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Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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(Just so everyone knows, the map chooses the pin colors on its own when I add someone. So if you don't like the color of your pin, blame Google, not me!
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Better?
(Just so everyone knows, the map chooses the pin colors on its own when I add someone. So if you don't like the color of your pin, blame Google, not me!
Do I have to get sick to start this diet?LOL!
I've posted these photos here before, but thought I'd post them again here as a visual aide for what I was saying about the swedge on the 2017 Guardian's knife. (It's the one of the left.) It's a beautifully done swedge, but it's not doing anyone any favors when it comes to pinching open the blade.
I understand there's one on the 2019 knife? 
On another note - I'm glad you guys are Guardians of something, because judging by the food dishes presented you aren't Guardians of your health- though you show many of my favorites!
Cheers, Ray
btb01 , @Pàdruig - Beautiful array of lambs! Some of the ebony is so utterly black. How beautiful it is.
donn - David such a beautiful photo of York Minster Cathedral. I am fascinated by this structure, its age and history, the fatal fire hazard of wood construction, the 1829 fire and subsequent discovery of Norman ruins beneath by John Brown. Your and Jack's ancient edifice photo documentation is a highlight of this thread for me.
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Such beautiful wood Dwight
Thanks Rob, great info
I will try and remember to ask my friend. Wright's still make a number of models with Bexoid scales
Yes, despite its flaws, this old Alfred Blackwell is a light and very pocketable knife
Yes, I've been inside a few times, and it is just an admin building with some warehousing. There is some machinery in there, but I doubt it has been used for decades. The place smells like an office, not a factory. Their knives have been made by many outworkers over the years, and by Wright's. Stan Shaw used to do a few for them, but fell out with the gaffer at the time. There had been a piece in the local paper about Stan, and the gaffer (who I know myself) had written, in very pompous tones, to inform them that Stan was only one of many cutlers in the town, and was rather disparaging about him. Since they were having difficulty getting knives made at the time, it probably wasn't a good idea. Stan used to deliver the knives he'd done, and then get paid, but after reading the letter, he went to the factory, leaving the knives on the front seat of his car. He went in and challenged the gaffer, and pointing towards the knives, told him him that if they had all these cutlers, "Tha won't be wanting these then!" No more knives from Stan!
Meant to add this to my last post, but I forgot.
And here's the much smaller St Cuthbert's Church, also in Wells, which you might recognize if you're familiar with the film Hot Fuzz.
And a little standard Ebony Lambsfoot content for good measure.
Sorry for missing your post until now Dwight, I am glad that Barrett quoted it
Wonderful pic of your AC
Absolutely fantastic Barrett
Great stuff, well done!
More wonderful photos David. Would I be correct in assuming the majority of the funds needed for upkeep and maintenance on all of these type structures are derived from private donations?Thank you it's not the best angle though. You need to be up on the walls to the get full extent of it. Funnily enough, having taken hundreds of pictures of it over the years I can't find a single one.
It's a building that's certainly seen some tribulations over the years. The worst one though was in the 1960's when they found they central tower was only weeks from collapsing
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You know I've never paid any attention to swedges before. But from that perspective they genuinely are a nice looking feature.
Well I'm going to blow my own trumpet here but I turn 46 in 6ish weeks. I can still run a mile flat out. Yesterday I cycled 13 miles and during the winter every chance I get I do this...
...which I not only find easy, but I actually really enjoy
Look forward to my next pie and beer picture coming this way shortly....
Thank you it's not the best angle though. You need to be up on the walls to the get full extent of it. Funnily enough, having taken hundreds of pictures of it over the years I can't find a single one.
It's a building that's certainly seen some tribulations over the years. The worst one though was in the 1960's when they found they central tower was only weeks from collapsing.
That Blackwell is fantastic to look at! And that's a great story of Stan there
And Jack that's a great shot of St' Wilfrid's tomb under Ripon. I've never been able to take a shot like that cos of the rubbish cameras I use
I'm on a sort of pilgrimage around the cathedrals of Britain. I've done about half of them but here's
Durham
Salisbury.
Lincoln.
"If you passed the pub as fast as you pass the chapel, you'd be better off!"BTW, there's supposed to be great views of the Cathedral from that new pub that's opened in the market-place (owned by the Tap/Tapped group)
South East Corner of Tennessee for me Barrett! Close to South Cleveland.I've never used this function of Google Maps, but maybe it'll work for this?
Guardian's of the Lambsfoot THE MAP
For those of you who only specified "Northern California" or "South Texas", I just dropped the pin wherever. If you want something more accurate, let me know. (If not, that's completely understandable, too.
I might qualify!No, you just have to be a little crazy!
No, you just have to be a little crazy!
Yep, swedges just like the 2017 and 2018 knives
Edit - Just thought I'd add a swedge teaser!
Good for you David, that's a great pic
Here's a couple
Thanks mate, and thanks for the tour
BTW, there's supposed to be great views of the Cathedral from that new pub that's opened in the market-place (owned by the Tap/Tapped group)
Had a burger & fries myself for lunch, Taylor. Drank water with it. I think I lost an ounce.
I consider my swedgeness teased...
Great pic of York Minster Jack. That is pretty much the view I had in mind whilst fruitlessly searching through my pics.
And if the new pub your talking about is the one I saw on Monday then that must be right as it's at a similar angle to the backside of M&S, which, from it's 3rd floor cafe has in my opinion the finest view of the Minster in York.
Thanks for the tip, yeah, I reckon that's the one 
My burger was amazing. Actually a pastrami burger with garlic fries.
The wheels don't fall off until you hit your early 50s.
Those are some grand buildings.Here's a couple
I've never used this function of Google Maps, but maybe it'll work for this?
Guardian's of the Lambsfoot THE MAP
For those of you who only specified "Northern California" or "South Texas", I just dropped the pin wherever. If you want something more accurate, let me know. (If not, that's completely understandable, too.
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