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Modular product solutions are great. You get to take a bunch of things designed to work together and play around with them until you have a finished product that works and looks exactly like you [...]

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We’re big fans of anything that involves adrenaline, horsepower, gunpowder or high speeds. Anything that used to be considered “manly” (we live in modern times and women love this stuff just as much as guys [...]

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When you think about manly clothing accessories, the apron is probably not the first thing that comes to mind, but it should be. If there was any company that could make the manliest of them [...]

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Traveling with a laptop isn't fun, or convenient or anything less than a complete pain in the ass, but it's also necessary in the age where you better be able to send a TPS report [...]

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Fire is awesome. It's one of the most significant discoveries in all of human history and the ability to create it on demand makes life a whole helluva lot better. It's a survival skill, a [...]

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At first glance, the Epperson Mountaineering Climb Pack looks like every menswear trend from the last year got thrown up into bag form. It's got camo and bright color accents and, somehow, it just works. [...]

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Every kid dreamt of being in a rock band, but very few dreamt of being the bassist. It was always the instrument you got relegated to; a few notches above the triangle. We will say [...]

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Unless you’re a cop, chances are you aren’t carrying around a piece everyday. Still, hearing the sound of some shells dropping when we’re at the range or watching a movie, ignites the Boondock Saint [...]

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Well that settles it, we're going to Russia. After realizing we could go for some normal vodka after writing this, now we've come across this awesome sheet of [...]

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No, Best Made did not spell the name of the bag that Puff Daddy's umbrella-totting assistant carries around wrong. Ditty bags were originally made by apprentice sailmakers to prove they were worthy of crafting a [...]

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Now that 4/20 has passed, that little pothead in your life may be feeling a bit down. The bong won't be broken out with such fanfare for another year, and all that dirty water has begun [...]

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Using a classic Zippo lighter will always be a sophisticated and stylish choice. With anything so iconic, however, there is little in the way of personality when you opt to join the clan of users. [...]

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Owning more than a couple of axes is just weird. A couple and you're fine, but like a dozen, and you can forget about anyone assuming you're not a serial murderer. This presents a problem [...]

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Deciding between a messenger bag and a backpack is a decision every guy is going to have to make at some point in his life. For many of us it's subconscious, we mess around with both after we're [...]

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When we travel, we don't usually throw our laptop in the same plastic bag as our open toothpaste tube and bottle of aftershave. Toiletries and electronics have always occupied two different realms of our weekender bag when [...]

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