Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

The weekend being here, it's time to get down to serious business.

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Cambertree said:
Dylan, I see now in your pic of your Lambsfoot trio, what you're saying about how proud the brass scales are. Given the inner scales and covers are ground flush, in the same finishing operations, it must have taken a long time for the covers to dry out that much. Possibly they were near a heating source, as well.

I'd probably try to get a bit of moisture in it first, to let it stabilise to the new environment, and also to fractionally tighten it up around the pins, before blending. Otherwise you may risk sanding everything flush, and having the covers potentially expand a little, again.

If you tape some fine sandpaper to a hard surface you'll find you can probably sand back the brass scales initially, without really touching the covers much.

A softer substrate like leather or a mousepad works great for finish blending.

Watch those peened pinheads too, it doesn't take much to loosen the mushroomed head a little bit. If they're way proud, maybe doming them lightly, might be preferable to sanding/stropping them flush.

And as long as you have a strop, or a bit of leather, and some compounds, and microcloth, you can't really go wrong. As Will said, you can bring it back to a high polish pretty quickly.:thumbsup:

I'm sure you'll have fun with it, and develop your own preferred techniques as well. I find doing a bit of refinishing, sharpening and edge thinning, and polishing on my new working knives to be quite an enjoyable process, myself...
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I forgot to thank you for the tips and info, Chin, this is immeasurably helpful. Thank you so much.

I am going to start by getting the horn moisturized, as you suggested. Give it some time and then perhaps tackle it in the next week or two. Going to take a couple more closeup pics of the liners, I'm thinking I'm going to have to work on some blending, as the back spring sits just as proud as the liners...
 
AShearer said:
Okay. I guessed wrong. So, tell us what you did!:):rolleyes:
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My old, and huge, printer/scanner/fax is located on a shelf under my PC. I was trying to hastily scan a document, but the machine wouldn't switch on. I checked the plug sockets, seemed to be OK. Had to pull out the printer to check the connections at that side, which is very awkward because of the height, the weight of the printer, and the relatively cramped space. Unfortunately, the wires for my speakers had become tangled round the printer cables, and as I struggled to pull the printer out, the speakers were dragged from their respective positions, on my window-sill and atop my computer tower. The former dragged a load of ornaments with it, which ended up on the floor, and these included a handmade pot full of old coins, which smashed and sent the coins rolling all over the place. The other speaker also fell off, taking a pile of CDs and CD cases with it, some of which also broke. I lost my hold on the printer, and that fell off its shelf, damaging some important documents I'd left on top of it, and breaking the front. The printer went in the bin, I'm going cordless! :rolleyes:

WhittlinAway said:
The weekend being here, it's time to get down to serious business.

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Cool pic my friend, looks like the start of a great weekend :) :thumbsup:

Pàdruig said:
I forgot to thank you for the tips and info, Chin, this is immeasurably helpful. Thank you so much.

I am going to start by getting the horn moisturized, as you suggested. Give it some time and then perhaps tackle it in the next week or two. Going to take a couple more closeup pics of the liners, I'm thinking I'm going to have to work on some blending, as the back spring sits just as proud as the liners...
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I hope that you can rejuvenate the horn Dylan, and that that's all it takes :thumbsup:

Going straight again today! :eek: ;)

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Jack Black said:
The printer went in the bin, I'm going cordless!
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Microwaves might kill us, but it might be worth it to get rid of the wires, of which I still have a few. I have about three kinds of wires in my tv/vcr/cd complex, which I tippy-toe around to avoid disarranging.
 
Pàdruig said:
I forgot to thank you for the tips and info, Chin, this is immeasurably helpful. Thank you so much.

I am going to start by getting the horn moisturized, as you suggested. Give it some time and then perhaps tackle it in the next week or two. Going to take a couple more closeup pics of the liners, I'm thinking I'm going to have to work on some blending, as the back spring sits just as proud as the liners...
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No worries Dylan. Unfortunately, removing too much material from the backspring can affect the spring tension, so hopefully, you'll get some expansion from remoisturising the covers, over the next couple of weeks, that will minimise the sanding needed.

JB: Arrgh!:eek: What a week you've had my friend! Here's hoping the weekend treats you better.:):thumbsup:

That stag swayback AW&S looks especially nice.:thumbsup:

Here's my (Red) stag Wright, helping me with dinner at a pub out in the bush.;)

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And looking out over a forest edged field, at dusk...

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Jack Black said:
Fantastic Shawn :thumbsup:

I've had this one with me today :) Had a great day at Harewood Steam Fair out in the West Yorkshire countryside near where I live. Everything from every kind of vintage vehicle, to flying eagles, to fish and chips :) Great day :thumbsup:

http://harewood.org/whats-on/event/the-steam-fair-at-harewood/

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Jack. Would you translate this paragraph from the Steam Fair link for my edification :D

Also included will be trade stands, auto-jumble, a craft and fine food marquee, both old time and modern funfairs and arena entertainment including Bird of Prey Displays with free-flying magnificent eagles and vultures.

Sounds like fun ,but?
 
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Jack. Would you translate this paragraph from the Steam Fair link for my edification :D

Also included will be trade stands, auto-jumble, a craft and fine food marquee, both old time and modern funfairs and arena entertainment including Bird of Prey Displays with free-flying magnificent eagles and vultures.

Sounds like fun ,but?
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Happy to have a try Alan :) Some of the language is a bit new to me too! :D Trade stands, well that's folks selling stuff, from what I saw, everything from country clothing to lactose free yoghurt for dogs! I guess 'auto-jumble' comes from the 'jumble sales' which were once popular here - rummage sales - but in this case selling second-hand parts for classic cars, and other vehicles. Most of the stalls straddle both descriptions, like my mate's here, he specialises in old British and American tools. Here's his Austin K9 next to the stall :thumbsup:

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'Craft and fine food marquee', that was a big tent with people selling handmade wood and leather goods, cakes, pork pies, Cornish pasties, etc :) There were lots of steam-driven vintage fairground organs, a lovely old carousel, and a few newer rides for the kids. The arena was a large fenced off area, where they had displays of traction engines, vintage cars (couple of nice Packards there), heavy vehicles, motorcycles, and a couple of flying displays by vultures and eagles, which for some reason have had to be rescued at some point in their lives. They included an American Bald Eagle and a Stellar's Sea Eagle. Boy, are they big birds close-up! :eek: I'll try and post some pics in the Lounge later :thumbsup:

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AShearer said:
I want one! Will be ordering from Sheffield and takes my chances.
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They don't normally have Sambar stag available Alan, drop me a PM :thumbsup:

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Jack Black said:
Happy to have a try Alan :) Some of the language is a bit new to me too! :D Trade stands, well that's folks selling stuff, from what I saw, everything from country clothing to lactose free yoghurt for dogs! I guess 'auto-jumble' comes from the 'jumble sales' which were once popular here - rummage sales - but in this case selling second-hand parts for classic cars, and other vehicles. Most of the stalls straddle both descriptions, like my mate's here, he specialises in old British and American tools. Here's his Austin K9 next to the stall :thumbsup:

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'Craft and fine food marquee', that was a big tent with people selling handmade wood and leather goods, cakes, pork pies, Cornish pasties, etc :) There were lots of steam-driven vintage fairground organs, a lovely old carousel, and a few newer rides for the kids. The arena was a large fenced off area, where they had displays of traction engines, vintage cars (couple of nice Packards there), heavy vehicles, motorcycles, and a couple of flying displays by vultures and eagles, which for some reason have had to be rescued at some point in their lives. They included an American Bald Eagle and a Stellar's Sea Eagle. Boy, are they big birds close-up! :eek: I'll try and post some pics in the Lounge later :thumbsup:

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They don't normally have Sambar stag available Alan, drop me a PM :thumbsup:

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Well thank you Jack! I thought a craft and fine food marquee might be a big space selling those things, but did not get the connection to marquee? The one that really threw me was the auto-jumble. That could have been literally anything. Rummage sale makes sense to me.

I'll bet the raptor demonstration was very interesting. We have a number of Osprey around our home. They are amazing fishers but, they do scare the eagles away believe it or not.

Looks like a fun affair similar to what we used to call Farm City Days in small towns around where I grew up. Now "farmer's markets" have become fairly widespread and sophisticated, roving businesses.

Thanks for the tip on the stag lambs foot. I see a couple listed on an A Wright site, but I don't think they are specified as Sambar, just stag.
 
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Well thank you Jack! I thought a craft and fine food marquee might be a big space selling those things, but did not get the connection to marquee? The one that really threw me was the auto-jumble. That could have been literally anything. Rummage sale makes sense to me.

I'll bet the raptor demonstration was very interesting. We have a number of Osprey around our home. They are amazing fishers but, they do scare the eagles away believe it or not.

Looks like a fun affair similar to what we used to call Farm City Days in small towns around where I grew up. Now "farmer's markets" have become fairly widespread and sophisticated, roving businesses.

Thanks for the tip on the stag lambs foot. I see a couple listed on an A Wright site, but I don't think they are specified as Sambar, just stag.
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Marquee's just a fancy word for a big tent Alan, I'll be buying my shirts like that if I keep eating blackberry crumble! :D I'd never heard 'auto-jumble' until very recently, and it seems to be very loosely applied! :rolleyes: Wow, I've never seen an Osprey in the wild, amazing birds :) Yeah, 'farmer's markets' are pretty widespread here too, not too many farmers among the organic chutney and artisan bread stalls from what I've seen! ;) :D :thumbsup: They won't be Sambar Alan, too hard to get hold of here :thumbsup:

WhittlinAway said:
Jack Black Jack Black sounds like a fun event. Thanks for sharing the details.
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Thanks my friend, I'll try and post some more pics in the Lounge later :thumbsup:
 
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