Buckles Blog: More on "Teddy" (From Bill Strong)

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Casey McCoy Cainan said...: Would there have been a reason for this elephant to be worked with a Lockhart (may have that misspelled) while working in harness?; 22 May, 2007 15:20
Buckles said...: That looks like a regular hook to me.
A lockhart hook was simply a blade with a piece of bone attached to each side like the handle on a pearl handled revolver, with only the tip showing.; 23 May, 2007 20:37
Casey McCoy Cainan said...: Sorry, I got bad info in my life, I was told a Lockhart was a hook with a whip braided on the handle end.What would the correct name for this be?; 24 May, 2007 15:22
Anonymous said...: I'm confused also. Lou Regan had a short bull hook with a keeper and lash on the end, and showed me how to make one which I have to this day. He called it a Lockhart hook also, he told me it was named after an elephant trainer named Lockhart. We used a piece of glass bottle to taper the wood, and the hook was made out of a yard rake tine, heated and bent just so. Wade Burck; 25 May, 2007 21:12
Casey McCoy Cainan said...: Funny you say that MR. Burck, I was given a Hook of the same design by Terrell Jacobs III, who received it from MR. Lou Regan. He is the one who I heard call it a Lockhart.; 26 May, 2007 16:21

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