New light box, new blade and sheath

IH8U

IH8U

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Well, some of you saw this blade in progress as I was asking for advice on hollow tubes or solid pins. I went with 3 solid and 1 tube for the lanyard. I finished up the sheath this weekend and made a new cheapy light box (hey it works).

The sheath turned out well, but I think I ground the knife to thin to be used as a bushcraft so I just going to beat the hell out of it for testing purposes. I have already started on another and hopefully I won't get it as thin. I sanded out the little brown spot on the micarta and sanded it all much finer after I took the pics.

Comments and critiques always wanted and apprecited.

Thanks
Rob

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Looking good Rob! Looks comfy, functional, and the finish is solid!

Can't wait to see the next.
 
Everything looks good, knife, sheath and photos. I see you went with solid pins and one lanyard tube, looks good that way but I'm not up to speed on the style.

What sort of lightbox did you make? I was going to build one a while back, but I decided that we live in a 300+ day lightbox so why not just focus on outdoor photos? I think mine have improved somewhat but are not as clear as yours look.
 
Thanks John and Jason, things are improving.

P J 234 said:
Everything looks good, knife, sheath and photos. I see you went with solid pins and one lanyard tube, looks good that way but I'm not up to speed on the style.

What sort of lightbox did you make? I was going to build one a while back, but I decided that we live in a 300+ day lightbox so why not just focus on outdoor photos? I think mine have improved somewhat but are not as clear as yours look.
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PJ I used a clear plastic document style bin (2'x1.5'x 1.5' deep), cut out one of the larger sides out and replaced that with velum paper. I hung a piece of white paper in the back (was the bottom) of the bin. I'm using 3 lights with 100w daylight bulbs. 2 shining in through the velum from the top and 1 cliped to the side and shining down on the item. I don't use flash with my camera (Nikon d40x) and I get in nice and close. I'll take a pic of the set up later on tonight, but it was simple to make and works great.
 
The light box seems to be giving you good illumination control but you need to work on
depth of field. Note that only small parts of your first few pictures are sharp. There are
two ways to deal with this, you'll probably need to use both of them:

If your camera has manual settings, set the f-stop to a large number: f11+ (this actually
make the apperature small). This will mean that you need longer exposures, which may
well require a tripod.

Compose your pictures so that all parts of the knife are a similar distance from the lens.
You did this in your fourth picture. See how much sharper it is?

This does remove some composition options, which is painful, but you really aren't doing
yourself any favors posting fuzzy pictures. (In case you're wondering, pros solve this
problem by using view cameras that the rest of us can only dream about.)
 
Dan Pierson said:
The light box seems to be giving you good illumination control but you need to work on
depth of field. Note that only small parts of your first few pictures are sharp. There are
two ways to deal with this, you'll probably need to use both of them:

If your camera has manual settings, set the f-stop to a large number: f11+ (this actually
make the apperature small). This will mean that you need longer exposures, which may
well require a tripod.

Compose your pictures so that all parts of the knife are a similar distance from the lens.
You did this in your fourth picture. See how much sharper it is?

This does remove some composition options, which is painful, but you really aren't doing
yourself any favors posting fuzzy pictures. (In case you're wondering, pros solve this
problem by using view cameras that the rest of us can only dream about.)
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Much thanks, I do appreciate the photography tips! I'll check on the f-stop. I do have a tripod so using that will help as well. I think with the one pic you mentioned (#4) I was not crouching at so steep of an angle and was more on top of the knife.
 
you will have greater depth of field with wider angle settings, you will also gain depth of field by backing up. Remember that you depth of field is typically 1/3 in front of your plane of critical focus, 2/3 behind.
Every full stop 1.4-1.8-2-2.8-3.5-4.5-5.6-8-11-16-22-32-45-64 is equivalent to cutting your light throughthe lens in half, so you need to double your shutter speed (law of reciprocity) until you get to extremely long or extremely short exposures at which point you hit reciprocity failure, and it all gets a little wonky

Use a tripod and either a timer release or cable

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