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Try reflecting a dark or black background in the blade, and use reflected or diffused light. I seem to get better results with that combo.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Try reflecting a dark or black background in the blade, and use reflected or diffused light. I seem to get better results with that combo.


-Xander
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Thanks for the tips Xander, I'm going to try that.

I heard hamons were hard to photograph and so far it has been tough.

I just finished 3 sheaths, one for the black handled rigging knife and two for a pair in kryptonite and black/white glow! :D
 
In addition to the other tips, the second pic angle looks good, but light it with diffuse light and take a hat or piece of dark paper and move it around above the blade til it blocks that bright spot, set your metering to auto and it should help brighten up the rest of the pic. Remember, you need to look what is in the reflection, not what is on the blade. Do you have a polarizing filter? Try it at either 10am or 3pm when the sun is at roughly a 45* angle, if you get light at those times on your mountain.

Here is a hamon I got on a hatchet in direct light, it is washed out and barely visible.

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And here is one with diffuse reflected light and dark colored surroundings. You can see the bright spot at the tip where I missed blocking the reflection.

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-Xander
 
Morning men.Have a great Saturday! Xander enjoy taking your son on those Easter egg hunts(At least I am hoping you are able to get the time off work).Was always a blast with my kids!!
 
Morning y'all. We're planning to dye eggs today, by some sort of luck I have a three day weekend! I hope we don't get everything in the house dyed. I'm sure something will end up blue, again.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Morning y'all. We're planning to dye eggs today, by some sort of luck I have a three day weekend! I hope we don't get everything in the house dyed. I'm sure something will end up blue, again.


-Xander
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Nice! Lol you guys can have a human Easter egg if you want I bet!
 
Well, got some eggs colored up today. Also got my boy colored today as well.

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Well going to make the rounds tomorrow, the wife is headed to her moms in the morning and then over to my parents in the afternoon. Should be a good time for Zyler and his cousins!


-Xander
 
Good evening all.I took some pics of my one & only Fairly.

S7 & G10 5" Blade

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My daughters boyfriend took her out to the Tahquamenon Falls this morning. He got down on his knee and proposed to her.Which she accepted.So I am gaining another son who loves shooting and hunting.Have to turn him on to the great custom maker Daniel Fairly!!!! Have to get my second chopper quick.She stated she wants a big formal wedding AKA huge money.So get what I can before all the bills start rolling in.
 
Daniel when you get a chance maybe you could send me a picture of what you have in mind. We need to come up with a club like the Daniel Fairly wilderness survival group.What do you think Daniel?


Mike
 
JTR357, Thanks for posting the awesome photos!

Hey guys, super tired here. I just got out of the shop and it is 9:15 here.

I have been working on the Legal EDC run most of the day and have the scales drilled, chamfered and roughed out. Tomorrow I'll grind the fronts and backs (ends) of all them... after that I need to grind everything flat and heat treat.

I worked all day yesterday from 10 to 10 on a wakizashi only to have it shatter while hot straightening. I decided to do some more overtime today and spent this evening working on a small wakizashi/massive tanto (there is a name for them and I am blank right now) in .350" 1075 steel, it is 16" long.

Bigcountry talk to you soon on all of that! Sounds kickass!

Xander, that photo is priceless, awesome!
 
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Morning guys!

BigCountry congratulations to you and your daughter!

I'll try to get something drawn up later, it's going to be cool!
 
Morning men! Daniel I know it is going to be kick ass!!! Looking forward to putting it through it's paces!Off to drive down state 350 miles to visit family for a week.coming back on Sunday but I will be checking in here everyday.
 
Morning men.I am out of my element down here in the detroit area.how can people live in this shit hole.Traffic is crazy and houses are way too close! You men have a great monday!
 
sloth357 said:
daniel - details on waki/tanto.. O_O
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Cool you saw that! 16" long, 10" blade and .350" thick! I'm using Aldo's 1075 which is a special type of 1075, low manganese and made to very high specifications from what I understand. Chisel grind, cord wrap handle for sure and not too sure on the sheath.

By the way, we were talking steels a while back... 1095 vs 15n20 etc...
I need to write up my treatise on carbon steels. It seems because of marketing people think 1095 is simply better than 1084, 1075, etc but it just isn't true. Even 1060 gets so hard you have to temper it down. 1095 is probably the cheapest good steel out there and that it is why it is seen on many of the higher end production knives. I'm not bashing on 1095, it is great material and makes for a heirloom quality knife, I just think sometimes people look at the numbers and judge the steels that way.

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Morning men.I am out of my element down here in the detroit area.how can people live in this shit hole.Traffic is crazy and houses are way too close! You men have a great monday!
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Morning! I understand on being out of your element, I am the same way in a big city. I used to live in Austin, TX and the traffic about drove me nuts. There was a lot of cool stuff to do but good luck parking! Have a great day Sir!

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Hang in there Big, a whole different set of survival skills is needed for urban life!


-Xander
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Hey Xander good morning!

I hear you need that "urban camo" for city survival, the blue stuff is the best!
 
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