Great job and cool knife!
Great cleanup job! I have a (presumably stainless) Taylor's Eye Witness from the 1960s or so. It's a pattern pretty well suited for farm work. Long enough to do most anything, while easy to open with gloves. I've never trimmed a sheep's hoof with it, but have done it with my rigging knife (the guy that was supposed to have done it had a POS dull pocketknife, and then there was me, with a freshly cleaned and sharpened Canadian Navy knife in my back pocket; that I'd just gotten in the mail a day prior). GEC's now copying the old Sheffield pattern, and the prices are just nutty. Double that of a Taylor's Eye Witness or Wright.
Thanks guys! I'm going to ask my mother if she still has any of Dad's pocket knives. I know very little about trad knives, although I'm now eager to learn! Well done on the hoof cutting. Dad usually used shears. I looked up Taylor's Eye Witness. They still make traditional knives. The prices are very reasonable if you don't mind plastic scales, for the most part.https://bakewellcookshop.com/cutting-and-chopping/pocket-knives/sheffield-made-pocket-knives.html?limit=allGotta say though that plastic scales seem quite wrong on a trad.
Well done. Just enough to preserve it without a full restoration. I really like how it came out.
And, besides, the plastic they use is CHEAP. Whether it be on the old lambsfoot (in which, they have shrunken quite a bit, thus it will be getting a stag handle eventually) or a newer Barlow-type knife they call the "Clip Point". The Endurance folders seem like good candidates for fitting new handles on, as they are assembled with Torx screws and not pins. Thus, my biggest hassle, removing and replacing the pins, is no longer an issue.
A Wright still makes Lambfoot knives with natural covers. Here is one with Rosewood.
That's especially disappointing about the quality of plastic in the Taylor's knives. I've become more and more taken with the warmth (both look and feel) of wooden scales.I remember Dad's IXLs being in the Barlow style with bone or stag handles. Probably bone as he would have bought them for utility rather than cachet. But they might have been plastic that looked like the natural materials, if that was an option in the 70s-80s.
Here ya go. Not going to win any beauty contests, but it's never let me down.
Looks like a handy knife to getter done.