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That’s a beauty Brent!Congratulations
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Thank you very much Ron!!
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That’s a beauty Brent!Congratulations
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Your Ironwood deserves oohing and ahhing in any light. Congratulations.
Nice grain congrats!A quick shout to everyone and a deep thank you to Jack Black to say my Ironwood Lambsfoot arrived today in pristine shape.... It is a wonderful knife in so many ways.... Beautiful wood, construction, fit and finish.... When the blade closes it sounds like a .303 Enfield going off..... I'm 69 years old and racked with crippling Psoriatic Arthritis..... But I am able to pull the blade from the well without blowing a cork.... The wood is absolutely stunning, lightly figured with warming striations of honey colored quarter sawn handles...... Perfection is the only way I can describe it..... Here is a quickie snapshot taken in haste this evening.... Tomorrow I will get a couple better shots in subdued natural lighting with a eye catching background to make you ohh and ahh...... Thank you again Jack Black for being a man of vision and action who facilitated this wonderful knife from my ancestral homeland...... View attachment 1086629
Nice grain congrats!
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Beautiful iron maiden Chin and the produce delectable.
Thanks, mate, I do think the one I got has a lot of character. Yours is looking mighty slicey!
A quick shout to everyone and a deep thank you to Jack Black to say my Ironwood Lambsfoot arrived today in pristine shape.... It is a wonderful knife in so many ways.... Beautiful wood, construction, fit and finish.... When the blade closes it sounds like a .303 Enfield going off..... I'm 69 years old and racked with crippling Psoriatic Arthritis..... But I am able to pull the blade from the well without blowing a cork.... The wood is absolutely stunning, lightly figured with warming striations of honey colored quarter sawn handles...... Perfection is the only way I can describe it..... Here is a quickie snapshot taken in haste this evening.... Tomorrow I will get a couple better shots in subdued natural lighting with a eye catching background to make you ohh and ahh...... Thank you again Jack Black for being a man of vision and action who facilitated this wonderful knife from my ancestral homeland...... View attachment 1086629
Thanks, Jack. It would be pretty hard to take a bad photo of these '19's
tmd_87 I think it is a "M" but shhhh don't tell Mykel.
@mykel m If yours has "FBC" in the grain, you have yourself a trade!
I thought about naming it "M" when I first saw it. The name "M" has a fond place in my heart because I sold a old VW single cab that is known as "M". Here's a pic. The guy I sold it has added quite a bit of "flair" to it
When I had it it was grey and plain as can be.
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Thanks fellas. Like I told Jack, it's hard to take a bad pic of these knives, they are just so dang good lookin' !
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The top one on the very left of the picture. Thanks.Only joking mateIf you can describe where your knife is in the pic, I'll edit it
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Another beauty. They keep coming!Thanks Dwight!
Cheers Joshua!
Congratulations Brent, looking forward to seeing how that honey amber beauty will show up that luminescent grain in some natural light.They definitely do have a similar authoritative sound to a shot, or a bolt or slide clacking shut!
Awesome photo, knife and van, Kevin.
Ha, I keep thinking of the name Moriarty, when I see your knife. I imagine it’s just the thing a smooth, Victorian villain might carry.
Hey, I meant to ask you - I always enjoy your patina shots - what do you use your knives on to get that blue colour?
Speaking of letter Ms, wolves, bears and Easter Island statues: I think I have a yawning crocodile on mine!
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Many thanks, I'll do my best to increase it...![]()
Stag for Thursday:
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Did you happen to take a pile side group shot, Jack?
I love the taste of habanero too, got a few plants coming along nicely with green pods on ‘em at the moment.
This red habanero ‘rescue plant’ which was basically given to me as a ‘dead’ twig, has been a surprising little producer.
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(The ‘stones’ from bottom are the Atoma 140, Venev bonded diamond 400/800, Shapton ceramic 5000, Spyderco Ultrafine, and a homemade, smoothside leather strop charged with 0.5 micron CBN emulsion.)
Jack Black regarding the pull on these knives, the consensus seems to strongly favour leaving them as they are. I agree. As you say, you can tune them to be a bit lighter and smoother, but you can’t really adjust them the other way easily.
I think my fingertips have also gotten a bit more used to the ‘Sheffield pull’ too. But I do wonder what the makers are thinking, with the pull on some pen blades and such. I’d never carry my small golden Ox-horn Lambsfoot - why have a knife where you have to stop what you’re doing and carefully focus on it, when opening and closing, to make sure it doesn’t fly out of your hands BFO style?
My 2019 Desert Ironwood seems to have a slightly snappier and heavier pull than my 2017 and 2018 Guardians knives, but after a little polishing of the tang corners with a scrap of leather with diamond paste on it, it’s smooth and easy to open with a firm pinch.
Also, you asked earlier about a Lignum Vitae shadow pattern Lambsfoot knife with a birds-eye pivot pin. I’d absolutely be up for one of them, if Wright’s could pull it off. Ashley might enjoy the new challenge!
I understand that Lignum Vitae is known as one of the most ‘steel friendly’ materials because of that self-lubricating quality. It’s pretty interesting to see this list of current industrial users of the timber.
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The pics in this thread just get better and better! What a treat to scroll through a few pages!
A quick shout to everyone and a deep thank you to Jack Black to say my Ironwood Lambsfoot arrived today in pristine shape.... It is a wonderful knife in so many ways.... Beautiful wood, construction, fit and finish.... When the blade closes it sounds like a .303 Enfield going off..... I'm 69 years old and racked with crippling Psoriatic Arthritis..... But I am able to pull the blade from the well without blowing a cork.... The wood is absolutely stunning, lightly figured with warming striations of honey colored quarter sawn handles...... Perfection is the only way I can describe it..... Here is a quickie snapshot taken in haste this evening.... Tomorrow I will get a couple better shots in subdued natural lighting with a eye catching background to make you ohh and ahh...... Thank you again Jack Black for being a man of vision and action who facilitated this wonderful knife from my ancestral homeland...... View attachment 1086629
Thanks, Jack. It would be pretty hard to take a bad photo of these '19's
tmd_87 I think it is a "M" but shhhh don't tell Mykel.
@mykel m If yours has "FBC" in the grain, you have yourself a trade!
I thought about naming it "M" when I first saw it. The name "M" has a fond place in my heart because I sold a old VW single cab that is known as "M". Here's a pic. The guy I sold it has added quite a bit of "flair" to it
When I had it it was grey and plain as can be.
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Thanks fellas. Like I told Jack, it's hard to take a bad pic of these knives, they are just so dang good lookin' !
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Speaking of letter Ms, wolves, bears and Easter Island statues: I think I have a yawning crocodile on mine!
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The top one on the very left of the picture. Thanks.
Each photo seems to be nicer than the one before. The ironwood has unbelievable character. The grain in the wood just catches the light.View attachment 1086741
Thank you. It's the wood.Wow! Amazing photo Alan![]()
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Thank you. It's the wood.
My AC lambsfoot definitely has a lighter pull than my 2019 Guardian.
Thanks, Jack. It's a wonderful gift that just keeps giving, thanks again.Nice African Rosewood John![]()
The 2019 guardians are lovely looking pieces,just a shame the damn things have such a strong pull.