I have the Anchor, very versatile... I forgot i had it in my pocket when I went to fly at an airport, so I hid it under a Bush and picked it up 2 weeks later.
Wazz_Bree Wipple I bought the Anchor Messer a year or two back and made a video, Paddy saw my video and immediately ordered one. Suddenly everybody was buying them! It’s a really well made version on a great old pattern. I rate it very highly.
I was a sheep farmer and trimmed thousand of feet with the CK. RLF, a brilliant knife, and an example of form following function . Retired now so I buy Taylors Eye Witness.
I’ve always wondered if trimming sheep’s feet was a real thing or just a myth, thank you for confirming it. Where I live, I’m surrounded by sheep farms, but I’ve never asked any of the farmers what knives they carry, if any. One of them was round at my house once and he needed a knife and had to borrow mine as he didn’t have one.
@@slick_slicers Trimming feet is a necessity to cut out foot rot and keep feet from overgrowing. Lame sheep do not gain weight. A happy sheep is a fat sheep.
I have the locking model of this for maybe twenty years. I found it didn't take or hold a great edge so I started using it as a beater to do nasty jobs with. I actually despise it and take no care of it at all. It never gets sharpened to anything better than just about cutting paper. In my videos you sometimes hear me say you don't need a razor edge to cut green wood. I know that from the CK knife. It can do anything I have done with other knives and sometimes easier because the handle is really comfortable and I can put power into the cut. As a knife I hate it. I have to say though despite many years of rough treatment and abuse all it shows is a bit of a worn blade and a bit of blade play. I have no regard for it at all, actually I spit on it! It keeps my "good" knife sharp though because it takes care of random cutting tasks not requiring a razor and as I said has stood up to more work and rougher work than many knives get. For many years I never left home without it. It's a great little knife!
vinniesdayoff there are three more variants on this theme to come. It’s a wonder to me that people still make this crap, and worse still that people sell them when simple SAK or even Rough Riders are no more expensive, but much better quality.
@@slick_slicers The days of the folder as we knew them are dying out. Less and less people use or admire them. Any old thing will do to cut bags or string
Your blade 'classification' sounds right to me! What I find interesting though is that the cutting edge on all four blades (lamb, sheep, ram and wharncliffe) is the same, the only difference being in the bit you don't use! I suppose the wharncliffe (and to a lesser extent the lambfoot) allows for a pointier point, but that's about all. As I understand it these were conceived as tools for making a straight and level cut of the kind needed to trim a sheep's foot, and it's my least favourite blade shape because it lacks a 'belly' thus restricting the range of uses it's suited to. Looks nice though. Paddy likes them because they're good at cutting cardboard boxes (which you could be forgiven for thinking is his chief pastime!)
David S I like the Sheepsfoot shape. Partly it’s nostalgic, it takes me back to my nautical routes, partly it’s the practical, non-threatening look. It’s not the best edc shape though, obviously I like my PK70s. Now he’s retired, I think Paddy is just looking for things to fill his day, and shredding cardboard seems to do! I like getting my knives really sharp then avoiding cutting things so they don’t lose that super-sharp edge!
I purchased a Vintage Lockwood Brothers Sheffield "real lamb foot" (stamped in blade) swayback March 14 from a collector in the UK & it is lost in the mail!😣I sure hope it shows up someday 🙏 It has the same "style" lamb foot blade as that sweet Lee White TEW! I didn't know you had the newer Anker Messer - have you done a video on it? Take Care & Stay Safe!
Warthogg you’re welcome to this one, if you want it, but I’ll not post it till I’m sending you something else as it wouldn’t be worth the postage! Yes there’s a video on the Anker Messer. When I bought it, I made the video and it prompted Paddy to order one on the spot. That little event caused a chain reaction leading to the resurgence of this ancient pattern. My Anker Messer video is here: ruclips.net/video/nmI7VXYuL5g/видео.html
I love an argument and in this case I have nothing but agreement with you. Your description of what constitutes a lamb's, sheep's or ram's foot is exactly in line with what I have always thought. It's kind of accepted generally with most of the knife folk I used to know in the UK. CK have been knocking out stuff like that since the sixties, I have a few of their knives including a useable version of the TL29 linesman's knife, if the steel is as good as 420 I will be surprised. An Army canteen teaspoon will probably cut as well as most CK knives . P.S. It seems I am a glutton for punishment.
@@slick_slicers Sorry to hear that Eric, sometimes you buy things that just end up making you angry, at the moment the monkey on my back is an Ariston gas water heater. If I could meet the designer, he would be wearing it. Internally! Fit for purpose is the phrase in the UK sale of goods act, so much stuff that gets away with not meeting that standard.
chris osh I bought these four knives just to see what’s being sold these days. It was less than £30 for the lot, this one just annoyed me extra as it was the most expensive of the four. After the ridiculous, we’ll go to the good, the great, then the genuinely sublime over the next couple of weeks.
The Lamb foot origin from the shoulder profile narrowing down to the hoof point with a sharp angle to the tip. NOT the foot print on the ground .A Sheep foot becomes more parallel with a more flat angle on the ground. That is why the joseph Rodgers back is a bit with an arch to the other direction than a foot print . It symbolise the whole front leg of a Lamb.
Glad we finally cleared up which one is the "real" one! lol That anchor knife keeps popping up everywhere I look, and I know it's only a matter of time before one ends up in my pocket. I blame you, Paddy, and Vinnie. Cheers, my friend.
Yes, I'd have thought it was a carving blade at first glance, they're sometimes Wharncliffes. There's one of those hardware stores in the next town, does nearly all non Chinese stuff, got a fantastic Nieto with olive wood handle from there. Unfortunately he's done a bunk the minute the virus came along.
How did I miss this video! After all these years I finally know what the real lamb foot blade is! We can only assume the confusion in the name is because the blade was the favorite of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe, who popularized is usage among the workers on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. Now it all makes sense! LOL
The Lord Wharncliffe in question was called James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, and was a patron of Joseph Rodgers and Sons, (trademark ⭐️and Maltese cross) who still exist, in name at least, in Sheffield. They are now part of the Ibberson group (tm #️⃣#️⃣). Apparently, it came about following and after dinner conversation with a Church of England Archdeacon in or around 1820. There should have been a bicentennial celebration last year!
Do yer meen that or do yer want fork andles? Had a shop just like that in Spalding When i was growing up. He had everything! Amazing shop. My favourite sketch or one of them was the Rev. Spooner.
CK is boring but very tuff steel for the money have seriously abused one I mean sliced through things on top of metal sheet and it stayed sharp for ages . And was easily brought back .
Len Zielenski glad you enjoyed it so much! Do you have a volume control? I might talk shite, hey, of course I talk shite (see 9min 33 sec), but it’s perfectly audible shite! I do this to share what I have because people asked me to. I make no money out of it, so if it not for you, then fine by me... off you toddle!
I have the Anchor, very versatile... I forgot i had it in my pocket when I went to fly at an airport, so I hid it under a Bush and picked it up 2 weeks later.
Wazz_Bree Wipple I bought the Anchor Messer a year or two back and made a video, Paddy saw my video and immediately ordered one. Suddenly everybody was buying them! It’s a really well made version on a great old pattern. I rate it very highly.
Definitely a Wharncliffe 👌
Very informative.
Thanks David.
I was a sheep farmer and trimmed thousand of feet with the CK. RLF, a brilliant knife, and an example of form following function . Retired now so I buy Taylors Eye Witness.
I’ve always wondered if trimming sheep’s feet was a real thing or just a myth, thank you for confirming it. Where I live, I’m surrounded by sheep farms, but I’ve never asked any of the farmers what knives they carry, if any. One of them was round at my house once and he needed a knife and had to borrow mine as he didn’t have one.
@@slick_slicers Trimming feet is a necessity to cut out foot rot and keep feet from overgrowing. Lame sheep do not gain weight. A happy sheep is a fat sheep.
I have the locking model of this for maybe twenty years. I found it didn't take or hold a great edge so I started using it as a beater to do nasty jobs with. I actually despise it and take no care of it at all. It never gets sharpened to anything better than just about cutting paper. In my videos you sometimes hear me say you don't need a razor edge to cut green wood. I know that from the CK knife. It can do anything I have done with other knives and sometimes easier because the handle is really comfortable and I can put power into the cut. As a knife I hate it. I have to say though despite many years of rough treatment and abuse all it shows is a bit of a worn blade and a bit of blade play. I have no regard for it at all, actually I spit on it! It keeps my "good" knife sharp though because it takes care of random cutting tasks not requiring a razor and as I said has stood up to more work and rougher work than many knives get. For many years I never left home without it. It's a great little knife!
vinniesdayoff there are three more variants on this theme to come. It’s a wonder to me that people still make this crap, and worse still that people sell them when simple SAK or even Rough Riders are no more expensive, but much better quality.
@@slick_slicers The days of the folder as we knew them are dying out. Less and less people use or admire them. Any old thing will do to cut bags or string
vinniesdayoff that’s why I encourage Taylor’s Eye Witness/Lee White to keep going, and keep their standards up!
I love those old school style shops
Rab adabadoo so do I, let’s hope they’ll still be there after the lockdown!
Your blade 'classification' sounds right to me! What I find interesting though is that the cutting edge on all four blades (lamb, sheep, ram and wharncliffe) is the same, the only difference being in the bit you don't use! I suppose the wharncliffe (and to a lesser extent the lambfoot) allows for a pointier point, but that's about all.
As I understand it these were conceived as tools for making a straight and level cut of the kind needed to trim a sheep's foot, and it's my least favourite blade shape because it lacks a 'belly' thus restricting the range of uses it's suited to. Looks nice though. Paddy likes them because they're good at cutting cardboard boxes (which you could be forgiven for thinking is his chief pastime!)
David S I like the Sheepsfoot shape. Partly it’s nostalgic, it takes me back to my nautical routes, partly it’s the practical, non-threatening look. It’s not the best edc shape though, obviously I like my PK70s. Now he’s retired, I think Paddy is just looking for things to fill his day, and shredding cardboard seems to do! I like getting my knives really sharp then avoiding cutting things so they don’t lose that super-sharp edge!
I purchased a Vintage Lockwood Brothers Sheffield "real lamb foot" (stamped in blade) swayback March 14 from a collector in the UK & it is lost in the mail!😣I sure hope it shows up someday 🙏
It has the same "style" lamb foot blade as that sweet Lee White TEW!
I didn't know you had the newer Anker Messer - have you done a video on it?
Take Care & Stay Safe!
Warthogg you’re welcome to this one, if you want it, but I’ll not post it till I’m sending you something else as it wouldn’t be worth the postage! Yes there’s a video on the Anker Messer. When I bought it, I made the video and it prompted Paddy to order one on the spot. That little event caused a chain reaction leading to the resurgence of this ancient pattern. My Anker Messer video is here: ruclips.net/video/nmI7VXYuL5g/видео.html
@@slick_slicers Thanks Buddy 👍
I love an argument and in this case I have nothing but agreement with you.
Your description of what constitutes a lamb's, sheep's or ram's foot is exactly in line with what I have always thought.
It's kind of accepted generally with most of the knife folk I used to know in the UK.
CK have been knocking out stuff like that since the sixties, I have a few of their knives including a useable version of the TL29 linesman's knife, if the steel is as good as 420 I will be surprised. An Army canteen teaspoon will probably cut as well as most CK knives .
P.S. It seems I am a glutton for punishment.
chris osh frankly, I think it’s a piece of crap, and I’m mostly annoyed by the price... but there’s worse to come!
@@slick_slicers Sorry to hear that Eric, sometimes you buy things that just end up making you angry, at the moment the monkey on my back is an Ariston gas water heater.
If I could meet the designer, he would be wearing it. Internally!
Fit for purpose is the phrase in the UK sale of goods act, so much stuff that gets away with not meeting that standard.
chris osh I bought these four knives just to see what’s being sold these days. It was less than £30 for the lot, this one just annoyed me extra as it was the most expensive of the four. After the ridiculous, we’ll go to the good, the great, then the genuinely sublime over the next couple of weeks.
The Lamb foot origin from the shoulder profile narrowing down to the hoof point with a sharp angle to the tip. NOT the foot print on the ground .A Sheep foot becomes more parallel with a more flat angle on the ground. That is why the joseph Rodgers back is a bit with an arch to the other direction than a foot print . It symbolise the whole front leg of a Lamb.
Glad we finally cleared up which one is the "real" one! lol That anchor knife keeps popping up everywhere I look, and I know it's only a matter of time before one ends up in my pocket. I blame you, Paddy, and Vinnie. Cheers, my friend.
David Kurle who knew there was a definitive source! The Anker Messer is a fine piece!
Yes, I'd have thought it was a carving blade at first glance, they're sometimes Wharncliffes. There's one of those hardware stores in the next town, does nearly all non Chinese stuff, got a fantastic Nieto with olive wood handle from there. Unfortunately he's done a bunk the minute the virus came along.
JHAYKHAY25 these places are wee gems, but become fewer by the day!
How did I miss this video! After all these years I finally know what the real lamb foot blade is! We can only assume the confusion in the name is because the blade was the favorite of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe, who popularized is usage among the workers on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. Now it all makes sense! LOL
The Lord Wharncliffe in question was called James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, and was a patron of Joseph Rodgers and Sons, (trademark ⭐️and Maltese cross) who still exist, in name at least, in Sheffield. They are now part of the Ibberson group (tm #️⃣#️⃣). Apparently, it came about following and after dinner conversation with a Church of England Archdeacon in or around 1820. There should have been a bicentennial celebration last year!
@@slick_slicers, that'll teach me to trust wikipedia!
Is that real lamb foot sturdy? Just found one for around 10.
VinniesDayOff RUclips Channel has the best field test of the Messner Anchor Knife.
Yes, you’re absolutely right! He does some pretty extreme stuff with small penknives. A great channel!
I wanna know where this shop is it sounds awesome 😊
Drew White it’s a real Aladin’s cave! Boa I Biggar, Scotland.
Happy Easter Eric.
Sorry I must have missed this! Happy almost Easter (Lent anyway) this year!
@@slick_slicers hihi. Better late than never
Hope you are well and thanks for liking my instagram photos.
Eeh Granville, fetch yer cloth. A man ere wants a clean knife. .
RHINO 54 thing back, is probably more the 2 Ronnie’s 4 candles sketch! But at least someone knew what I was on about!
Do yer meen that or do yer want fork andles?
Had a shop just like that in Spalding When i was growing up. He had everything! Amazing shop. My favourite sketch or one of them was the Rev. Spooner.
British humor :)
Erik Ramaekers I think CK are German and if there’s one thing that upsets the disciplined, ordered Teutonic mind, it’s equivocation!
@@slick_slicers I did a bit of research as well and they are made in Russia.But that's just what i found out.
CK is boring but very tuff steel for the money have seriously abused one I mean sliced through things on top of metal sheet and it stayed sharp for ages . And was easily brought back .
very funny-how stupid people became to believe thats a Real Lamb foot.Ask Joseph Rodgers brand what is real.
As I said in the video, I don’t think there’s a man alive who wouldn’t call this Wharncliffe!
About the ugliest cover on a knife
Ha ha! You might just be right! It’s certainly not the prettiest!
OK, 3 minutes of muttering and stammering under your breath is as much as i can take. Constructive criticism: get to the point. Enunciate.
Len Zielenski glad you enjoyed it so much! Do you have a volume control? I might talk shite, hey, of course I talk shite (see 9min 33 sec), but it’s perfectly audible shite! I do this to share what I have because people asked me to. I make no money out of it, so if it not for you, then fine by me... off you toddle!