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I ran out of half-and-half. Extra heavy stirring duty for old Toffee-wings.
Guardians of The Lambsfoot!
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I ran out of half-and-half. Extra heavy stirring duty for old Toffee-wings.
I had breakfast out this morning
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The Lambsfoot fits right in, Jack. I have fond memories of English breakfasts. Looks good!
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My Guardians Lambsfoot on Leeds Bridge this morning
It was on this bridge, in 1888, that Louis Le Price shot what was long thought to be the world's very first motion film (a slightly earlier film Le Prince also shot in Leeds has since been discovered).
It was on this bridge, in 1888, that Louis Le Price shot what was long thought to be the world's very first motion film (a slightly earlier film Le Prince also shot in Leeds has since been discovered).
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I’m giving this A. Wright Sambar some pocket time today.
Very nice Ron
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Sorry Ed, nice-looking Ankermesser, but this is the Lambsfoot thread
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. Knife is stunning as always jack. Also that's really cool history of the bridge near you. One of my favorite things to read about and study is history so many long forgotten skills and ways of living.My Guardians Lambsfoot on Leeds Bridge this morning
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It was on this bridge, in 1888, that Louis Le Price shot what was long thought to be the world's very first motion film (a slightly earlier film Le Prince also shot in Leeds has since been discovered).
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Thanks for the kind words on my post on antler compared to horn, my friends.
Sorry to hear your back's been troubling you again, my friend. I hope you're feeling a bit better, and I'm glad my wee gifts brought a smile.
Cheers GT: Jack somehow forgot to mention that I've been the recipient of his exceedingly generous nature on more than one occasion!
I've really been enjoying seeing all the Guardians Lambsfoot knives popping up that have been gifted by the two Jacks. I always like reading your inimitable posts and observations in the EDC thread and other threads you frequent, so it's been a real treat to be able to look forward to your posts here as well, my friend. Your 'Eye of the Tiger' Lambsfoot is looking great, and I hadn't forgotten about your pledge to reveal your nom de Lambsfoots, after keeping us in suspense for a suitable amount of time! It's true that if any knives are deserving of a name, it's these beauties. Personally, I've been toying with a name inspired by Jer's (
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) musings on a good, classic Norse name, for the blade now seemingly known as 'Toffee wings'! Not Brain Biter, or Fótbítr (Leg-biter), Sköfnung, Graysteel, Warflame, Quern-biter, Adder, Dragvandil, Skyrmir or other famous names of blades in the Norse Sagas, though!
Great to see you here, my friend, and I'm glad to see Jack gifted you such a beauty. I enjoyed reading your reflections on these evocative cover scales too.
Good tip Keith, I'll definitely try that, when I receive Dylan's Guardians slip. I'm very much looking forward to it. Your Lambsfoot's looking great with that patina starting on it, too.
Beautiful quartet, Harry, every one a stunner! That large TEW was a real score, with a wonderfully full blade. You know I always enjoy seeing your blond TEW, but I must say, that Midnight Special is very compelling in it's understated elegance, as well.
Here's a straight handled, medium sized stag Lambsfoot, a kind gift from Charlie.
Excellent, I'm looking forward to it, brother! Mackay and Northern Queensland along the Barrier Reef is a beautiful stretch of coastline. I'd love to visit Taiwan, some day. Here's a couple of pics of the countryside near me, I took yesterday.
I've spent many happy hours hunting rabbits for the pot, and foxes for the farmer, in this valley over the years.
I'm afraid I've had an absolutely rotten day today, just about everything that could go wrong did, and I was up to my neck in work, and nearly on my knees with a sciatica flare-up
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Sorry to hear your back's been troubling you again, my friend. I hope you're feeling a bit better, and I'm glad my wee gifts brought a smile.
Thanks for sharing the story about the generous gifts from Chin!
Cheers GT: Jack somehow forgot to mention that I've been the recipient of his exceedingly generous nature on more than one occasion!
I've really been enjoying seeing all the Guardians Lambsfoot knives popping up that have been gifted by the two Jacks. I always like reading your inimitable posts and observations in the EDC thread and other threads you frequent, so it's been a real treat to be able to look forward to your posts here as well, my friend. Your 'Eye of the Tiger' Lambsfoot is looking great, and I hadn't forgotten about your pledge to reveal your nom de Lambsfoots, after keeping us in suspense for a suitable amount of time! It's true that if any knives are deserving of a name, it's these beauties. Personally, I've been toying with a name inspired by Jer's (
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) musings on a good, classic Norse name, for the blade now seemingly known as 'Toffee wings'! Not Brain Biter, or Fótbítr (Leg-biter), Sköfnung, Graysteel, Warflame, Quern-biter, Adder, Dragvandil, Skyrmir or other famous names of blades in the Norse Sagas, though!Great to see you here, my friend, and I'm glad to see Jack gifted you such a beauty. I enjoyed reading your reflections on these evocative cover scales too.
Good tip Keith, I'll definitely try that, when I receive Dylan's Guardians slip. I'm very much looking forward to it. Your Lambsfoot's looking great with that patina starting on it, too.
All of my Lambfoots
Top 2 are A. Wrights /// Bottom 2 are Taylors Eye Witness
Harry
Beautiful quartet, Harry, every one a stunner! That large TEW was a real score, with a wonderfully full blade. You know I always enjoy seeing your blond TEW, but I must say, that Midnight Special is very compelling in it's understated elegance, as well.
Here's a straight handled, medium sized stag Lambsfoot, a kind gift from Charlie.
Excellent, I'm looking forward to it, brother! Mackay and Northern Queensland along the Barrier Reef is a beautiful stretch of coastline. I'd love to visit Taiwan, some day. Here's a couple of pics of the countryside near me, I took yesterday.
I've spent many happy hours hunting rabbits for the pot, and foxes for the farmer, in this valley over the years.
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Thanks for the very kind words concerning my Lambfoots Chin !!!! I absolutely agree with you about the Midnight Special . The covers on it are pretty deep and a little mysterious , but the Flashy Feathered one is just a little better made knife . I consider myself very lucky to have found the old TEW Lambfoot . I really like the length of it . I was going to order another new TEW Lambfoot with Amboyna covers until I found the old one .Thanks for the kind words on my post on antler compared to horn, my friends.
Sorry to hear your back's been troubling you again, my friend. I hope you're feeling a bit better, and I'm glad my wee gifts brought a smile.
Cheers GT: Jack somehow forgot to mention that I've been the recipient of his exceedingly generous nature on more than one occasion!
I've really been enjoying seeing all the Guardians Lambsfoot knives popping up that have been gifted by the two Jacks. I always like reading your inimitable posts and observations in the EDC thread and other threads you frequent, so it's been a real treat to be able to look forward to your posts here as well, my friend. Your 'Eye of the Tiger' Lambsfoot is looking great, and I hadn't forgotten about your pledge to reveal your nom de Lambsfoots, after keeping us in suspense for a suitable amount of time! It's true that if any knives are deserving of a name, it's these beauties. Personally, I've been toying with a name inspired by Jer's (
Great to see you here, my friend, and I'm glad to see Jack gifted you such a beauty. I enjoyed reading your reflections on these evocative cover scales too.
Good tip Keith, I'll definitely try that, when I receive Dylan's Guardians slip. I'm very much looking forward to it. Your Lambsfoot's looking great with that patina starting on it, too.
Beautiful quartet, Harry, every one a stunner! That large TEW was a real score, with a wonderfully full blade. You know I always enjoy seeing your blond TEW, but I must say, that Midnight Special is very compelling in it's understated elegance, as well.
Here's a straight handled, medium sized stag Lambsfoot, a kind gift from Charlie.
Excellent, I'm looking forward to it, brother! Mackay and Northern Queensland along the Barrier Reef is a beautiful stretch of coastline. I'd love to visit Taiwan, some day. Here's a couple of pics of the countryside near me, I took yesterday.
I've spent many happy hours hunting rabbits for the pot, and foxes for the farmer, in this valley over the years.
My wife and I toured Australia for a month in 2005 and we enjoyed it immensely so I really enjoy the pictures you post of the countryside .
Your Stag is really looking good !!!!!! Do you prefer the Straight or Curved handles of your various ones ????
Take care my friend !!!
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Thanks Harry.
Yes, I'm quite smitten by the depths, and changing qualities of those more subtle Midnight Specials.
When I first received my Guardians knife, I must admit I was secretly hoping for a flashy, spectacular 'Double A Side' example. I might have mentioned before, that being left handed, I like my knives with a pretty pile side, in addition to a decent mark side. At first, I thought the mark side of my knife had most of the character. Now, I like both sides very much, especially after reading GT's comparison of the pile side to alpha particle tracks through a cloud chamber. In fact, I think of my Guardians knife as a kind of Midnight Special on the pile side!
I'm curious what you think of the ergonomics of the larger Lambsfoot, considering the handle of the medium size swayback seems to rest perfectly within the palm of the hand.
I used the swell end, straight handled stag Lambsfoot for a few months while I'd misplaced my ebony swayback; and now I have my ebony Lambsfoot back again, I definitely prefer the swayback handle shape.
It's interesting that hand cutting tools actually predate homo sapiens, and as such, our eyes have very ingrained and definite concepts of what looks right and wrong in a knife. Symmetry and proportion, and surface finish are all intuitively assessed by the human eye, and even a millimetre more or less in different areas can make a knife look different, without knowing exactly why.
When I first came to traditional knives, and the Porch, there were many knife patterns that seemed strange, or ugly to me. The Lambsfoot was one of those knives.
That was primarily a visual judgment. Later, when I acquired examples of many of those 'ugly' knife patterns, I learned to trust the feedback of my hand more than my eye. I find the swayback handle, paired with the tapering width of the straight edged blade combine to make an extremely comfortable knife to deploy and use, especially in conjunction with an easily pinchable blade.
When I came to design my own fixed blade version of the Lambsfoot knife, I looked at my hand, and was reassured by the fact that both open and closed, it has no straight lines, only curves and tapers.
The best design features of this extremely comfortable, fixed blade utility knife are due to the astute observation and ergonomic sense of that working cutler long ago, whose name we may never know, who created the first Lambsfoot knife.
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Thanks Keith
The oldest house on my street was owned by Louis Le Prince, and while I have lived there, he never did, because of his mysterious disappearance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_PrinceThank you kind sir!
A pleasure Ron
Sorry to hear your back's been troubling you again, my friend. I hope you're feeling a bit better, and I'm glad my wee gifts brought a smile.
Cheers GT: Jack somehow forgot to mention that I've been the recipient of his exceedingly generous nature on more than one occasion!
I've really been enjoying seeing all the Guardians Lambsfoot knives popping up that have been gifted by the two Jacks. I always like reading your inimitable posts and observations in the EDC thread and other threads you frequent, so it's been a real treat to be able to look forward to your posts here as well, my friend. Your 'Eye of the Tiger' Lambsfoot is looking great, and I hadn't forgotten about your pledge to reveal your nom de Lambsfoots, after keeping us in suspense for a suitable amount of time! It's true that if any knives are deserving of a name, it's these beauties. Personally, I've been toying with a name inspired by Jer's (
Great to see you here, my friend, and I'm glad to see Jack gifted you such a beauty. I enjoyed reading your reflections on these evocative cover scales too.
Good tip Keith, I'll definitely try that, when I receive Dylan's Guardians slip. I'm very much looking forward to it. Your Lambsfoot's looking great with that patina starting on it, too.
Beautiful quartet, Harry, every one a stunner! That large TEW was a real score, with a wonderfully full blade. You know I always enjoy seeing your blond TEW, but I must say, that Midnight Special is very compelling in it's understated elegance, as well.
Here's a straight handled, medium sized stag Lambsfoot, a kind gift from Charlie.
Excellent, I'm looking forward to it, brother! Mackay and Northern Queensland along the Barrier Reef is a beautiful stretch of coastline. I'd love to visit Taiwan, some day. Here's a couple of pics of the countryside near me, I took yesterday.
I've spent many happy hours hunting rabbits for the pot, and foxes for the farmer, in this valley over the years.
Thanks pal, always a pleasure to read your posts, and those are excellent pics
Thanks Harry.
Yes, I'm quite smitten by the depths, and changing qualities of those more subtle Midnight Specials.
When I first received my Guardians knife, I must admit I was secretly hoping for a flashy, spectacular 'Double A Side' example. I might have mentioned before, that being left handed, I like my knives with a pretty pile side, in addition to a decent mark side. At first, I thought the mark side of my knife had most of the character. Now, I like both sides very much, especially after reading GT's comparison of the mark side to alpha particle tracks through a cloud chamber. In fact, I think of my Guardians knife as a kind of Midnight Special on the pile side!
I'm curious what you think of the ergonomics of the larger Lambsfoot, considering the handle of the medium size swayback seems to rest perfectly within the palm of the hand.
I used the swell end, straight handled stag Lambsfoot for a few months while I'd misplaced my ebony swayback; and now I have my ebony Lambsfoot back again, I definitely prefer the swayback handle shape.
It's interesting that hand cutting tools actually predate homo sapiens, and as such, our eyes have very ingrained and definite concepts of what looks right and wrong in a knife. Symmetry and proportion, and surface finish are all intuitively assessed by the human eye, and even a millimetre more or less in different areas can make a knife look different, without knowing exactly why.
When I first came to traditional knives, and the Porch, there were many knife patterns that seemed strange, or ugly to me. The Lambsfoot was one of those knives.
That was primarily a visual judgment. Later, when I acquired examples of many of those 'ugly' knife patterns, I learned to trust the feedback of my hand more than my eye. I find the swayback handle, paired with the tapering width of the straight edged blade combine to make an extremely comfortable knife to deploy and use, especially in conjunction with an example with an easily pinchable blade.
When I came to design my own fixed blade version of the Lambsfoot knife, I looked at my hand, and was reassured by the fact that both open and closed, it has no straight lines, only curves and tapers.
The best design features of this extremely comfortable, fixed blade utility knife are due to the astute observation and ergonomic sense of that working cutler long ago, whose name we may never know, who created the first Lambsfoot knife.
Superb post Chin
When I sent out the email about the Midnight Specials, it was hard for me to put into words that they had a beauty and charm all of their own. My own Guardians Lambsfoot has a lot of 'fireworks' going on, but I think the more subtle horn is possibly even more beautiful, particularly when well photographed in good light, I love to see all the different layers of horn. It's nice to see the pile side of your knife again, as well as your amazing Lambshank Here's both sides of my Guardians Lambsfoot out in Leeds yesterday (I really do need to get in and take some close-ups of the horn myself). Have a great Sunday Guardians
The building in the background, known locally as The Dalek, is Yorkshire's highest.
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Superb post Chin
Here's both sides of my Guardians Lambsfoot out in Leeds yesterday (I really do need to get in and take some close-ups of the horn myself). Have a great Sunday Guardians
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The building in the background, known locally as The Dalek, is Yorkshire's highest.
"Fireworks" seems like a fitting description to use on November 5th.
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that blade shape gets more and more interesting as I consider it. even the modern interpretations
Yes indeed
I remember, when my grandfather gave me my very first Lambsfoot as a kid, I thought it looked very odd indeed, but I have grown to appreciate the pattern more and more as I have got older, just an absolute pleasure to use "Fireworks" seems like a fitting description to use on the November 5th.
True!
I'd almost forgotten!