You're on my 'ignore' list
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. I don't recall why, but it's a very small list, and I do not add posters to it without good cause. That said, I appreciate what you say. It's rather a curse for younger folks today that their internet history will come back to haunt them, and I do feel people deserve a second chance. However, I don't think you can post a half-written article here, containing a lot of mistakes, and a certain amount of misinformation, and expect posters here to correct it for you. I've been a professional writer for most of my life, and I hope you won't mind if I give you some advice, which is intended to be helpful, not patronising. You have one name, and one reputation, so don't risk tarnishing either by publishing information you have not thoroughly researched. Don't confuse guesses with facts, and if you do use conjecture, make sure you make it clear that's what it is, or someone will come along and punch big holes in your 'facts', and you'll end up looking foolish. When you publish an article about a subject, you're presenting yourself as an authority, so don't write it until you ARE an authority. I've been quietly writing an article about the Lambsfoot knife for a couple of years, and I still realise more research is needed. Instead of presenting the readers of your blog with an article which will add to the huge amount of misinformation on the internet, why not keep it short, and tell them what you actually KNOW. You could tell them about your solitary Lambsfoot, and why you like it so much (and hopefully why you regret spoiling it with an easy-open notch). You have very limited experience of the pattern, and your opinions about it may change overtime, as you acquire new ones for example, so why not moderate your ambition? This is not meant to be criticism, enthusiasm is commendable, don't be dispirited, but try not to make mistakes either. An example of this is your discussion about sailor's knives, the Lambsfoot is not a sailor's knife, and so far as I know, has no connection to the water. There's some very good discussion about sailor's knives in one of Charlie
@waynorth's threads if you're interested in the subject, but it's worth noting that one of the Sheffield 'Town Patterns' is a Boat Knife, similar in design to a Dadley or Kephart-style knife. It has been produced for over a hundred years, sells very well, and is still in production today. It has a pointed end