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1.4mm cord two-peg spool knit lanyard shown with a Swiss Army Knife. Can also serve as a pocket watch fob, edc keychain or wallet lanyard, or multitool retention and whatnot...
Played a little with different ways to take macro shots without a macro lens.
Now trying my phone - phones are usually good from close up, producing decently sharp (albeit not extreme) macros. This little knife is even older than my long-suffering acoustic, I've had it since the company 100-year anniversary in the mid-80s. It's been around the world quite a bit and seen a lot...
(See the adjacent uploads for the story of this exercise)
Preparation--printed a PPT and cut the pages in two with my trusty Swiss Army knife. As always, Coke Zero and Ziplocs lying around.
I needed to put a new lead in my Pilot pencil. The old lead needs to be poked out and Pilot supply a thin wire to do this, attached to the eraser housed at the end of the pencil. The eraser was worn down so I eased the clip, moved it up and crimped the clip again. My Swiss Army Champ was just the tool I needed.
The Swiss Arms Control colonel who gave me this knife stated it is the genuine Swiss Army knife which is issued to soldiers
In my pocket for Wenger Wednesday, a black scaled Traveler model with blade lock.
I bought this one off ebay a couple of years ago. It was a used and slightly abused with bent main blade and awl tips, but has plenty of life left in it so it gets a place in the edc rotation.
The Wenger scissors have disappointed me with their cord cutting (paracord), but the other implements work well enough...
Paracord toggle knot (ABoK #615) lanyard/fob added to the knife's keyring attachment, along with a small keychain/keyring LED flashlight.
Blog post link for more info on the toggle knot: stormdrane.blogspot.com/2016/03/paracord-toggle-knot-lany...
Approved poster for Thao & the Get Down Stay Down / Seratones at The Fillmore, SF, CA.
©2016 The Fillmore Corporation F1412.
Thao is such a multi-instrumentalist so the Swiss army reference seemed fitting. I also liked how the Swiss cross nicely doubles as the ampersand in the band name.
This was originally designed to print in 3 colors, but in the end, we felt there would be a bit more control in the faux overprinting with a CMYK run.
13" x 19" on uncoated stock.
It was a rainy, windy fall day, when this walnut scaled Huntsman Swiss Army Knife beckoned me to the basement with my camera, and I just felt a bit adventurous. So I took some chances with about the least obvious lens choice for the task at hand. I'm pretty pleased with the end result.
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I cannot show a photo of my trusty Swiss Army Knife, I had it last Tuesday but I didn't have it on Wednesday morning. I've enquired at the places I went that afternoon and evening but to no avail. My son bought it for me for Christmas ten years ago. When I chipped one of the scales nebulon9 sent a replacement from California. I have a couple of spare knives but they aren't as good as the one I've mislaid, I am sad :(
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the lost/and/or/found group today at the suggestion of The Lady Loon.
Stuck for an idea for your daily 365 shot? Try the hereios of the We're Here! group for inspiration :)
Slickensides (horizontal striations) on a minor fault in the Mecca Hills, Riverside County, California. Below pocket knife is a dark smeared rock clast that indicates this is a fault with left-lateral slip. That is, the surface we see in this view is on the 'other' side of a fault (the fault and closer side are eroded away) shows that the dark rock clast moved to the left relative to our view. Exposed about 6 km (3 1/2 mi) northeast of the San Andreas fault.
New Year's Eve 2013 - L'Avenir Cabernet Sauvignon 2002, by my wine maker friend, Francois Naude. Drinking beautifully :-) Francois and I used to work together at the Waterkloof Pharmacy in Pretoria and shared a passion for Formula One and fast cars. The old Swiss Army Knife has come a long way with me. It survived my two years' national service in the South African Defence Force (including a year or so in the "operational area" and subsequent "camps"). It then served me well over seven years of hard labour at the University of Pretoria, followed by two decades in Europe. A true survivor that's been through many adventures with me, including a couple of significant motor accidents in the old Transvaal back in the 80's.
I loved these chocolate covered Fry's Turkish delight bars and used to buy one with my pocket money when I was a boy. Sweets were on ration until February 1953 when I was ten. I think they cost fourpence in the old money. I bought a pack of three bars in Tesco for £1 recently. That's twenty times the price, which is just about the general rate of inflation.
First guns, and now knives. I'm such a bad influence! Here's one of the miscreants tagging one of my trees - rural style.
Tube que aplastar con un libro psado para que se aplastara bien y plegarlo y desarmarlo porque enrede un paso, en general un modelo bueno.
The odds are pretty good that the answer to that question includes this Victorinox Swiss Army knife. I've been carrying around some small utility knife in my pocket since I was a kid (back when a kid carrying a pocketknife wasn't cause for immediate expulsion from school), and this is the current knife in that tradition. This one is probably 5 or 6 years old now, and is still in pretty good shape, scratches and pocket lint aside.
This became tonight's experiment, since the only other shot I got earlier today that I liked was a cooking shot, and I'm still trying to limit those to a minimum in my 365. Figured I'd experiment a little bit more with low-key lighting and my flash trigger, and the pocketknife seemed like a reasonable thing to play with.
Took this in my dining room, with the lights on. Dialed in Æ’/16, and then cut the exposure time down until I had an all-black frame. Setup the camera on my tripod with the cable release. Using a Cactus V4 wireless trigger on my ancient SunPak 433AF, which was fitted with a 1/8" honeycomb grid, set the flash on 1/16th power about a foot away, aiming at the knife pretty much in line with the body of the knife (to avoid super-bright reflections from the blades.) "Chimped" the exposure time a bit more (yes, I've started reading Strobist) to get the lighting right where I wanted it.
Final settings:
Nikon D7000, Nikkor 18-200 lens @ 70mm, 1/60s at Æ’/16, ISO100.
Flash to the rear of the subject, camera right, 1/16th power, through a 1/8" honeycomb grid.
Cropped this a bit in Aperture, along with some boosts to vibrance (and touching up a small hair I missed on the table… d'oh!)
During which time I lost my first Swiss Army Knife!
from Nov 1984
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A more recent Tanker, from Gungahlin RFS. instagram.com/p/tKJML6AkXV/
#ruralfirebrigade
The day I lost my first #SAKedc while running along to take a shot..
see image below!
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Set of camping equipment graphics and icons.
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I've been helping to put out the books at St Mary's Church Southgate Crawley prior to the book sale tomorrow. I'm just trimming a cardboard box to size.
The handy penknife strikes again :)
An example of a single strand paracord lanyard with a water bowline at one end and a fisherman's bend at the carabiner end. stormdrane.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-few-bowline-knots.html
I was watching an episode of Columbo – A Trace of Murder on tv and saw the murderer use a Swiss Army Knife to snip the end off a cigar. One doesn't often see a SAK in use on tv so I thought I'd take a photo 😀
More info in my blog post stormdrane.blogspot.com/2016/05/lazy-sunday-in-may.html
I uploaded two photos showing both sides of the knot, which look the same. I finish the ends of the paracord by pulling out about 1/4" worth of the inner strands, trim those with scissors, pull the outer sheath back down, then a quick heating/melting of each end with my lighter and crimping flat with my hemostats.
I have been given two copies of my granddaughters' school photographs so I've bought two new frames to display them in. The screwdriver/bottle-opener blade on my trusty Swiss Army Knife comes in handy to push the metal tags into place.
The snake decoration on my ruler is a cross-stitch made by my wife; I used it at school so I engraved my name on the end.
Using an Xacto knife, and hobby files, I modded my SAK's scale to include a slot for adding the pen. In prevous attempts to remove the scale I damaged it, and now use poster putty to ensure the scale's hold.
Given the chance, I'd have rather bought a "Plus" scale for the knife, but I wanted to get the pen installed before I had the chance
Using an Xacto knife, and hobby files, I modded my SAK's scale to include a slot for adding the pen. In prevous attempts to remove the scale I damaged it, and now use poster putty to ensure the scale's hold.
Given the chance, I'd have rather bought a "Plus" scale for the knife, but I wanted to get the pen installed before I had the chance
I have a couple weeks off coming up and I plan a little bit of beer and a lotta-bit of music.
I’ll probably be on my Fender Stratocaster and one of my Carvin California CT6 guitars mostly. So to prepare for the music fest I’m going through the process of cleaning, changing strings, and all that fun stuff.
I have a shopping list with all the things I buy in the in order in the supermarket (I rarely have to change it). I add things from time to time. I put a pencil mark against the things I need. As you see the old list has got very worn so I'm starting on a fresh photocopy. A4 is a little too large so I'm trimming it down – using my handy penknife of course.