Interrupting Stan Shaw's Marmalade Sandwich

Beautiful photos of that gorgeous knife Mike By coincidence, I just rang Stan, but he must have been out in his workshop. Hope he's doing OK, I've been meaning to ring him for ages. It's his birthday in a few days

 

I came across this photo of Stan from March 1953 recently. It was taken at the same time as the more famous one with Ted Osborn in the foreground, but I'm not sure I've seen this one before.

 

I'll try giving Stan a ring again later Mike. I should call him more often, but both he and his wife are getting on, and I always worry about them having to get up to answer the phone. Stan wasn't too well at the beginning of the year, and even he hasn't seen one like this one before. The museum, where he has a workshop, has been closed, but Stan has his own door. I don't know if he will have gone in though, except perhaps to take care of his tools, and take work home. He gave up driving after cataract operations last year, so is reliant on his daughter and son-in-law to take him there, and he does most of his actual work in his home workshop anyway. I used to see him regularly at one time, and miss that.

It was nice to see this thread reappear, a shame so many of the photos are no longer in place

 

While it's white now, Stan still has just s much hair as when he was young Mike Until last year, a feller called Pete Goss used to have the workshop next to Stan at the museum. He had been there longer than Stan, and forged surgical instruments, scissors, and latterly bespoke wedding rings. Stan used his forge to do his HT. Pete has a great sense of humour, and one day, when I was with Stan, Pete brought a young couple to meet him (they were ordering wedding rings). As I opened the door to let them in, Pete immediately pointed at Stan's hair, and loudly proclaimed, "That's a wig that!"

A shame I don't have a photo of them together, but this is Pete

 

I passed on your best my friend, and have just sent you a PM

 

Hi Charlie, that's Stan's mark there Here he is in 1993, making another Sleeveboard. I thought you'd enjoy this one

 

After Billy Ibberson has finished swanning round the Cutler's Hall, this film, from 1954, has some good footage from the Ibberson factory