My efforts at continued long format ramblings about cutlery are nominally funded by chumps debonair and interesting people just like you via Patreon and/or Ko-Fi.

I also sell my own knives now, for acceptably small values of “knife” for some models, at flightlessforge.com.

Bonus stump photo:

Double bonus photography aside, which I am attaching as a side comment because I’ll never get a chance to talk about this anywhere else.

As I’ve alluded to many times before, almost every picture I post is focus stacked because at the types of inches-to-the-lens distances I work with it’s functionally impossible to get all of something in focus.

One fun aspect of this is that you can actually control your final depth of field in postprocessing, which sounds like one of those things that ought to be impossible, and/or was the promise all those guys trying to sell light field cameras made a decade or two ago which never quite materialized.

Each of these pictures is actually a stack of 50 exposures, from which I discarded various distance ranges since that hipster bokeh effect is all the range these days. You can decide which one of these you think looks best:

Everything in focus, or…

…Everything up to the subject including the foreground, or…

…Only the subject itself.