Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Prester John]

There sure are a lot of super-heroes I never heard of. I kind of figured that compared to Superman, any other superhero was pretty feeble. And some of them aren't superheros at at all, for my money, like Batman and Green Hornet.
I did like the way Green Hornet drove the Black Beauty through his house (or rather Kato did), and I greatly admired Miss Case's efficiency on the TV show.

Superman is still the best.

Best part of the Green Hornet was watching Bruce Lee whup all the bad guys. I bet the show was cancelled because the sidekick outshone the star.

But speaking of nightmares, I dreamed that the downtown churches had all combined their buildings into one dome-like complex. There were restrooms only in the chancels and they were open only on Sunday. It wasn't Sunday. I probably got up just in time.

I've had similar nightmares, too. Recently was on a ship looking desperately for "the head." Woke up just in time.

 

[Jack Black]

When the wife and I were around 22 or 23 the movie THE EXORCIST was released we had never seen anything like it!! The truth be told it scared the #$% out of us It's funny how we get desensitized over time as we could watch it now, without having nightmares.

I've never seen it Dave! I was too young when it came out (and they were picketing cinemas here), and it's just not the sort of thing I'd watch today

It's beautiful! this has to be the Holy grail of the Lambsfoot well done Jack.

Thanks Dave, I do think they are a truly special run Hope everyone loves them to bits

Thanks, Jack!
How did the BFO take it? Showed remorse, I hope. He should certainly reimburse you for any expenses you had fixing the knife. And buy you lots of beer!

Shame-faced Vince! He kept saying he felt bad about it, but I just told him, "Not as bad as I bl@@dy feel mate!" He deserves to suffer a bit!

Such beautiful knives!

Thanks Vince Just too a couple of snaps while I was out touring Leeds with Lucy and Pearl

Lucy wasn't pleased about this Vampire Hunter's kit in the Royal Armouries museum!

Just hiding. It's still there!

Good stuff Fairly resilient then

Finally got one! Bought it new-preowned from a chap on one of the UK slipjoint pages. My first thoughts were that the work was pretty shoddy...
-handful or gaps (I can excuse those, I expected them)
-chisel ground (?!)
-gaps where the covers meet the bolsters
-spring stands proud when closed
-the tang looks like it came into contact with the liner when open so they ground the corner of the tang off...

But then I thought, you know what, they cost less than £20; and thats retail. What's he making on a knife? £8? £10? The poor bloke has to make a living and realistically, this isn't a knife for a collector... Its for beating on every day and getting the job done and I'm confident it'll do that just fine.

Sharpened it up and now I find it sort of charming! It's been in my pocket for most of the week. Half tempted to file the kick a bit to lower the spring but concerned about the clearance...

While I think that's a very decent working knife for the price, it has to be said that there are a lot of old 'seconds' floating around. One bloke used to come to the works each week to buy them, and a number of regular dealers also purchased them. Unfortunately they were never marked as 'seconds'. There have very recently been some changes at Wright's, and they will no longer be selling 'seconds', they'll either be put right, or they'll be scrapped. That said, if I pay a small amount for a knife, I don't expect the same quality I'd expect from something that cost many times more. Most of Wright's customers are ordinary blokes, who use the knives for gardening or at work, and they're more interested in the price than the position of the spring in all three positions or whether they can see some light if they look into the blade well. Naturally, the job of producing their cheapest knives is not given to Wright's best cutlers. I do think there's been a big general increase in quality over the past few years though, and I think it will continue to improve. Prices may also increase though. Nice pic

Good Morning Guardians
Has anybody been reading the Watchmen re-boot?

I bought the first issue (first time I've been in a comic shop in 20-odd years), but forgot to get any of the others. I'll probably wait until it comes out as a collection, as I think the price of two pints for a comic is a bit dear

There sure are a lot of super-heroes I never heard of. I kind of figured that compared to Superman, any other superhero was pretty feeble. And some of them aren't superheros at at all, for my money, like Batman and Green Hornet.
I did like the way Green Hornet drove the Black Beauty through his house (or rather Kato did), and I greatly admired Miss Case's efficiency on the TV show.

But speaking of nightmares, I dreamed that the downtown churches had all combined their buildings into one dome-like complex. There were restrooms only in the chancels and they were open only on Sunday. It wasn't Sunday. I probably got up just in time.

Rats, I left out poor Old Stumpy.

Poor Stumpy! I never enjoyed Superman as much as Spiderman, for example, he was just too POWERFUL Mind you, having said that, I did like Thor!

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Sure is my friend, great photo

I sharpened this one last night to carry today and it started to get very sharp so I spent a good 30 minutes maybe more giving it an unbelievable edge it will feather paper.

Great stuff Randy, it's good steel

Then you obviously didn't see Batman kick Superman's "behind" all over the place.

Really?! The Judge Dredd/Batman encounter was good

Here is a sampling of my Yixing collection with the tea each one infuses (the ONLY one, to be more precise!).
RALF is presiding over the whole event.

Great pic Jeff

Yes, he used Kryptonite.

This is my Kryptonite...
That's why I keep it safely locked away.

NO?!

Fantastic John

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Beautiful atmospheric shot Dwight

 

[pjsjr]

I saw that blade, but didn't really really see it until this morning! Wow!

What was the Leslie Nielsen spoof of the Gary Oldman vampire movie called? Mel Brooks as Van Helsing. (Never mind, I can google it.)

Let's Scare Jessica to Death was such a scary movie that I built myself a two-foot-high cross with a stand. (The description in the TV Guide had nothing to do with the plot of the movie.)
Gretchen Corbett (Rockford's lawyer until she wanted to be paid what she was worth) as the little sister vampire, a pale redhead whose name I really should remember as the principal vampire, and Zohra Lampert (?) as Jessica.
The principal vampire had been drowned, so you couldn't dig her up and put a stake through her heart, even if you knew what was going on. She just came up out of the lake when she pleased. And when you realized how much trouble you were in and tried to run for it, you realized everyone around you had already been bitten.

And it would take a lot of willpower to run away from Gretchen Corbett, or her big sister.

Have to google that too.

Where is that two-foot-high cross now, I wonder.

But I'm sure this will do the trick:

No doubt, Jer, crossed Lambsfoots best option.

I don't know what slagging is but I'm hoping it means beaten nigh unto death.

Sounds good Vince. After listening to your and David's expertise on the subject you better fix the drinks...


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Beautiful shot of your AC, Dwight! No flowers around here yet

Now you're talkin' , Dave! Let me know how your wife likes her new mill so I know if I should go ahead with my plans to get Jen one.

If I got her new furniture, I wouldn't be able to afford her mill!

Or our sacrifices, like letting her have 98% of the bed space.


That right there is a stunner...



Thank you my friend.
That Stan Shaw Lambsfoot of yours makes me all....

A Lambsfoot pic from the archive, to keep things lambsfooty

Neat photo, Kevin, what are those heavy duty nippers(?) used for?

Thanks Vince, yes I love all three of my Guardians knives, but I think I like the ‘19 the best. Just don’t tell the others! My Horn 2017 is the safe queen, so I can use the Ebony ‘18 and Ironwood ‘19 guilt free.





Thank you kindly, my friends.



Cheers mate, very kind of you to say so.

Yeah, I’ve been assured by friends whose taste in film I respect, that Watchmen is a creditable adaptation. After seeing From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen though, I refuse to watch any more film versions of Alan Moore’s comics. V for Vendetta was one of my most loved books as a teenager, so I don’t want to sully my memories of it either, with someone else’s reimagining of it. I don’t know if we have any H.P. Lovecraft fans here, but I expect we’ll see a film adaptation sooner or later of Moore’s recently completed take on the Cthulhu Mythos: Providence.

Cheers Dwight, you too my friend. Wow that must have been an amazing experience to have at such a formative time in your life. Fascinating.



Thanks Jeff. Very much so. I’m glad you enjoyed the photos, and thanks for your perceptive comment. Yes, I always enjoy the symbolism of a winding path in photos too. I like the effect a sequence of ‘path, road and track’ pics can have as you scroll up through them on the forum.

You reminded me of the destination listed on the front of Ken Kesey’s Magic Bus too: ‘FURTHER’!

No new tea and Ralf pictures my friend? I look forward to seeing them!



Thanks Preston, yes all those places are within about a 6 mile/10 km radius of where I live.

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The moss and Tree Fern pics from a few pages back were taken about where the ‘e’ is in Sherbrooke. The pics of the Lyrebirds in the Forest Arboretum, would be just under the icon in the top right corner of the last map.

After the East Gondwanan supercontinent separated into the landmasses which now comprise India, Australia/New Zealand, Antarctica and Madagascar, for a long time there was a landbridge which connected this part of Australia via Tasmania to Antarctica. Those Antarctic Tree Ferns are a very old species, dating back to the Jurassic and Cretaceous eras. In theory you could have walked from my place, down to Antarctica and then up to Patagonia. There are 60 million year old Australian Eucalypt fossils in Patagonia, which have since become extinct.

I’m not sure if you follow the Adventures of Pearl thread Preston (I’m overdue for a visit there myself), but there’s a series of posts there about this part of the world, you might be interested in, starting here.




Thanks for this, Jack. As we’ve discussed before, I think, The Great Sheffield Flood was the impetus for some cutlers and working cutlers to migrate to Australia and probably America too.

John Grayson’s works on the Malin Bridge on the Loxley River were destroyed in the flood and he subsequently set up shop in Melbourne:

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A hairdressers salon and ‘Yoga Space’ now occupy this spot on Brunswick Street, north of the Melbourne CBD.

I think the point has been made before in this thread, that these cutlers and the working cutlers who had migrated to America in the 1830s and ‘40s, and worked for the Northfield and Waterville Cutlery companies evidently did not bring the Lambsfoot pattern with them, so presumably it was developed after that time.



Makes the blood boil. I suppose it’s no coincidence that the events of the so called ‘Sheffield Outrages’ occurred soon after this.



The Master. Great stuff Vince.

Thank you Chin, for spending the time to 'show and tell' me about where you live. Great to have such diverse terrain so close. I know little about that part of the world, but will some research, thank you for the link...will look into the Adventures of Pearl.

 

[pjsjr]

Jack what an exquisite looking knife. I'd happily sell one of my more important internal organs to possess that .



LOL Rachel! Baileys isn't something I can drink that much of. In quantity it tends to curdle in the stomach and cause all manner of mischief .
U.S bartenders sound far more generous than UK bartenders. They also sound a bit more professional; unlike the twenty-somethings we have here who pay more attention to their facebook updates than they do to their drinking customers
And I still don't know what causes that blue patina on my knives, but it seems to disappear whenever I wipe the blade down with a spot of oil



Go on John, that's just begging to see some action!



Ahhh so not so much getting ready for summer as more battening down the hatches
Good luck! Hope your dogs see some exercise soon



I'm about to step out the door to go to the (according to some ) near tropical climes of North Yorkshire for a few days. It's my rosewood lambsfoot that will be going with me as those whip-cracking Tikes usually find me some chores to do whilst I'm there

I expect this thread will of reached at least 950 pages by the time I get back...
Hope everyone has a great weekend.

You, also, have a great weekend David. Springtime here does get violent. The plains and mountains have differing land masses and effect the weather patterns. We pay more on homeowners insurance and have higher deductibles because of the high frequency of hail, lightening and flood.

LOL! My younger brother was such a wimp, we couldn't even watch Dr Who, or a load of other 1960's children's TV programmes! He's been like that all his life



A locally made product



Having been through 2 world wars, and years of rationing, my maternal grandparents were inveterate hoarders - of everything, and had a large cupboard packed with cakes, chocolate, candy of all kinds - even cooking chocolate! It mainly stayed in the cupboard though



Both funny films Jer! Great pic!

Sorry guys, the OED defines it as "an insulting and critical attack". It was both "brutal" and "sustained"! I was sure to let him know that he is now known, throughout the world, as the Butter-fingered Oaf!



Outstanding photo Dwight



Good for you Vince I had a few beers, and watched The Big Lebowski



Thanks Mark, yes that Sambar will be many decades old The blade is just entrancing Mark, I've been so busy the past few days, I haven't had a chance to get any outdoor pics, but here's an indoor one of one of the others. I think these are the only Damascus Lambsfoot blades ever produced

I think we'll be seeing some great pics in a week or two













Thanks a lot guys I've been up a few hours, but haven't had a chance to check in until now, smashing pics



Fantastic Vince Has the etch on your blade been Flitzed away, or is it just hiding in the light?



LOL! Thanks Kevin, great pic

I was wondering when we would get a photo of the open blade...looks fantastic!

I'd certainly agree with your friends Chin, The Black Freighter storyline was omitted, but can be watched separately, and there is a slight simplification of the 'major event', but I think it was well-filmed, respectful of the book, and very enjoyable to watch. Just the opening credits are a treat I'm far more critical of V for Vendetta, but it has its moments

Yes indeed, my friend, the Dale Dyke Reservoir is directly above the Loxley Valley, which runs on to the (then) small hamlet of Malin Bridge. Everything along the rivers Loxley and Don (into which the Loxley feeds) was devastated. Thanks for the great pic

From the point of view of historical research, the flood is a useful marker in a number of respects, and the cynical compensation claims of the masters making for interesting and informative reading. Interestingly, the most militant union, the Saw-Grinders, had their historic base in Loxley, and the hills around the valley



Cheers mate Hope you'll be crossing again before too long



LOL! Thanks David

Yes, you'll not get so much as a free cup of tea mate! Have a great time, and I hope you don't get worked too hard my friend

When we get to 1000 pages I'll do a few giveaways

Morning Guardians (it's taken me over an hour to get to this point! ), hope everyone has a good Friday Stepping out with Lucy again

Boys and their toys...the difference in men and boys is the cost of their toys...as the saying goes. Have a good day Jack, thanks for all your hard and effort on out behalf. Lucy is getting out a lot lately, she's a good companion!
ETA, Lambsfoot content...

 

[Prester John]

I've never seen it Dave! I was too young when it came out (and they were picketing cinemas here), and it's just not the sort of thing I'd watch today

I saw it once. At the theatre when it came out or not too long thereafter, I believe. I was pretty young. Wished I hadn't seen it. Won't see it again. You ain't missing nothing, Jack!

 

[Prester John]

Thanks Dave, I do think they are a truly special run Hope everyone loves them to bits

They are extraordinary. Can't wait to see them start showing up.

 

[black mamba]

Thanks, Jack, and as usual, a lovely lineup!

 

[Jack Black]

Jack sent me a box of this tea and I loved it I found it for sale on the South American River site and very reasonable. I love a cup of hot tea with cream and honey but sorry Jack I also make southern boy iced tea NO SUGAR I just like the flavor of tea.

Good stuff Randy, I've actually stopped taking sugar (since Xmas) I sometimes treat myself to a smidgen of agave nectar

The picture of the S Shaw lambfoot, particularly the overall shape brought back memories.

The first Lambfoot knife I remember belonged to my maternal grandfather it was the best part of 6" long The blade at least 5.5" and exactly that long tapered blade shape the handle with swayed back. Apart from that it was entirely different having a crude black handle an enormous shackle and a hoof-pick curved along the back. He and the knife are long gone, I wondered if it was a part of his kit as a corporal in the Scots Greys during the 1st War

The most common blades when I was growing up where cheap Sheffield spearpoints, or the double ended penknife. Working men and farmers had cheap plastic handled sheepfoot blades. Many farmers in the 70s owned the the ubiquitous British Army Clasp knife as the fid on back allowed them to tease open knots in rope, (rope was more common before everything came on shrink wrapped on pallets). The blade reasonably safe while working with livestock. Lambfoot blades were however common in all the joinery workshops I worked in as was anything in any shape by James Barber.

Your grandfather's knife sounds very interesting. It's very unusual to see a Lambsfoot in that configuration, but in 1907, the Army & Navy Stores sold this 'Emigrant's Knife' with something like a Lambsfoot.

James Barber made a decent knife. I thought I had a James Barber Lambsfoot, but can't seem to find a pic :rolleyes

So unrealistic, John. Superman can whup Batman with the smallest flick of his pinky.

 

[Jack Black]

They are extraordinary. Can't wait to see them start showing up.

Me too

Thanks, Jack, and as usual, a lovely lineup!

Thanks Jeff

 

[Prester John]

Shame-faced Vince! He kept saying he felt bad about it, but I just told him, "Not as bad as I bl@@dy feel mate!" He deserves to suffer a bit! [/QUOTE]
Indeed!

Thanks Vince Just too a couple of snaps while I was out touring Leeds with Lucy and Pearl

All I can say is "Wow!"

Lucy wasn't pleased about this Vampire Hunter's kit in the Royal Armouries museum!

Is there garlick there? Can't tell, but you need it!

I bought the first issue (first time I've been in a comic shop in 20-odd years), but forgot to get any of the others. I'll probably wait until it comes out as a collection, as I think the price of two pints for a comic is a bit dear

I loved it when they were 12 cents.

Poor Stumpy! I never enjoyed Superman as much as Spiderman, for example, he was just too POWERFUL Mind you, having said that, I did like Thor!

One can never be too powerful!

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[tmd_87]

I'm excited to try out that straight handled Lambsfoot!

Here's what's in my pocket on this fine Friday!

 

[dc50]

Thanks Dave, I do think they are a truly special run Hope everyone loves them to bits

I'm sure they will!

 

[dc50]

Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

 

[Jack Black]

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Just make sure that the square brackets, which contain the words '/QUOTE' are included before you add your comment after that Vince

I'm excited to try out that straight handled Lambsfoot!

Here's what's in my pickep on this fine Friday!
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It certainly makes the blade a lot more pinchable Looking good John

Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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Cool pic Dave

 

[dc50]

Cool pic Dave

Thank you, Jack.

 

[Prester John]

Just make sure that the square brackets, which contain the words '/QUOTE' are included before you add your comment after that Vince

Will do my best! I learn something new every day. Then again, I may be relearning things I forgot.

 

[pjsjr]

Edit: tried to do a multi-quote, but my responses look like they are parts of the quotes. Not sure how to fix that.

I've been experiencing troubles also, Vince. Thinking it was just me and my 'confuser'

 

[JohnDF]

I do think they are a truly special run Hope everyone loves them to bits

Must have been a "super secret" run. Can't wait to see them all.

Beautiful!

Lucy wasn't pleased about this Vampire Hunter's kit in the Royal Armouries museum!

Okay, that is just way too cool.

I bought the first issue (first time I've been in a comic shop in 20-odd years), but forgot to get any of the others. I'll probably wait until it comes out as a collection, as I think the price of two pints for a comic is a bit dear

I bought myself (and my boys) the first three releases, I need to catch up and get the other releases. My boys are really enjoying them, but I haven't started them yet.

I never enjoyed Superman as much as Spiderman, for example, he was just too POWERFUL Mind you, having said that, I did like Thor!

Spidey is my favorite too. I always loved his dry humor in the most stressful times.

Really?! The Judge Dredd/Batman encounter was good

Dang! Now I have to hunt that down...

Fantastic John

Thanks, Jack.

 

[Prester John]

Spidey is my favorite too. I always loved his dry humor in the most stressful times.

I will confess that my favourite when I was young was Spider-Man. I just like Superman better now. Better powers, better uniform, better name. But Stan Lee was a genius, and the '60s was a golden age for comics.

 

[cigarrodog]

Jack Black

Of course the knife is beautiful, but the Sambar is Ooh La La.