Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Rayray70]

I've been working too much lately and neglecting my lambs foot. Not today! Happy Birthday Jack

 

[donn]

David, looks like a pretty cool place, but I am, befuddled it seems like it's built in the middle of nowhere?

It is...

I just finished the Wikipedia article on Tan Hill Inn Quote: "The building dates to the 17th century, We're talking old here!

Is this Jack!!!

It's certainly not me...

LOL! Great post David, I was looking at that beeswax polish in Barnitt's the other week

Barnitt's is where that beeswax came from. Though I think I'll find some proper natural beeswax.
What's the new torch?

Found this Lamb, dirt cheap. It had the look I love with the older ones. Has a few issues, but plenty of life left. The Tang is marked Hale Forge, Sheffield. Fearless Leader and resident Sheffield Cutlery Expert, Jack Black may be able to provide more details. I’ve already named it...Gus.

What a stunning looking old knife; especially the bolsters.

Awesome pic Kevin I bumped into this feller today, with a bike from the 1920's. Thought you'd like the pics

I love old bikes. I'd ride one myself but I'm not so keen on old bike brakes...

This thread has shot past! I've just scan read through the last two days; but there's some fantastic pics as always.

I've just spent the last two days in the Burton-upon-Trent beer festival.

Held in the Victorian Town Hall.

Friday lunchtime had the Wurlitzer organ recital. Apparently one of only 23 remaining in the country.

Finally, Happy Birthday Jack! Hope you've had a good day

 

[waverave]

In a recent auction, my wife won a Santa Clara County atlas from 1876...perfectly mint condition. Filled with detailed maps and drawings from this area at that time. The first thing I said when she showed me the content was...."ooooh that would make some cool backdrops for knife photos!" lol. Working on it.

 

[cigarrodog]

Thank you David for the kind words. It sure looks like good times were had at the Victorian Town Hall. Always look forward to your images.

waverave That Atlas looks to be as

R Rayray70 Excellent tabletop shot of your Lamb.

 

[Ramrodmb]

I meant to post this earlier, Ashley's dad uses it as a paper-weight

That bolster die is awesome, Jack.
Happy Birthday to you!

 

[tmd_87]

Carried this one! Happy Saturday!

 

[tmd_87]

In a recent auction, my wife won a Santa Clara County atlas from 1876...perfectly mint condition. Filled with detailed maps and drawings from this area at that time. The first thing I said when she showed me the content was...."ooooh that would make some cool backdrops for knife photos!" lol. Working on it.
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My great great grandfather was operating mines in Butte and Plumas counties at the time of the map being made. His son, was an attorney and later on would be a state senator. Cool history waverave !

 

[WDJ]

Happy birthday Jack. I hope you had a good day.

 

[Fodderwing]

 

[5K Qs]

Another feeble attempt to "catch up" in this thread by selecting one (out of many) memorable pics or intriguing posts from each page to which to respond. No offense intended to the dozens of valuable posts I didn't include! I'll start with comments on a couple of posts I saw today, then drop back into living in the past again.

First let me be a latecomer in wishing Mr. Jack Black a happy birthday! I hope you have many more, Jack, and feel healthier for each successive one!

Happy Birthday, Jack!

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Great song choice, Preston! I remember on my daughter's 2nd birthday, I started singing that to her (and being incredibly talented, I was doing the instrumental parts as well as the vocals: doo doo doo doo doo doo doo dum tsk tsk tsk, etc) and she stopped running around the house in her diaper and started DANCING!! We'd never seen her do that before (and she certainly didn't inherit a "dancing gene" from ME).

... I came home and was able to go outside where some other residents were and sit, chat and enjoy the afternoon. I'ts amazing what a little for sunshine will do for not only your body but also your soul. There has been a physical therapist coming here everyday for over a week and she has got me able to walk 5ft or so feet on a walker. That may not sound like much but after living in a wheelchair as long as I have I am ecstatic by the possibility of walking again and the doctor believes if I work hard I should be able to now. ...

Randy, glad you're home and doing better and that you could get out into some sunshine! Walking 5 feet this week, maybe 10 or 15 next week, and before you know it you'l be dancing a jig to Preston's birthday song!

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Of course GT! I remember you mentioning that now It's a handsome looking grain
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Thanks to the perpetually sniveling snot bags called my work colleagues, Fisherman's Friends are the only thing that's been keeping me breathing for the past 4 days

Thanks for the good word about my Valley Jack, David, and thanks for sharing the fine pic of your Eye of Sauron horn! I hope you're starting to breathe easier by now.

Thanks y'all! It's the the knife, I'm tellin ya.
Have a killer Tuesday everyone.

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Splendid photo, FBC; that knife makes me "feel alive" with the "double-blip" on the EKG proving we're not flat-lining quite yet!

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Love that pic of a stag foraging in the field, Dwight!

Since everybody is showing their pets, here's my dog named "Jack".
He's a McNab... look it up. He's getting old (12 yrs) but is still in fantastic condition.

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One more Sunshine and Ironwood shot... Just because it's nice outside.

Handsome hound, John! Any territorial issues developing between Jack and Sköll??

He's a little camera shy.

Hey guys, I think I discovered in my Père David a bird (like a Phoenix born again), look and say something...

I certainly see the flying bird, José! But I see more disturbing images just above it!
Directly above the bird's head, I see a baby with arms spread wide and his head touching the center of your top red line! And just to the baby's right (our left as we look at the photo), I see the face of a cadaverous older man with the baby's right hand obscuring the old man's left eye! Does anyone else see those images?? (I had more eye surgery last week, so my visual powers are quite compromised at the moment.)

It seemeth unto me that a Lambsfoot is a right goodly instrument for cutting things withal; therefore I shall carry a Lambsfoot.

Yea, verily.

Unusual dialect, but stunning stag, Vince!

Yes. It grieves me to cast pearls before the swine.

You've got a pearl lambsfoot, Dwight??? This old swine says, "Please, cast away, good sir!"

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I like your Totem name for your ironwood, Dave, but after seeing that pile side pic, Beauty (pile) and the Beast (mark) would not be inappropriate!

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(I tried to resist posting this, but the whim wouldn't go away )
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"Whim ... away" - very clever, Jack (and it took me 3 readings to catch it )!
Any idea about instrumentation in that recording? There's some very high, ethereal parts that I can't decide whether they're vocal or something like an Australian didgeridoo.

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Good morning Guardians! I’m starting early this morning and I’ve got this beautiful thing in my pocket!

Tough to sleep in when you know something like that awaits you, Ron!

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Great photo (again) of one of your dark versions of ironwood, Dwight!

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Dynamite diagonals, Alan!

...This is my latest flashlight

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Jumpin' Jack Black Flashlight and Lambsfoot!

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I got lucky the other day. @JTB_5 was offering his knife with a Lambsfoot modd. @traumkommode performed the surgery and put on a superb finish. Thank you Joshua.
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Found this Lamb, dirt cheap. It had the look I love with the older ones. Has a few issues, but plenty of life left. The Tang is marked Hale Forge, Sheffield. Fearless Leader and resident Sheffield Cutlery Expert, Jack Black may be able to provide more details. I’ve already named it...Gus.

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Congrats on your purchase of Joshua's first (?) lambsfoot and that "golden oldie", Harvey; very lovely knives! Why Gus? Does Gus have stag covers, or is that some kind of bone?

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

I will be off down to the market early in the morning with Big Rose

Big Rose and the Garlic Cloves appearing at the market all week to entertain one and all!

An Ashley’s choice with an English garden backdrop, this one has been back across the pond a few times now.

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Gorgeous stag, Russell! The green grass and daffodils are making me yearn for spring! Congrats on welcoming a new son to the family.

Took a new flock photo today, as I've exchanged the 2019 and the Micarta Navy lambsfoot. I think this one came out pretty well.

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As I think I told Mark earlier this week, that is probably my favorite pose for a single-bladed folder; so triumphant!! (See my Cracker Jack portrayed in a similar way below. )

Good morning, Dwight and John.

Mark, your ironwood pics are all home runs!!

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That horn is looking hale and hearty, FBC!

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That Cracker Jack lambsfoot has some cracking good stag on it.

Thanks, Vince.

Well, re-reading Melville's magnum opus at the moment: whales on the brain! (Even bought some clam chowder the other day, after reading about Ishmael's and Queequeg's meals at the inn in Nantucket. I'm a "method reader"! ).

Understandable. You should see if you could find a pic (probably in the totin' today thread) of @Pt-Luso's "whale knife"; you'd really enjoy it! (Not a lambsfoot, so we can't request him to give us a peek here. )

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Where've ya been ya waster?!
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They sliced up another of my eyes last week, so my tried and true glasses are no good any more; I'm not sure WHERE I've been!

It looks like a bee picking pollen from the beautiful flower...

As usual one more day to walk in my pocket...

Two more spectacular pics of your 2019 Guardians Ironwood Lambsfoot, José! It looks like spring has definitely arrived in your part of Portugal!

Cracker Jack has been my lambsfoot companion all week:
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- GT

 

[Prester John]

I certainly see the flying bird, José! But I see more disturbing images just above it!
Directly above the bird's head, I see a baby with arms spread wide and his head touching the center of your top red line! And just to the baby's right (our left as we look at the photo), I see the face of a cadaverous older man with the baby's right hand obscuring the old man's left eye! Does anyone else see those images?? (I had more eye surgery last week, so my visual powers are quite compromised at the moment.)

I see the baby, but not the old man. I see a Labrador Retriever, though.

 

[dc50]

like your Totem name for your ironwood, Dave, but after seeing that pile side pic, Beauty (pile) and the Beast (mark) would not be inappropriate!

I see you GT!

 

[Prester John]

Understandable. You should see if you could find a pic (probably in the totin' today thread) of @Pt-Luso's "whale knife"; you'd really enjoy it! (Not a lambsfoot, so we can't request him to give us a peek here. )

I have seen that whale knife: beautiful!

 

[dc50]

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Magnificence! Dwight

 

[r8shell]

I certainly see the flying bird, José! But I see more disturbing images just above it!
Directly above the bird's head, I see a baby with arms spread wide and his head touching the center of your top red line! And just to the baby's right (our left as we look at the photo), I see the face of a cadaverous older man with the baby's right hand obscuring the old man's left eye! Does anyone else see those images?? (I had more eye surgery last week, so my visual powers are quite compromised at the moment.)

Daaang, GT! Well, now I see them, but I don't think I want to. Best wishes for continuing vision improvement.

I see the baby, but not the old man. I see a Labrador Retriever, though.

All this finding of images in the knives reminds me of that old dirty joke about Rorschach Tests. "Hey, you're the one showing me the dirty pictures, Doc!"

 

[dc50]

Rorschach Tests

I know eh it gets a bit weird afterwhile, Oh look I see the Cookie Monster!

 

[Cambertree]

Hope all the Guardians have a fantastic weekend. Mine has started out great I had not been outside other than the ride home from the hospital for 4 weeks and yesterday was a beautiful day so my daughter came got me and took me for breakfast and to get a haircut. I came home and was able to go outside where some other residents were and sit, chat and enjoy the afternoon. I'ts amazing what a little for sunshine will do for not only your body but also your soul. There has been a physical therapist coming here everyday for over a week and she has got me able to walk 5ft or so feet on a walker. That may not sound like much but after living in a wheelchair as long as I have I am ecstatic by the possibility of walking again and the doctor believes if I work hard I should be able to now. So I just wanted to let you, my friends hear the good news.
I'm sorry to be talking about myself but I'm as giddy as school girl after this news.

That’s fantastic news Randy! What a joy it must be to walk in the sunshine again. I’m glad to hear you’re doing well, my friend. We’re pretty lucky to enjoy the benefits of modern medicine, but nine days in hospital, then four weeks indoors is no joke.

Here’s some more sun for you, buddy:

(Another Grapes of Wrath Lambsfoot pic too @JohnDF. )

 

[Fodderwing]

Love that pic of a stag foraging in the field, Dwight!

Thanks GT.

You've got a pearl lambsfoot, Dwight??? This old swine says, "Please, cast away, good sir!

Great photo (again) of one of your dark versions of ironwood, Dwight

Thank you my friend.

As I think I told Mark earlier this week, that is probably my favorite pose for a single-bladed folder; so triumphant!! (See my Cracker Jack portrayed in a similar way below.

When the Cracker Jack come marching home!... I'm glad to hear your vision treatment is progressing Gary! Hope you're adjusting slowly to the easy life.

Magnificence! Dwight

Thanks Pal. I trust everything is moving along smoothly with your transition. I'm sending positive thoughts your way for new buyers.

Some great knives posted lately Guardians. Enjoy your weekend.

 

[cigarrodog]

Another feeble attempt to "catch up" in this thread by selecting one (out of many) memorable pics or intriguing posts from each page to which to respond. No offense intended to the dozens of valuable posts I didn't include! I'll start with comments on a couple of posts I saw today, then drop back into living in the past again.

First let me be a latecomer in wishing Mr. Jack Black a happy birthday! I hope you have many more, Jack, and feel healthier for each successive one!


Great song choice, Preston! I remember on my daughter's 2nd birthday, I started singing that to her (and being incredibly talented, I was doing the instrumental parts as well as the vocals: doo doo doo doo doo doo doo dum tsk tsk tsk, etc) and she stopped running around the house in her diaper and started DANCING!! We'd never seen her do that before (and she certainly didn't inherit a "dancing gene" from ME).


Randy, glad you're home and doing better and that you could get out into some sunshine! Walking 5 feet this week, maybe 10 or 15 next week, and before you know it you'l be dancing a jig to Preston's birthday song!


Thanks for the good word about my Valley Jack, David, and thanks for sharing the fine pic of your Eye of Sauron horn! I hope you're starting to breathe easier by now.


Splendid photo, FBC; that knife makes me "feel alive" with the "double-blip" on the EKG proving we're not flat-lining quite yet!


Love that pic of a stag foraging in the field, Dwight!



Handsome hound, John! Any territorial issues developing between Jack and Sköll??




I certainly see the flying bird, José! But I see more disturbing images just above it!
Directly above the bird's head, I see a baby with arms spread wide and his head touching the center of your top red line! And just to the baby's right (our left as we look at the photo), I see the face of a cadaverous older man with the baby's right hand obscuring the old man's left eye! Does anyone else see those images?? (I had more eye surgery last week, so my visual powers are quite compromised at the moment.)


Unusual dialect, but stunning stag, Vince!


You've got a pearl lambsfoot, Dwight??? This old swine says, "Please, cast away, good sir!"


I like your Totem name for your ironwood, Dave, but after seeing that pile side pic, Beauty (pile) and the Beast (mark) would not be inappropriate!


"Whim ... away" - very clever, Jack (and it took me 3 readings to catch it )!
Any idea about instrumentation in that recording? There's some very high, ethereal parts that I can't decide whether they're vocal or something like an Australian didgeridoo.


Tough to sleep in when you know something like that awaits you, Ron!


Great photo (again) of one of your dark versions of ironwood, Dwight!


Dynamite diagonals, Alan!


Jumpin' Jack Black Flashlight and Lambsfoot!



Congrats on your purchase of Joshua's first (?) lambsfoot and that "golden oldie", Harvey; very lovely knives! Why Gus? Does Gus have stag covers, or is that some kind of bone?

- GT

Hi Gary. Thank you for the nice words. I chose the name Gus,because it sounded like a name from the past. Someone who was a hard worker, like this knife must have been. It just popped into my head. I can’t tell if it’s stag or bone Stag like Jack Black referred to it as. Take care.

Cambertree Nice view of your Lamb and its’ sunny surroundings.

Fodderwing The best as always.