All About Pocket Knives

Just Plain Dave wrote:I'm ashamed of it but I have a comment about the #56.

I don't like a knife that has the blade at a downward angle when open. I'm afraid I could never love a #56.

I destroyed a Rough Rider Canoe for that very reason.

There's no shame in prefference Dave. Personnally, I don't like spear points or congress patterns There's millions of beautiful examples of them, but they just don't ring my bells.
I get what you're saying about the downward angle. It took me a minute to get a grip on it too, only a minute. To me, it's actually quite comfortable in the hand and easy to work with. For me the big test was whittling. If it's comftable enough to sit and fiddle with then I'm never gonna put it down, and it whittled the bejezus out of a few good sticks already. I give it a big

Hey Twoshoes, nice shot with the barlow! Id watch out though! If you close that blade it might get tossed in the salad!
Did you give that lil guy the dip, or is that all natural?

Mike, Perry, Caleb.....you guys are rockin' the Casbah!! Great pics

Thankin ya Scott!

really beautiful pics guys !

Beautiful pics,Fella's!! ......Perry,that’s one SWEET Kershaw.

Thanks Paul! These are just to show that I don't need to tweak the photos to get the shots.
These were not touched up in Iphoto at all, just shot and added! Think I'll start doin more like this.

I still have a loooooooong way to go.

Here is a current shot of a couple of knives.

Case CV Medium Stockman as close as how it looks as I could get it:


And a not quite good shot showing my Humpback Whittler with the modded spay:

I'd say those are really good Dave. On older knives, it's always harder to get all the lighting just right on them.

I have a better than average compact digital camera (Nikon Coolpix P60).

It can pretty much sing and dance.

I shoot MOSTLY outside under the RV shelter. We have a bunch of wood stacked there.

Main improvement I could make would be tripod. Use to have a couple, but I haven't seen them in a while.

Yep, that Tripod will make a BIG difference and you can get one pretty cheap.
Here's a few more I just shot. Mexico by way of Texas!

singin46 wrote:Yep, that Tripod will make a BIG difference and you can get one pretty cheap.
Here's a few more I just shot. Mexico by way of Texas!

Whow Singin,

Now your cookin with Gas... Awesome Pics man

All of those are very good shots Perry, well done
Tim

One other thing I do that made a HUGE difference with my old Sony Floppy Drive Camera and a decent difference with this one, is shoot the biggest pic the camera will take.

Then crop and using Irfanview I shrink it to a more normal size. Tightens up the grain a lot.

MikeEngland wrote:Hey Twoshoes, nice shot with the barlow! Id watch out though! If you close that blade it might get tossed in the salad!
Did you give that lil guy the dip, or is that all natural?

Mike, thats a time tested patina.
They look the best, I'm really liking how this one looked after all the time it spent in the pocket.

Thanks Tim and Bonehead! Case XX 40 to 64 stamp. This was a knife I found on ebay several years ago. It had been destroyed, tons of paint and rust all over it. It needed to be restored IMO.

Monk got most of these from me but I kept these 2 earlier ones for EDC.

Very cool idea with the lit zippo! Really adds a neat effect. These are some great pics.

Thanks Mike!

trying to learn the photogtaphy side of this hobby

Knice ones roof!!


Beautiful as always Perry!

Great pics everyone.

Perry, I'm loving the different set ups that you have and the consistency in your photos is awesome.

Packed for Moose.

Nice shot Caleb! Hey roof, I would say you're doing very well cause it ain't easy to shoot that Abalone no matter what pattern it is.