Thread: Big, for a Bug

She's a beauty!

I want a Gold Bug so bad.

Reaaal nice!

Originally Posted by Hawkeye5

Great blade!! Where in the world did you find her?

I think all I've ever seen are 5/8ths or smaller Gold Bugs.

Thanks! Found it on eBay. The pictures were small and blurry, but the seller was very sincere and helpful. I thought "that can't be a Gold Bug," but she assured me it was. When I think Gold Bug, I think of clear dark amber scales, fancy inlays and bolsters. Other than the gold wash this one is very plain, I think it may be a later model or variant or something. I like it though!

The edge has some deterioration from age when looked at under magnification, so it's taking a little effort to hone. And the scales are *really* loose at the pivot point for the last 45 degrees to closure, but nice and tight fully opened. I could use some ideas on how to fix this, I may ask over in the Workshop.

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

A true beauty - congratulations!

You might find Category:Photography - Straight Razor Place Wiki helpful.

Thanks for the link, I could use the help! I use a Nikon Coolpix L12, and it seems to automatically over-compensate for bright light, when I don't want it to. I guess I need to break down and get a more manually adjustable camera, because I really enjoy looking at the pictures I see posted on this forum that are done well. I tried a bunch of different settings using the Coolpix with my homemade light box, but no success, all yellowed. The iPhoto editor on my Mac just washes it out when I try to adjust the yellow out.

Are you using daylight bulbs in your lightbox fixtures?Regular incandescent bulbs always look yellow when photographed.Even soft white bulbs.

Originally Posted by aroliver59

Are you using daylight bulbs in your lightbox fixtures?Regular incandescent bulbs always look yellow when photographed.Even soft white bulbs.

I think so. I'm using two GE Crystal Clear 150W, one on each side, nothing on top. The bulbs are clear. I started out with 60W soft white, and that got me nowhere. Maybe 150W clear is too much in the other direction.

I just read the Wiki about picture taking, and it has good info about f-stop settings and backing off on the distance and using optical zoom. The Coolpix doesn't really have a specific f-stop setting, and has an f-stop range only down to a low of 2.7. But it does have a white preset feature, which I used for this shot. It's not ideal but it's an improvement, and at least captures the basic colors of the razor and little coticule pretty accurately after some adjustment with iPhoto: