the blue-handled file next to his vice is one of the ones I've given him)
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Great video, Jack! Both Stan Shaw and the knife he made you are impressively memorable!

Breakfast with RALF, a little green tea in my Yixing dragon pot.

RALF, your 2018 GELF, is looking very cosmopolitan, Jeff, sitting in Missouri next to a Chinese teapot and showing off his British tang stamp! Are you dealing with the snowstorm OK?

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Ron, were you a baseball pitcher? If so, I'll bet you threw a mean curve ball! You're catching me flat-footed with that gorgeous ebony lambsfoot that's NOT a 2018 GELF!

Good Morning Guardians! It's Coffee time...
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I'm not really a coffee fan, but what you've shown with your lovely 2018 GELF, Dave, looks like it would have tastes that I'd enjoy!

Cheers Dwight, just curious. I grew up on a farm and have a mild interest in tractors.
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A pint of "God's Twisted Sister" a 4.5% Oatmeal Stout from Twisted Barrel Brewery.
With the obligatory pork pie of course .

I grew up on a farm, too, David, and spent a lot of hours in my youth in the seat of one tractor or another!
Your stout and pork pie look very appetizing! Do you ever ask for a lettuce leaf to satisfy your vegetable cravings??

Hi Jerry, I've never come across a Farmall in the UK, except this one at Pickering....
But we did have a Massey Ferguson like this one....
Nothing like the monsters you see nowadays of course.

Very cool Farmall pic (and other pics of tractors and other farm machinery), David! I'd guess most of my tractor hours were driving a Farmall H, raking hay or pulling wagons loaded with hay or straw bales and stacking the bales in the barn or pulling wagons loaded with haylage or corn silage and blowing it into silos. Our main tractor when I started was a Farmall M. My Dad usually drove that for mowing hay, baling hay (my youngest brother usually drove with my Dad on the wagon behind the baler), pulling the combine, running the corn picker, plowing, etc. We also had a little Allis Chalmers that we used for cultivating corn and general towing. When times got really busy we sometimes borrowed a little old Massey Ferguson from one of my grandfathers. At some point, my Dad bought a brand new Case 630 as our "big" tractor!

... I don't think I'd trust any of my brothers with any of my knives and I have close to 20 of them (brothers, that is).
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Thanks GT! I’m not babying it. I used it all day.

Not that I know of! Just a good name for a dog.
I have Krypto, too. May take his pic soon.

Super K-9 Krypto standing guard. We'll have to leave our knives with him while we go to the hockey game.

One thing I like about ice hockey is that the players don't seem to "flop"--fake or exaggerate injuries to get a penalty call and a free kick or free throw (yep, soccer & basketball). ...

Krypto is superb AND super, Vince! Your comment about hockey players reminds me of something I read once where a rugby player denigrated football (soccer) players by noting that in rugby, players spend the entire game pretending they're not hurt, while in soccer players spend the entire game pretending they are.

It's a linchpin GT. A draw pin is adjustable whereas the linchpin is not.

Thanks for expanding my vocal, Dwight. I think we used to call anything we used to fasten machinery to the drawbar of a tractor a hitch pin or draw pin.

No worries GT, I sit in my lazy boy when it calls for yoga.

"Cracker Jack on the Rocks" mmm sounds like a fancy Jack Daniels drink.

I’m here, I’m here! No need to send out the search party just yet, my friends!

Sorry, I’ve been very remiss in my posting, I’ve been super busy with work, although I’m on holidays at the moment.

It was good to spend awhile catching up on the thread.

Here’s a pic from summer in the Southern Hemisphere - ”Ol’ Reliable”, layin’ in a Carolina Reaper pepper plant.

Welcome back, Chin! Fine ebony lambsfoot that predates the 2018 GELFs, I'd wager.

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The pub is 'The Silent Woman' in Slaithwaite (pronounced 'Slawit', West Yorkshire. Avoid it like the plague!

Thanks for the kind words GT, Cracker Jack is looking mighty fine
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Thanks for the clarification on the pub name, Jack. Thanks also for the Cracker Jack compliment. And as long as the subject of waist sizes is being discussed, when did pants with odd numbered waist sizes disappear from many stores? 32" is really too tight for my comfort, and 34" falls down too easily (another advantage of my switch to suspenders ), but I can almost never find 33" pants.

It's been almost 35 years for us too. After all this time, I've become more organized and neat, while she has loosened the reins a bit.

Compromise is necessary in so many areas!

Jack, every time I see a picture of that beautiful knife it reminds me of this painting...

Great observation, John!

Since I restricted myself to ebony lambsfoot models in this post, I suppose I shouldn't post Cracker Jack photos here. Here's my 2018 GELF:


- GT

 

[Half/Stop]

Ron, were you a baseball pitcher? If so, I'll bet you threw a mean curve ball! You're catching me flat-footed with that gorgeous ebony lambsfoot that's NOT a 2018 GELF!

Gary I was not a baseball player or any other sport either! I went to work when I was 14 delivering papers after school. I mowed lawns in the summer. When I was in high school I worked in the afternoon and on weekends in a grocery store! Did I mention how much I am enjoying my retirement!!! Actually this beautiful Jet Black beauty came from Jack! His back was hurting back several years ago and he gave me this Lambsfoot to make it feel better!!!
Hint: emphasis on the word hurting!

 

[Prester John]

Krypto is superb AND super, Vince! Your comment about hockey players reminds me of something I read once where a rugby player denigrated football (soccer) players by noting that in rugby, players spend the entire game pretending they're not hurt, while in soccer players spend the entire game pretending they are.

Yeah, rugby players are tough! They keep playing even if they've broken something or are bleeding. Kind of like the old American football players--decades ago. Not like that anymore. Remember Romo's hurt pinky?

 

[Prester John]

Since I restricted myself to ebony lambsfoot models in this post, I suppose I shouldn't post Cracker Jack photos here. Here's my 2018 GELF:

That ebony knife is cracker, too, Gary.