Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Christmas 2015 ornaments
JamieDonaldson
I don't post here very often, but am just finishing presents for family and friends, no more pens this year! 
Woods are Bocote, Bloodwood, Tulipwood, Purpleheart, and Padauk. All are hollowed, and "finials" are Maple because I didn't have enough Holly to go around. 
These cell phone cameras are pretty dang amazing!
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David Walser
Very nice, Jamie. I'm sure everyone will appreciate the gift and will hang their ornament on the tree for many Christmas's to come.
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Barry L Elder
Those ornaments are pretty dang amazing, too! Merry Christmas, Jamie!
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john lucas
Wonderful Jamie. I am way behind on making anything for Christmas. I just got the workshop up and running but still have things that need to be done that will get in the way of making gifts.
Maybe I haven't had a good phone but I haven't taken a single photo with any of my phones that even begins to match what my lower end Nikon digital will do. They are good as a record keeping device but at least mine just won't take a decent photo.
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John K Jordan
>Maybe I haven't had a good phone
John L, What kind of phone? I have had very good luck with the cameras on my last two phones, a Motorola Droid X and Droid Razr. This sounds crazy, but a llama journal used one of my photos for a cover. It wasn't full bleed but still...
My wife uses an iPhone and photos from it always look worse to me, both in sharpness and contrast. Maybe the lens needs cleaning - it wouldn't take much of a spot to degrade such a tiny lens.
Speaking of llamas and photos, two of mine are got in the spotlight last night - a charity used them in a TV commercial shoot. Can't wait for the royalties to start rolling in.
And Jamie, nice box full of ornaments! That looks like a huge amount of work. I especially like the bocote. I'm only up to 5 so far this year.
JKJ
Interesting that you mention cleaning.......
JamieDonaldson
....off the lens on a cell camera. I'm grossed out by the crud that I often see on the lenses of cell camera shooters! The layers of fingerprints work to degrade images worse than plastic lenses!
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Josh Bowman
Jamie,
Slap that picture on a homemade Christmas card and you have a winner. I like it. Since it's off of the phone, not certain how much you can enlarge it, but it'd make a nice framed picture as well. Thanks for posting it.
