Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

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Thanks very much for your comments on the stag A Wright and Son lambsfoot. I'm not sure of the age. I acquired it in this condition about 15 years ago or so but I suspect it is much older than that. The stag is very nice and different from that recently used. This is another example.
 
smiling-knife said:
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Thanks very much for your comments on the stag A Wright and Son lambsfoot. I'm not sure of the age. I acquired it in this condition about 15 years ago or so but I suspect it is much older than that. The stag is very nice and different from that recently used. This is another example.
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That's another nice one :) The stag used was so much better back then wasn't it? :thumbsup:
 
^ Another beauty S-K, and the jigging is very interesting :thumbsup:
 
Jack the PO was amazingly quick!
Today, when I was back from my saturday stroll / restaurant / afternoon various refreshments I had the good surprise to see my doormat making a hump.
  1. the hump :
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  2. the parcel :
    I knew there was a Lambsfoot on my way, but there was much more in the bag, various touristic and historic literature about Yorkshire including the beer week program (I wish I could share a pinta with you at the Northern Monk or at the Turk's Head :)), an alu Thiers multi in a soft pouch, a Sheffield keyring, a '16 penny and a '47 schlin, etc, etc :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: (see picture below):
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    This reminds me a Prévert poetry I learned at school :
    Une pierre A stone
    deux maisons     two houses
    trois ruines     three ruins
    quatre fossoyeurs four gravediggers
    un jardin a garden
    des fleurs flowers
    un raton laveur     a racoon
    une douzaine d’huîtres     a dozen oysters
    un citron un pain a lemon a bread
    un rayon de soleil a sunray
    une lame de fond     a groundswell
    six musiciens six musicians
    une porte avec son paillasson a door with a doormat
    un monsieur décoré de la légion d’honneur     a Legion of Honour recipient Mister
    un autre raton laveur     another racoon

    Oh, no racoon!
    A big thank You, Jack.
    Now I feel I can be entitled as a member of the Guardians of the Lambsfoot! :)

    Btw, the rosewood handles are very nice and make the knife much much lighter than the blue jigged bone AW I have.
 
Wow JP, that was incredibly quick, maybe they invested in some new Royal Mail carrier-pigeons or something! :D Glad the package made it my friend :) :thumbsup:
 
Many lovely Lambsfoot knives being shown over the past couple of pages. Thanks for sharing folks! :thumbsup:

I had mine with me in the garden this morning. Among other things it helped slice off a taste of a pepper to see how hot it was:

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The chili is a serrano variety known as "hot rod". It lived up to its name. ;)
 
Jolipapa said:
Jack the PO was amazingly quick!
Today, when I was back from my saturday stroll / restaurant / afternoon various refreshments I had the good surprise to see my doormat making a hump.
  1. the hump :
    Jack01.jpg


  2. the parcel :
    I knew there was a Lambsfoot on my way, but there was much more in the bag, various touristic and historic literature about Yorkshire including the beer week program (I wish I could share a pinta with you at the Northern Monk or at the Turk's Head :)), an alu Thiers multi in a soft pouch, a Sheffield keyring, a '16 penny and a '47 schlin, etc, etc :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: (see picture below):
    Jack02.jpg

    This reminds me a Prévert poetry I learned at school :
    Une pierre A stone
    deux maisons     two houses
    trois ruines     three ruins
    quatre fossoyeurs four gravediggers
    un jardin a garden
    des fleurs flowers
    un raton laveur     a racoon
    une douzaine d’huîtres     a dozen oysters
    un citron un pain a lemon a bread
    un rayon de soleil a sunray
    une lame de fond     a groundswell
    six musiciens six musicians
    une porte avec son paillasson a door with a doormat
    un monsieur décoré de la légion d’honneur     a Legion of Honour recipient Mister
    un autre raton laveur     another racoon

    Oh, no racoon!
    A big thank You, Jack.
    Now I feel I can be entitled as a member of the Guardians of the Lambsfoot! :)

    Btw, the rosewood handles are very nice and make the knife much much lighter than the blue jigged bone AW I have.
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Nice one JP, that Prévert 'poetry' almost reads like some of Samuel Beckett's French poems!:D;)

Very nice hoard you assembled there, Jack, and generous as always, my friend.:thumbsup:

WhittlinAway said:
Many lovely Lambsfoot knives being shown over the past couple of pages. Thanks for sharing folks! :thumbsup:

I had mine with me in the garden this morning. Among other things it helped slice off a taste of a pepper to see how hot it was:

lMUkDFbh.jpg


The chili is a serrano variety known as "hot rod". It lived up to its name. ;)
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That looks like a tasty chilli, there Greg.:) I also like seeing those photos of everyones Lambsfoot knives at work.

This pic was an outtake (bad lighting) from a while ago, of a quick Lambsfoot-made, chilli fired snack.

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Japanese pickled radish, cucumber, garlic, silken tofu and a good dipping soy sauce, all chilled - and the key ingredient - fine slivers of an intense, homegrown Thai birds-eye chilli. These might not be super hot for a real chilli-fiend, but eating a small sliver will get your undivided attention pretty quick! They'd definitely be well north of 100,000 Scoville units, I think!

Jack Black said:
Cool pic of your hot chilli and luscious Lambsfoot Greg :thumbsup:

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Cheers everyone! :)
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Cheers! I enjoyed that idyllic 'English Pastoral' looking photo sequence with your Unity, out and about. Looks like you got out into some nice country.:)

I miss the craic at those great English and Irish pubs!:thumbsup::cool:

mrknife said:
i have not upgraded my account, but some more did arrive! shame there are some cracks in the buffalo horn :(

here is a family photo of the current collection as some have been gifted away during the trip

http://imgur.com/a/bWJy9
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Fine group, Jack (MrKnife).:thumbsup::cool:

They're all very nice, but I recall you saying the snakewood pair were advertised as being made by Wright's 'gaffer' - Mr Maleham himself? That's definitely a plus, and I think I recall reading somewhere that this is common to all the snakewood handled knives A. Wright & Son make, due to the cost of the cover material. Snakewood is one of the most expensive exotic timbers, I understand, and is extremely hard - 3800 lb/force on the Janka scale. By comparison, ebony can be around 3200 lb/force, and rosewood around 1780 lb/force. (The Janka scale measures how much force it takes to embed a .444" steel ball, to its full diameter, half its height into the timber sample.) As a reference point, White Ash, American Beech, Teak, and Red and English Oak are generally in the 1100-1300 lb/force hardness range.

Did you get a bit of mineral oil into those buffalo covers? The ends might be a bit dry. Natural materials often undergo a bit of dimensional change with long air flights and going from the conditions in one part of the world to another.

I had this one out again, over the weekend, after some maintenance sharpening and stropping:

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I will be sure to do that! Was a bit busy putting all my stuff away. Some of those knives came a little dirty, but will look into it tomorrow as to what needs to be treated. I intend to add other exotic woods to the bunch because those are the one that seems to come with the straight back in stead of the sway back. Thanks for the advice! Indeed, one of the snakewood was gifted to Charlie and I have the other. He approved of the quality of the Mr.Maleham knives and we did have a discussion regarding those during one of the nights of the rendezvous. some of em seemed to require some modification and Charlie provided some useful advice for me to be aware of during any attempts on dropping that stove pipe kick
 
mrknife said:
I will be sure to do that! Was a bit busy putting all my stuff away. Some of those knives came a little dirty, but will look into it tomorrow as to what needs to be treated. I intend to add other exotic woods to the bunch because those are the one that seems to come with the straight back in stead of the sway back. Thanks for the advice! Indeed, one of the snakewood was gifted to Charlie and I have the other. He approved of the quality of the Mr.Maleham knives and we did have a discussion regarding those during one of the nights of the rendezvous. some of em seemed to require some modification and Charlie provided some useful advice for me to be aware of during any attempts on dropping that stove pipe kick
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Thanks Jack - it's interesting to hear of the various examples of Lambsfoot knives, both modern and 'classic era', being shown around at the GEC RV, this year.:)

It sounds like a fantastic experience, and I would have loved to have been privy to some of the Lambsfoot knife related conversation (along with everything else, of course) with all those great Porch folk in attendance.:cool::):thumbsup:

Did you get a chance to see Harry (@Old Engineer) and Ron's (@Half/Stop) superb examples?:thumbsup:

If you haven't seen them, there's some tips here, and in post 1270 on the same page, on smoothing out your Lambsfoot knives a little, should you need them. They've worked well for me.
 
mrknife said:
i have not upgraded my account, but some more did arrive! shame there are some cracks in the buffalo horn :(

here is a family photo of the current collection as some have been gifted away during the trip

http://imgur.com/a/bWJy9
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Those look good Jack :thumbsup: Can you post a pic of the buffalo horn?

Cambertree said:
Very nice hoard you assembled there, Jack, and generous as always, my friend.:thumbsup:

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Cheers! I enjoyed that idyllic 'English Pastoral' looking photo sequence with your Unity, out and about. Looks like you got out into some nice country.:)

I miss the craic at those great English and Irish pubs!:thumbsup::cool:

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Snakewood is one of the most expensive exotic timbers, I understand, and is extremely hard - 3800 lb/force on the Janka scale. By comparison, ebony can be around 3200 lb/force, and rosewood around 1780 lb/force. (The Janka scale measures how much force it takes to embed a .444" steel ball, to its full diameter, half its height into the timber sample.) As a reference point, White Ash, American Beech, Teak, and Red and English Oak are generally in the 1100-1300 lb/force hardness range.

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I had this one out again, over the weekend, after some maintenance sharpening and stropping:

EESZs7A.jpg
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Thank you very much my friend, it is great to see you post, have you been on your travels again? :) Excellent pics, as always, and that looks like a tasty snack. I had a great weekend, with two excellent hikes, one in North Yorkshire, and the other in Derbyshire. Thanks for the information on snakewood, and the other woods, I wondered why it was so expensive! Something I should shell out for at some point :) :thumbsup:

I'm carrying the Unity again today :thumbsup:

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Cambertree said:
That looks like a tasty chilli, there Greg.:) I also like seeing those photos of everyones Lambsfoot knives at work.
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+1 :thumbsup: I think we only really learn about knife patterns, what works and what doesn't, if we use them. To those unfamiliar with the Lambsfoot, it probably looks a little odd, but when you start using it, you can really get to appreciate the true magic of its design, something you certainly learned very quickly my friend :) :thumbsup:
 
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