Nice one JP, that Prévert 'poetry' almost reads like some of Samuel Beckett's French poems!
Very nice hoard you assembled there, Jack, and generous as always, my friend.
That looks like a tasty chilli, there Greg.
I also like seeing those photos of everyones Lambsfoot knives at work.
This pic was an outtake (bad lighting) from a while ago, of a quick Lambsfoot-made, chilli fired snack.
Japanese pickled radish, cucumber, garlic, silken tofu and a good dipping soy sauce, all chilled - and the key ingredient - fine slivers of an intense, homegrown Thai birds-eye chilli. These might not be super hot for a real chilli-fiend, but eating a small sliver will get your undivided attention pretty quick! They'd definitely be well north of 100,000 Scoville units, I think!
Cheers! I enjoyed that idyllic 'English Pastoral' looking photo sequence with your Unity, out and about. Looks like you got out into some nice country.
I miss the
craic at those great English and Irish pubs!
Fine group, Jack (MrKnife).
They're all very nice, but I recall you saying the snakewood pair were advertised as being made by Wright's 'gaffer' - Mr Maleham himself? That's definitely a plus, and I think I recall reading somewhere that this is common to all the snakewood handled knives A. Wright & Son make, due to the cost of the cover material. Snakewood is one of the most expensive exotic timbers, I understand, and is extremely hard - 3800 lb/force on the Janka scale. By comparison, ebony can be around 3200 lb/force, and rosewood around 1780 lb/force. (The Janka scale measures how much force it takes to embed a .444" steel ball, to its full diameter, half its height into the timber sample.) As a reference point, White Ash, American Beech, Teak, and Red and English Oak are generally in the 1100-1300 lb/force hardness range.
Did you get a bit of mineral oil into those buffalo covers? The ends might be a bit dry. Natural materials often undergo a bit of dimensional change with long air flights and going from the conditions in one part of the world to another.
I had this one out again, over the weekend, after some maintenance sharpening and stropping: