Like a lot of Sheffielders, including one of my daughters, I was born in the hospital opposite the building. The University own that now too! 
Very cool post Dylan.Being homeschooled for much of my boyhood education, the opportunities for reading were rather endless and I took considerable advantage of it. Being a rather voracious reader, I read everything I could get my hands on and I consider myself rather fortunate that my mother had and maintained a rather extensive library.
As a young lad, I was particularly drawn to stories of men and their canine companions and I even acquired my own wee collection of vintage books that contained stories of dogs and the like with my own allowance money. I was rather fond of Jack London, Jack O'Brien, and the like. So it might seem a bit odd that one of my favorite stories was an old book named Bob, Son of Battle or Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir, written by the author Alfred Ollivant. I am not sure exactly why, but I was rather taken with this story as a boy and I even sympathized with the "villain" in a sense. It also helped that the book was written in a dialect that I found rather charming.
In any case, you might be wondering what this has to do with Lambsfoot knives and I suppose you would be right to wonder. However, I was thinking about this book the other day and I was struck by the thought that the men depicted in this story would have surely been men who would have quite possibly been in possession of a Lambsfoot knife. They were, after all, shepherds of a sort and most definitely of the working class and in one case there is even mention of a "black-handled jack-knife". I wouldn't think it too far a stretch of the imagination...
Regardless, it is a childhood favorite of mine and I thought it would pair quite nicely with Rosie for a brief photo op.
I'm having a few days in Sheffield towards the end of the week
Thanks Jack
Just about to hit the hay here, and I'll be away in Sheffield until Sunday, but I'll have this Lambsfoot with me
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In that particular pic, the two hills in the background are Carl Wark, an Iron Age hillfort, and the slightly loftier Higgar Tor
This stubborn ol' girl has finally smoothed out. She got a little better and then a lot worse ( I think a little burr of metal broke loose and got trapped for a bit. ) After some heavy flushing and a few blasts of compressed air, I think it is cleared out.
Any how, here she is basking in the eclipse light.
so something about that doesnt look right
the blade doesnt seemed to be opening all the way right? it is flush tho :/
But, in all seriousness, that is indeed an odd angle...
Jack, PLEASE stop using this thread to practice posting, either review your posts before posting, edit them afterwards, or ask for some advice in the Technical subforum, and practice posting there Sorry, but this can only be said so many times, it's gone on way too long, and you're making a mess of the thread. The ebony looks nice, what are you going to do, return it? Blade cant is something I really hate personally.
I have noticed that a lot of the Sheffield knives look like that Jack . I just checked my TEW Lambsfoot and it is not like that . Otherwise I think that Rodgers is a pretty nice looking Barlow .so something about that doesnt look right
the blade doesnt seemed to be opening all the way right? it is flush tho :/
Thanks Dylan
That's a bad case of blade cant on your Rodgers Lambsfoot. I've seen that on other recent examples of their knives too
