- Joined
- Jun 29, 2014
- Messages
- 1,291
Nice work Jer. I was going to suggest lodging a small piece of oiled matchstick/toothpick/leather in the bottom of the blade channel, so it rests under the kick and raises the nail nick - if you have enough room to raise the point without it sitting proud. But it looks like you've solved the problem with panache. I like the result.
Interesting to read peoples thoughts on the pen secondary in the Lambsfoot pattern as well. I don't have one, as I felt when handling them in person, that they were a little bit bulkier than I would probably pocket-carry frequently. But I suppose it would be possible to make a dual bladed Lambsfoot with very thin, contoured covers and brass liner scales, so it was equal in width to a single blade version.
The pen blade seems a good secondary blade to have, in theory. In other two blade jack-knife patterns, it can be a bit redundant, for my uses. I only really deploy them, as Bart said, in settings where you don't want to alarm people. For some of the old timers in Australia, the pen blade was their most used pocket knife blade, though.
I tend to agree that one of the interesting things about the Lambsfoot pattern, is how after using it awhile, you don't really miss a bellied blade style that much. This was kind of a revelation to me, as when I started getting into knives, I was all about the drop point style, with its full, sweeping belly curve.
Although there's no traditional precedent for this, I wonder if a useful secondary blade in a two bladed Lambsfoot, might actually be a short, spey/castrator blade, like a stockman knife size?
Awesome ox-horn A. Wright you got there @flatblackcapo. My one's nearly a mirror image in its cover patterning:
Interesting to read peoples thoughts on the pen secondary in the Lambsfoot pattern as well. I don't have one, as I felt when handling them in person, that they were a little bit bulkier than I would probably pocket-carry frequently. But I suppose it would be possible to make a dual bladed Lambsfoot with very thin, contoured covers and brass liner scales, so it was equal in width to a single blade version.
The pen blade seems a good secondary blade to have, in theory. In other two blade jack-knife patterns, it can be a bit redundant, for my uses. I only really deploy them, as Bart said, in settings where you don't want to alarm people. For some of the old timers in Australia, the pen blade was their most used pocket knife blade, though.
I tend to agree that one of the interesting things about the Lambsfoot pattern, is how after using it awhile, you don't really miss a bellied blade style that much. This was kind of a revelation to me, as when I started getting into knives, I was all about the drop point style, with its full, sweeping belly curve.
Although there's no traditional precedent for this, I wonder if a useful secondary blade in a two bladed Lambsfoot, might actually be a short, spey/castrator blade, like a stockman knife size?
Awesome ox-horn A. Wright you got there @flatblackcapo.
My one's nearly a mirror image in its cover patterning:
Last edited:
