James Mattis-How Do You Do Those Great Scans?

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James Mattis,
I saw your scans of the Spyderco Protos and some other scans and was wondering if you'd let out your secret. I've got a scanner and didn't even know it could do a 3-dimensional object. Mind you, I wasn't thinking about putting a blade to the scanner glass. But I tried doing one on my scanner and I failed miserably. I think you once said you use a blue cloth to get that blue background and I tried that also but my scan was all wacky. It was cool to see black coating on the Native but that's beside the point.

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Experiment. Experiment. My most recent scans are a heck of a lot better than what I was doing a year and a half ago or even six months ago.

Now I'm using an inexpensive Agfa Snap-Scan with the Corel photo-edit software that came with it. The blue cloth lets me ignore any more subtle color balance errors. I scan a big image at high-resolution and then reduce it. Your software may have different controls and options. Experiment. A crank up the brightness a bit.

I try various angles to get the best compromise on the lighting. If the grinding marks are along the same axis as the scanner light, the blade comes out nearly black on screen.

Happy exerimenting.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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ET,

I complained about the same problems and then Chuck Gollnick set me straight.

You may be using one of the newer, less expensive scanners based on a CDI element instead of a CCD. These newer ones have absolutely no depth-of-focus and can only scan items that can be placed directly in contact with the glass. You may need to take a picture the old way and then scan the photo in.
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James, you do excellent scans.

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"A knifeless man is a lifeless man"
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Thanx for the tips. I guess if it took James a year and a half to perfect I shouldn't be complaining after just 10 minutes of scanning. Guess I've got a lot of testing and experimenting to do.

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James,
I can't help but chuckle when you say "experiment"....... I seem to remember certain "CAT" scans that came from the devious mind of the mad scanner
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