What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

[Matt_WY]

Saw this posted on another site. Silver looks great. Sounds like a very small run of 10. Anyone hear what the story is on these?

 

[IJD]

The six 2021 single spear TCs including a 1 of 16 hammered. My never ending thanks to waynorth Charlie Campagna and GEC for making such great knives. Hope you enjoy the pics!

That's pretty amazing, congrats on the set!

 

[Viper84]

Despite winter storm Orlena hitting NYC hard, Im not leaving this 15 run empty handed

stay golden GEC

Makes me want to go to Las Vegas.

 

[mcc850]

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Saw this posted on another site. Silver looks great. Sounds like a very small run of 10. Anyone hear what the story is on these?

Sheesh. How would one aquire an 1 of 10? Gotta have the fastest internet of all time?

 

[Viper84]

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Saw this posted on another site. Silver looks great. Sounds like a very small run of 10. Anyone hear what the story is on these?

Looks photoshopped

 

[Fixall]

Looks photoshopped

That was my first thought, lol. It looks like a glitter or rose gold barlow with a monochrome filter. The font style of the cap does match though, although it's larger than the font on my barlows from this run.

 

[sf fanatic]

Looks photoshopped

Wow, how did they do that? I’m a Luddite so it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around it. I guess not everything is as good as gold.

 

[solphilos]

Wow, how did they do that? I’m a Luddite so it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around it. I guess not everything is a good as gold.

It is, the monochrome pins are the dead giveaway

 

[JTB_5]

Instead of the no bullsh*t tube cap sticker GEC should make a no trolling tube cap sticker (or a Rick Rolling tube cap sticker!)

 

[solphilos]

That was my first thought, lol. It looks like a glitter or rose gold barlow with a monochrome filter. The font style of the cap does match though, although it's larger than the font on my barlows from this run.

Yep, look at those pins. Also the stamp is suspiciously dark.

 

[Fixall]

Wow, how did they do that? I’m a Luddite so it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around it. I guess not everything is a good as gold.

Place a Rose Gold or Glitter Gold barlow on a solid colored, high contrast background and take a picture. Use the Magic Wand in Photoshop to cut out just the knife from the picture. Create two layers in Photoshop, one with a picture of the tube and cap, and a second with picture of the knife you just cut out. Easy enough to print out a new cap sticker. Done deal.

 

[Matt_WY]

People must have too much time on their hands. Too bad, silver glitter would have been cool.

 

[waynorth]

Looks photoshopped

Agreed!! Pretty clever!! Good work!!

 

[mrknife]

i have been trying to convince bill to do a TC barlow in sterling

 

[Chief]

Definite 100% photoshopped. Opened the image in Photoshop CS and looked closely at the silver portion. Every pixel (dot) in a jpg image is represented by three bytes, one red, one green, one blue in the 0-255 range. In the silver portion, all the pixels are perfectly gray, for example the three bytes all are the exact same number for hundreds of pixels, 33, 33, 33 or 67, 67, 67 and 122,122,122, this is impossible in the real world as even ambient light isn't that uniform. The only way this can be done is a black / white filter or a complete desaturation. A few pixels along the edge still have the gold color. The author did a good job tho!

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[SDknifeguy]

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Saw this posted on another site. Silver looks great. Sounds like a very small run of 10. Anyone hear what the story is on these?

Idk but they need to make one now!

 

[Mike Robuck]

Idk but they need to make one now!

I can spray paint my sepia TC barlow silver if you are interested. Of course, there will be a 10-fold price increase for such a rare GEC knife.

 

[Jack Black]

The author did a good job tho!

Worth saving for April 1st!

 

[mrknife]

I always thought that was the fun of the glitter gold