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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
By Beau Hayhoe
This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000 This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000
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This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000

The $800 Nodus Sector Deep Damascus combines 500-meter dive credentials with a one-of-a-kind Damascus steel bezel.

By Amos Kwon
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
The Cool Shop The Cool Shop
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The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

By Lanny Fuller
Drinks
Drinique Knuckle Bottle Opener

Combining brass knuckles and a bottle opener is either a recipe for pure excellence or absolute destruction. Unfortunately, because they're "technically" a deadly weapon opening a beer with that dude's face probably isn't going to fly with the cops. But in the event that it does happen (we're not pointing…

By Cooper Fleishman
Drinique Knuckle Bottle Opener
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Husqvarna 355Fx

Husqvarna--a power tool company that has recently won awards for design, quality, and effectiveness against zombies--has just released the 355Fx, a massive saw device used for "forestry clearing".  Think about that for a second.  This thing actually clears forests.  Not weeds, forests.   We'd usually chalk that kind of talk up to…

By Wylie Overstreet
Husqvarna 355Fx
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Spyderco byrdRench

MacGuyver. James Bond. Jack Bauer. All men defined by their ability to get shit done without the proper tools in situations most of us would never want to be in. If these men carried the byrdRench from Spyderco their tv shows, movies, and escapades (outside of the sheets) wouldn't have…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Drinks
World’s Smallest Corkscrew

There are dozens of clever solutions to opening a bottle of beer when you have no bottle opener: the edge of a table, a lighter, and if you're desperate, your teeth.  But opening a bottle of wine is a different story--you need a corkscrew, and corkscrews don't exactly fit on…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Food
The Sportula

For men, there is little - if anything - more important than the sacred art of preparing meat by way of fire. Your badass barbecue may be charcoal or natural gas or propane but you learned how to cook with tinder so that's less important than the rules. The woman…

By Cooper Fleishman
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