The Silence of The Lambsfoot

[Jack Black]

Sheepfoot, or lambfoot are my favorite blade type, both knives looks great the A. Wright Lambsfoot scales looks especially nice and also your new one.
Here is Wade and Butcher of Sheffield

Mike

I didn't know that Mike, I thought you were a Hawkbill man. Thanks for your kind comments, but these knives are absolutely nothing compared to the old ones IMO, that's a lovely Wade & Butcher :thumbup:

Thanks for the trip to Malton, Jack!
You always bring us right into the picture with your great descriptions of your adventures!!
Allow me to add my lonesome Lambfoot to your great thread;

Not that old but nicely made, I think.

Thanks Charlie, I meant to just post about the knife, but sort of got carried away! That's a very nice Rodgers :thumbup:

The lambsfoot is such a classic English pattern. Here is a custom that was commissioned by one of our fellow forumites, inspired by George Mallory's knife.

- Christian

I agree 100% Christian, and one that we rarely see elsewhere. Thanks for the link :thumbup: Now, why did I not know that Mallory's knife was a Lambsfoot?

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Thanks Jack, I do like your knives, here's Lookwood Brothers lambfoot (No Kick)

and French knife, Le-Sabot (also No Kick)

NYKC

Mike

 

[Jack Black]

Very interesting knives Mike, thanks for posting the pics. I like the look of the Le Sabot knife, and the older knives are beauties too

Jack

 

[jon_slider]

Boker 494, (plastic handle, stainless blades) not even in the league with most of the carbon bladed, wood and stag beauties in this thread, but, its a sheepie. Im betting the Sheepsfoot Charlows will sell out before they get printed.

 

[Jack Black]

A nice-looking knife Jon and a good composition :thumbup: The Sheepsfoot seems to be more international than the Lambsfoot.

 

[jon_slider]

A nice-looking knife Jon and a good composition :thumbup: The Sheepsfoot seems to be more international than the Lambsfoot.

I always appreciate your kind words, and really appreciate your photos too. And thanks for making the distinction, that I failed to recognize at first, between

sheep

and lonesome lamb

what amazing old knives!

 

[Jack Black]

I always appreciate your kind words, and really appreciate your photos too.

Thank you Jon, great to see so many ovine knives, in this thread and others recently

 

[T. Erdelyi]

On one of my last trips to the UK, (about 15 years ago) I had stopped in a shop in London and found a single blade Jack with some kinda jigged black bone scales and a lambs foot blade I packed it into my checked baggage and when I got back stateside and unpacked my bags I noticed the knife was n missing, I hadn't thought about that knife or lambs foot blade in 15 years, thanks for the memory Jack, it was a great trip otherwise, I was working at the Newport Wafer Fab in Wales.

Used to go for two weeks at a time every couple of months to do class on setting up and repairing our wet benches for their production fab, I gotta see if I can dig up some pics, spent a lot of time visiting castles and pubs

 

[Jack Black]

On one of my last trips to the UK, (about 15 years ago) I had stopped in a shop in London and found a single blade Jack with some kinda jigged black bone scales and a lambs foot blade I packed it into my checked baggage and when I got back stateside and unpacked my bags I noticed the knife was n missing, I hadn't thought about that knife or lambs foot blade in 15 years, thanks for the memory Jack, it was a great trip otherwise, I was working at the Newport Wafer Fab in Wales.

Used to go for two weeks at a time every couple of months to do class on setting up and repairing our wet benches for their production fab, I gotta see if I can dig up some pics, spent a lot of time visiting castles and pubs

That's a shame Ted, sounds like a nice knife to lose.

I know it's small consolation, but...




Jack

 

[Jack Black]

I’ve done various image searches on the knife, but can find out almost nothing about it...I’d be interested to hear from anyone whose seen anything similar to this, perhaps knives of a different pattern, but sharing cosmetic similarities. The shop I bought it from had a Hawkbill in the same range. I’ll let you know what I find out myself.

I managed to find this, which bears the name of a gardening supply company. Unfortunately the tang is only stamped 'Stainless Steel', and I imagine that Darlac have these knives made for them, so I'm not really any closer to finding out where my Silent Lambsfoot was made.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

That's a shame Ted, sounds like a nice knife to lose.

I know it's small consolation, but...




Jack

Used to eat bangers and beans for breakfast every morning with fried eggs, Used to love afternoon tea.

First time I ever saw frozen fog was in February closed Heathrow for 2 days, darn placed looked like a dead concert was held there in two days they nearly drank the place dry and smoked every cigar in the airport.

 

[Jack Black]

I remember you telling me about the bangers Ted

Well, I've not managed to track down the exact knife I bought, probably because it was commissioned by the UK knife wholesaler I mentioned. I found a site with a range of gardening knives, including the Dalrac knife above, which you can have made up with your company logo or whatever. I'm sure they'll make you anything you want if the order is large enough (and it probably doesn't have to be all that large). The knives are made a little further afield than I'd imagined - in China - so it seems that the Lambsfoot has gone international, in a manner of speaking, afterall.

 

[leifjl]

I'd never heard of a lambsfoot before this. So if I'm wrong let me know, but it seems the difference between lambsfoot and sheepsfoot is that a lambsfoot has a slight taper, when viewed from profile, from ricasso to tip and that the tip comes to more of point. Is this correct or is there some other subtleties I'm missing?
Leif

 

[waynorth]

You pretty much have it, Leif.
On a folding knife, the usual term is tang, not ricasso. So, a taper from tang to tip.

 

[zippofan]

After succumbing to the look, then the utility of the Wharncliffe, I could see I would easily to the same with the Real Lamb Foot. Great thread as always Jack, though you had me at Tadcaster...oatmeal stout! Other than Samuel Smiths, I've had only one other, at a little brew pub in Rochester, New York, which I thought was fitting.

 

[kimsalls]

I made a three month trip to Europe in my Twenties. The only thing on my itenerary was to go to the Samuel Smith brewery. I showed up in York a few days before Easter and the brewery was closed. Thanks for the pictures of Tadcaster and the knives. Please drink a Samuel Smith Porter for me.

 

[jon_slider]

a Flock of Chinese Ovines looking for a Mob of Bangers and Mash

They look a lot more like sheep than lamb to me. No taper to the blade profile, and a very blunt sheep like end curve..

I kind of like the parallel lines of the spine and blade on the sheepsfoot, but the longer curve of the blade tip of the lambsfoot.. I suppose that might have been mister Wharnies disposition..

and the requisite redundantly irreverent representation in every post

and, when the tang taper is narrower than the tip, is it still a sheepsfoot? I find this blade profile very appealing.

 

[Jack Black]

After succumbing to the look, then the utility of the Wharncliffe, I could see I would easily to the same with the Real Lamb Foot. Great thread as always Jack, though you had me at Tadcaster...oatmeal stout! Other than Samuel Smiths, I've had only one other, at a little brew pub in Rochester, New York, which I thought was fitting.

Thanks Griff I mentioned the brewery as I know Samuel Smiths have a few fans here.

I made a three month trip to Europe in my Twenties. The only thing on my itenerary was to go to the Samuel Smith brewery. I showed up in York a few days before Easter and the brewery was closed.

Sorry to hear that. It's a very eccentric company, they own all their own pubs (including one close to Trafalgar Square), and everything they sell, right down to the peanuts, but I'm told the owner has his wife taking in ironing! The pubs, as well as the brewery, have their own idiosincratic opening times. The draught beer is very inexpensive, but because of that their pubs are always full of drunks, and they have some phenomenally lousy pubs. One of their pubs in Leeds city centre is so run-down that for many years I thought it was derelict, until a ban on smoking in pubs, forced the alcoholic clientele out onto the pavement outside to have a cig!

a Flock of Chinese Ovines looking for a Mob of Bangers and Mash

They look a lot more like sheep than lamb to me. No taper to the blade profile, and a very blunt sheep like end curve..

I kind of like the parallel lines of the spine and blade on the sheepsfoot, but the longer curve of the blade tip of the lambsfoot.. I suppose that might have been mister Wharnies disposition..

That might be down to the shortcomings of my photography Jon, there is a taper, but it isn't great. I guess when things are copied to order, and cheaply, it's the subtleties of design that are often lost.

 

[Robert.B]

Lambsfoot is easily my fav pattern of the single bladers!!! I picked this one up at a gun show for a few dollars, he was kinda glad to be rid of it lol Made by Richard Groves & Sons Ltd. of Sheffield England.

Great thread and thanks for sharing the pics!

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Lambsfoot is easily my fav pattern of the single bladers!!! I picked this one up at a gun show for a few dollars, he was kinda glad to be rid of it lol Made by Richard Groves & Sons Ltd. of Sheffield England.

Great thread and thanks for sharing the pics!

Great looking knife Robert, the bone is fantastic.
Mike