SharpByCoop • Gallery of Customs

Remember the hobo folding knife on the first page? Ronnie is versatile. Here's his rendition of the venerable Loveless drop point hunter.



Sheath was made by Ron and tooled by Louis Vega. His heart is as big as he is talented. This knife is a donation for a children's medical fund. Way to go, Ron! :thumbup:

Coop
 
Excellent work. It just goes to show that hard work and diligence pays off!
 
Thanks Coop,
Your talent with the cameras makes our work look better than it is.
The pictures will be use to show case the knife while raffle tickets are sold.
All the proceed will go to the Make a wish foundation for terminally ill kids.
In the end it’s all about the kids.
Thanks for what you do
Ronnie Packard
 
Joe sent me a job he just finished up. Wonderful amber stag on the ever-clean Johnson DP hunter.

Notice he added those beads around the perimeter. You can't look at those without thinking about Julie Warenski's style, no more than you can look at Steve Johnson's knife and not think about the RW Loveless influence. :thumbup:



Coop
 
Random, in that all three are completely different genre's.

Tony Bose. The Patriarch of slipjoints makers.





Tim Britton: Three fixed blades, two with engraving by Jim Small.



ABS Mastersmith J.D. Smith:



What's your fave?

Coop
 
That's as nice SRJ as I have seen.
That's some outstanding amber stag too.
Beautiful engraving and inlay and great phtoography to top it all off. :thumbup:
 
J.W. Smith folder in ivory micarta.



Mine, all mine.... :thumbup:

Coop
 
SharpByCoop said:
This one stopped me dead in my tracks. Ron hails from Texas, and sought me out because he saw an image of mine he liked in a magazine. His knife has so much going on he thought I could help him display it.

Check THIS out!



When the fork is folded and closed, it captures one of the two t-slot studs in a channel and holds it tight. Open the fork to release and separate. Gadget factor!

Coop
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just recently saw this picture in blade magazine the may 07 issue awsome picture
 
Thanks, inzane. :)

OK, I just took care of myself tonight. NO..... not THAT kind of care. Pervs!

I shot a few knives that I own that I hadn't gotten decent images of. So I did. But...... there is a secret at the bottom of the post. :confused:

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Notice I am a gadget lover. All of these have a nice mechanical flavor to them. Hard engineering. I like.

There is something notable I changed from my normal shots. You will be VERY hard pressed to see the difference. I'll fill you in tomorrow. You will be surprised because of the results. Guesses?

Coop
 
I'm not sure what you changed but compared to the previous images on this page there seems to be a relative absence of the highlights usually present in the more reflective or intensely lit areas of the knives. Is it possible you've switched to using a ring flash?
 
Hi Buddy,

Thanks for looking. You're close. The lighting DID change. But that's not what I am referring to.

Instead of my $2500 Canon 12mp EOS-5D, I used my newest pocket digicam, the Canon SD700IS

I took a timed shot of it by itself through the mirror:.



I am carrying this thing with me all over. It does it all! So quick to turn on and get a very good shot. Of course I know the value of a great camera, but I also know the value of having one with you all the time.

For these shots, I used my tent and instead of the strobes, I turned up the power on the modeling lights (Incandescent lights that help to show the correct lighting on the strobes. They run concurrently whle the strobes flash as they do. It is about 10% of the light value of the strobes complete).

Anyway, I simply changed the setting to macro, and the white balance to indoor: SNAP CLICK! For these shots I only added brightness and contrast (something any basic photo program has). Of course the insets are another magic, but that's not the point.

Handheld, too. The Image Stabilization (IS) system must be good on this.

Point made: It does NOT take a high dollar camera to take good photos. :thumbup:

Coop
 
Coop - that is way cool! And I totally agree. It is incredible that such technology is available, affordable and easy to carry. And with that little Canon you'll have a lot of nice kid and family pictures to look at when you're old. I've heard some hard-core guy photographers lament (and their wives complain) about the lack of family, people, vacation etc. pictures because dad was too lazy to get out the big rig and/or too proud to be seen with anything but the top of the line gear. Good on ya, man!

Lighting - I've started using both my flashes with both of my soft-box lights and have been amazed with the results. I'd never bothered because I figured the light from the flashes would be tough to control and create a bunch of hot spots. The thing is, at least with Cannon's 580 series main flash and a 550 slave, the camera evaluates the lighting from the soft boxes and automatically regulates the flash output. I sure like the results. Too bad it took me so long to figure it out!

Happy shooting! BTW, this is a great thread - very generous of you to share your knowledge and your images in this way. :thumbup:
 
Hey, that's my camera! Thanks for making me feel like a complete genius Coop. ;) The image stabilization is great - some of the hand-held shots I have taken of my watches have been unbelievably sharp.

Roger
 
Yes. No RAW format supported. Not a drawback for me.

Coop
 
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