The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Sounds great, Jack!
Great pics this weekend from everyone!
Then I ride a trojan horse through a worm-hole in the backdoor!
Thanks Jack. The barlow! The barlow! The barlow! The barlow! ........... Sorry. Just got excited...........
Thank you so much, OG. Much appreciation. As Detectives, I would partner with you anytime.Way to go. You certainly deserve the prize
OG
As an aside, I had finished my "Google quest" and was going to write my entry when I saw that Harvey had already posted. Since I was so impressed by his research, I decided not to post which was just as well as I was going to take a stab in the dark and guess 1930, anyway.
I couldn't make out the letter following "W." and since I am a neophyte in the Lambsfoot world, it didn't dawn on me to Google Saynor-so I put letters in front of "aynor" starting with E followed by Lambsfoot. When I got to S, and put in "saynor lambsfoot" I thought I might have struck paydirt. So I clicked Images and the contest photo was the first in line! So I came back here and was starting to write my entry when a I go an alert that a new post had been made and when I clicked on it, it was Harvey's entry. GRATS my friend
Great info, Jack. Thanks
That's certainly is a grand old gal
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OG
Man, that looks good...All of it. Even took the Ironwood out of storage.
Jack, the burger was gooooood! Blue cheese, bacon, grilled onions and mushrooms!Your pic put a big involuntary smile on my face Taylor!
It was tasty. Glad I decided to throw the Ironwood in the pocket.
Sounds good! Thanks Jack.Gorgeous
I'll send out an email in a couple of weeks Taylor, there's a lot going into this one, so I want to make sure everything is just as it should be before I send out any info
Looks good. Hope that's real beef and not tofu or some other substitute!
Hey! It's really real beefLooks good. Hope that's real beef and not tofu or some other substitute!
Hey! It's really real beef
I know you all enjoy trees. Here is another picture of my grand old Oak tree in my backyard. As you can see, I finally got around to chopping down all the weeds that were waist-high. I really love this old tree, it's probably my favorite feature of my entire property.
Right, add a transponder chip and it's a worry free knife.
Scramble those in with a few eggs and it could be.Good morning, Guardians!
No, that's not my breakfast!
Nice flies, Barry. I have a fish story...years ago Hank Roberts, living in Boulder, CO tied flies. His reputation grew and he developed a strong business selling his flies and tackle. As a youngster I would go into the sporting goods store and stare longingly at his display, knowing if I could just afford to use his flies I could catch a lunker. As the years past, I was able to afford to fish his flies and as luck would have it I hooked a tremendously large Rainbow. I played that fish as best I could but the closer it got to shore the stronger it fought. About ten yards from the landing net it broke free, I was devastated! I thought that I had tied the fly on wrong and it came loose at the eye. Upon examining it, the hook had broke at the bend. Now I was devastated and furious. I wrote to Mr. Roberts, sent him the fly, stating how disappointed I was with his fly. He wrote back, saying how sorry he was that I had lost the fish, but, that this fly was not of his manufacture, he only Eagle Claw hooks and this was not one. He went on to tell me that merchants would purchase his displays and when the Hank Roberts flies were sold replace them with cheaply made ones and sell those instead of his. From that point on I have been very careful what and where I buy my flies.
A small consolation, Dave, but maybenastier weather will cause them to pay a heavy pe
As usual great information, with pictures, Jack, especially about the stag to be use on the Lambsfoot BarlowsFor at least a couple of decades now, the Indian government has had an export ban in place on Sambar stag. This hit the Sheffield cutlers particularly hard, since it was unexpected, and the small remaining firms didn't keep stocks, as firms like Joseph Rodgers did in the past.
Also, British stag is much less dense than Sambar stag with less character.
They were forced to use very poor stag, seek alternatives, such as camel-bone, or abandon using stag altogether. Wright's stag was generally quite characterless, but they then managed to source some Pere David stag, which was a good deal better, and get it in decent quantities.
They also managed to secure a smaller quantity of vintage Sambar, which had been cut for steak knife handles, which I used for the Ashley's Choice knives, and for some of the recent Damascus ones. It will also be used on the forthcoming Lambsfoot Barlows
Manna from heavenOh look I just found a partial bag of licorice in my miscellaneous knife drawer that I was about to pack.
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Went to the swap meet with my son. No knives. But my son bought an older Cannon camera that takes film. He asked me how to plug it into the computer to get the pictures....I had to explain the film to him and how it works. We ordered some film on that big site that starts with an A. He is excited!
I might try that. I almost always put Tabasco sauce on my eggs.Scramble those in with a few eggs and it could be.
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Went to the swap meet with my son. No knives. But my son bought an older Cannon camera that takes film. He asked me how to plug it into the computer to get the pictures
That's a gorgeous bamboo rod... oh ya, and Lambsfoot
Preston, fly fishing must be a much more satisfying catch, than sitting in a boat, putting back a six-pack kind of fishing.
So cool!Some of us old guys still use sheets of film—and carry a Lambsfoot.
