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I bought this for my girlfriend. She has a cheaply made Chinese "Swiss Army" style knife and I figured I would get her a genuine one. I made sure to get one with a corkscrew. Made in Switzerland.

I'm using a 2023 diary as a gobo* to block the light falling on my Swiss Army Knife.

The Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Fun Words today.

*Gobo: For studio photography purposes, the term "gobo" has come to refer to any device that casts a shadow

The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the Found Text group today.

I tried to remove the bar code sticker, but found it too difficult.

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Here knot, there knot, everywhere a knot knot.... :)

I've put out the contents of my trouser pockets copying the photo I took on 31 October 2013.

Left front pocket: purse (with coins, pencil and memory stick), knife, keys, handkerchief

Right front pocket: iPhone 8 plus

Right back pocket: wallet & paper hankies

Left back pocket: Pocket Filofax with pen

Who says that cameras can´t be pimped?

The Polaroid Film (779 for those who care) renders the slightly darker Swiss-Army-Knife-red in a just as appealing calf-skin brown.

Electrical work. If anything is amiss, her hair will stand on end... or start to smolder.

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Recently my toilet cistern has been refilling very slowly. I could call a plumber as I have cover for such things but I decided to investigate myself. This could have proved a mistake as my level of expertise in such matters is minimal. However, it proved to be a very simple job which I completed with the help of my handy Swiss Army Knife 😜

I'm refilling the salt grinder with coarse sea salt. The hole in the lid of the carton of salt isn't really big enough to pour the salt out so I prised the lid off with my Swiss Army Knife.

This photograph, which comes to you by courtesy of the letter S, is my nineteenth picture for the February Alphabet Fun: 2020 group.

This Swiss Army Knife is creating an "eggistential" threat to this unsuspecting hardboiled egg.

My new Victorinox Alox Classic Swiss Army Knife. The silver alox (aluminum oxide) scales with the red shield are gorgeous.

The continuing story of the Papermate ballpoint pens, part 3 (new readers can see part 1 here and part 2 here) Unable to get the oversize spring out of the pen I thought I'd make the refill a bit fatter. A nice little washer would have been good but failing that I wrapped several layers of translucent non-shrinking adhesive tape round the refill – and it works. So now I have three working Papermate ballpoint pens and a substantial supply of refills.

But it failed, overnight the pressure of the spring pushed the final piece of adhesive tape away and the refill slipped down. 😟

On to part 4.

The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the I hold in my hand group today.

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Strobist info: One bare SB-28 at 1/64th just above water pointing straight down. The glass container reflects the light around acting like a fill.

After another seen on Flickr .. Liam Noble, see below…

Pocket dump picture with Victorinox Swiss Army Knife with custom titanium scales from Daily Customs with raindrop pattern, Wanger/Doering titanium Minipen, Willow Craft Goods Utilis wallet, Douglass Neo 3 brass lighter, Hanksbyhank

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Made in Switzerland.

The Alpen packets are rather hard to tear open but the scissors on my Swiss Army Knife do the job easily.

I was having breakfast at a restaurant with two friends, both men of about my age, and neither of them carried a pocket knife … how strange I thought.

The Saturday Self-Challenge group has chosen Sharp for today's theme.

My semi-bionic arm. An implanted hydraulic system extends the selected tool to my fingertips for easy use. This surgical implant came in handy while camping.

I was always borrowing the little tweezers from my husband's knife for fiddly jobs. Then it occurred to me that Amazon might provide a better solution.

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Biscuits at Crawley Camera Club - when the packet is hard to open my Swiss Army Knife comes into its own :)

The postman has just brought this package, it's a book The Sisters: Alsace-Lorraine by Bernard Newman. It describes a cycle tour he made there in 1949.

I came home this morning and noticed that one of the screws that hold the handle of my inner porch door was standing out a little. I quickly screwed it in with my handy Swiss Army Knife 😀

There's more than one way to crack an egg!

A Swiss Army Knife … and a "Swiss Navy Knife", the latter is a cheap Chinese copy

Although I have been hefting my life around in this bag for a couple of years now, I realised that I hadn't done one of these shots for it yet.

So today I have.

Note, of course, that things like keys, credit card and most of my money are carried in my pockets. It's a bloke thing :-)

The bag itself is a Czechoslovakian Army bread-bag I got from an online military surplus supplier.

The self-portrait is so easy to spot that I won't point it out. It also includes my camera which is, of course, part of the bag contents.

A year ago today I was looking at your house.

Taken for the "What Do You Want?" pool. These are some of the things in my pockets. I am notorious for carrying way too many things with me all the time. I somehow feel these items make up who I am in aggregate.

Missing from this picture:

Car keys

Work keys

Billfold

The rest of my insulin kit

Spare change

Cell phone

and often my camera

See notes for more info on each item.

Taken by Cory Funk.

This photograph comes to you by courtesy of the letter E

Today is the fifth day of February Alphabet Fun: 2015.

(With Edged Tools is the title of a book by Henry Merriman which my father had in his bookcase. I never read it but the title has stayed with me for more than sixty years. I bought a copy recently on the internet – I still haven't read it. )

My new Victorinox Alox Classic Swiss Army Knife. The silver alox (aluminum oxide) scales with the red shield are gorgeous.

Setup for carrying both my NEX cameras.

Digging through a gadget drawer and found a couple of Pugster Knight beads that I'd bought a couple of years ago.

Tied short paracord round and square crown sinnet fobs/zipper pulls with 'em, in black & camo green, adding one to my pa's black nylon scaled Victorinox Bantam.

I sent away to Amazon for a dozen pairs of stripey socks - less than a pound a pair :)

(Not that I'll be wearing them for a bit – it's so hot!)

I don't know why I started on 'W...ing' words, but I'm fast running out! Anyway, here's another rather easy one, as I was experimenting with the DoF effect, not with hiding the object. I keep this smallish one in my camera backpack.

Scavenge Challenge - Odd views of familiar objects

Lanyard with Orange Alox Rambler SAK(Swiss Army Knife).

Issue 2 of Rucksack magazine. Made a background using old planks I had lying around taken from a dismantled pallet.

A friend of mine gave me a Swiss Army Knife in the 1980s and I still have it. I couldn't find it for a few days (it was moved across the ocean and through two houses, after all) but managed to find it as I was looking at my yet-to-be-finished-to-be-set-up computer. (Now I have an excuse to finish setting up my computer, as well.)

This knife is a bit scuffed and lost its luster but still works just fine (once it gets sharpened a bit).

Victorinox Cadet (orange) and Victorinox Eletrician (silver)

I had a new office chair delivered the other day and, just as I was taking the empty box out today, I noticed that I was not supposed to open it with a Stanley knife – it's OK, I used my trusty Swiss Army Knife 😜

I love these tools! This is my pioneer, one of my favorites.

Day 151 of my 365 project for 2015.

But are these contents genuine, or staged?

I've had a halogen heater just like this for several years (see here) It's very handy. I'm economising by not putting the central heating on as high as it used to be so I'll have this beside me when I have my lunch – the original one is upstairs near my computer.

OK, now tell me that this is a very expensive way to ensure warmth and it's cheaper to turn the central heating up 😳

A new render of my Swiss Army Knife using image-based lighting.

I had a pizza in the restaurant at the Barbican. It was very good and reasonably priced … but the base was pretty tough and the knives were not very sharp so I resorted to my handy Swiss Army Knife :)

Swiss Army knife - or nautical knife, everyman should have one!!

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I only bought a cheap Ukrainian flag and it's got a bit tattered blowing in the wind.