EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

Knives&Lint said:
Ended up sticking with the Manix/Compact combo for the day. Like Goodfellas, Saturdays are for the wife around here, and mine decided she wanted to make a Costco trip then go out to supper. Got home and had a nice evening around the house and outside. I just gotta say, I'm not ready to let go of summer just yet

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Nevertheless, I must say the smoky whiskies have been appealing to me as of late
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Great pics, as usual, and very cool old school Sony receiver 👍🏼👍🏼
 
Knives&Lint said:
Then Friday we went on a bigger hike up to Rainier. We had visited this spot just a couple of weeks ago, but we enjoyed it so much we decided to return and explore further. Not sure how far it was or how high in elevation we got because much of the trail is unmarked and no longer maintained, but I know we were up there pretty far. The pics can't even begin to capture the scale of the place.

I could never tire of the prism effect on this waterfall.

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The waterfall is where the hike ends for all the sane people, but we're heading above closer to the peak. We stopped to eat at a little meadow which was our stopping point last time, where we were greeted by a herd of mountain goats

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Then we decided to head further up, the destination being at the end of the green vegetation in this pic

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Behind us the view is absolutely breathtaking, with many of the surrounding peaks in view (Adams and St. Helens visible here, and you can just barely make out Mt. Hood in the center)

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Ok, this is as far as we go. If I'm being honest the footing was starting to get pretty sketchy at this point

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Now for the trek back down

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The creek below the original waterfall provided the ideal spot to cool off

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Back home got cleaned up, switched to the Manix2 and Vic Compact, had some fajitas for supper, then walked across the street to the park to watch the sun set on the mountain we had spent the day on :cool:

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Still carrying the Manix this morning for now until I see what the day brings.

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I would say that was a pretty good & satisfying day !! 🇺🇸 😁
 
LimpCroissant said:
You can always be sure of one thing, whenever I'm home I'm surrounded by multiple knives. Tonight I decided to set my computer up outside, right next to the bird feeder and sit in my camp chair. I got my hummingbird friend buzzing around right next to me. This passed week I've learned that hummingbirds are super friendly little creatures. The other day I was up on a step stool pruning a bush against the back fence and he hovered up from behind the fence and just stared at me from a few feet away. Then he buzzed on over to the hummingbird feeder, got a sip of suga water, and buzzed back and watched me from the same spot in the air again. Now it seems like every time I come outside here, he buzzes on up within a few minutes, gets a drink of sugar, and then he has a tiny little twig in the tree next to me and just hangs out and watches me. He'll hangout there for like 10 minutes at a time, then buzz around for a minute or so and then perch back up there and watch me haha. I've got my Griptilian modified by Igorded (that's one hell of a name). He makes one hell of a set of scales though. Really nice fit and finish on the black and brown canvas micarta separated by a nice little red g10 liner with Ti standoffs separating them. Then I've got another one of my favorites, a A.G. Russell Acies 2. It was OEM'd by Kershaw/ZT in the US for A.G. back in probably somewhere in the early 2010s and sports a sweet titanium framelock with a ZDP-189 blade. I swear my knives have a lot more snail trails on them than what my pics show. They always seem to look brand new in my pics, but really many are all snailed and scratched up. I need to replace the glass that covers my camera lense on my phone.
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Getting snail trails to show in a photo is surprisingly difficult! I did some very unprofessional experimenting a while back and if I remember right, capturing them is almost exactly the opposite of what you would want for any other kind of picture.

Again, from memory. You want a strong light source, right above your knife. Maybe two to three feet high, or sixty to ninety centimeters, for our Science Units friends. It's better if it's a really ugly white light too, so that it gives good contrast. The background should be dull and non-reflective, and it would help if it's similar in color to your knife, because metals like to pick up background colors.

Low angles help with picking up subtle differences in surface finish, so you want to be close to the knife. As in, your camera lens is resting on the surface you're trying to photograph. My camera has a "macro" setting, for very close-up photos, and I almost always use it when trying to get these kinds of pictures.

Well, I almost always used it. I got paywalled by two image hosting sites now, and I've been too lazy to cough up for a membership, here.

If you decide to muck about with this yourself, post up some photos. Phone cameras have some features that may make photographing trails more challenging, so I'd like to see if somebody can make it work.
 
Monofletch said:
I see trouble on the horizon! I got 83 pages of divorce papers in my mailbox yesterday! 🤣🤣🤣

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ferider said:
I remember the feeling from 22 years ago. Signed them in Jan, got remarried in Feb 2002, tough, but best thing I ever did.

Hang in there, things are looking up.
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If I read between the lines, it’s a 83 page catalog that SMKW sent you to order from, I hope I’m correct 👍😆
 
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