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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

Inside FRET12, the Chicago shop turning rock ’n’ roll culture into clothes, art, live sessions, beer, and more.

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

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

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

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What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

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

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop

For the beach, the lake, the trail, and wherever you like disappearing to on summer weekends.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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Wild Turkey’s New ‘Cheesy Gold Foil’ Release Is a Tribute To a Collector’s Classic

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8 Food Shows Actually Worth Watching

Here at Cool Material, we’re huge fans of the culinary arts, and it definitely shows in the material we cover. We’ve done stories on some of our favorite cookbooks, roundups of the world’s best kitchen tools… Hell, we even put out a whole story about cast-iron skillets. We love food, we…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Discover the World’s Best Small-Batch Hot Sauces With Fuego Box

Your local grocery store stocks the same half-dozen hot sauces that every other grocery store stocks. It's a taste bud buzzkill. If you crave flavor, heat, and variety, you need a better option. Fuego Box is a hot sauce of the month club that sends you some of the most…

By Mike Newman
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Gear
Solid Brass Fire Kit

It was way back in 2013 when Fort Standard built an all brass fire kit concept. That concept was known as “Life Is Precious,” and it was a marriage of functionality and beautiful design that was met with overwhelming fanfare. That fanfare encouraged the brand to make an actual, purchasable…

By Mike Newman
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St Brooklyn Motorcycles ‘L’Etonnante’

Depending on which translation service you ask, this absolutely gorgeous custom BMW bike from St Brooklyn Motorcycles dubbed "L'Etonnante" is "The Amazing," "The Surprising," or "The Astonishing." After seeing the bike we're inclined to agree with all of them. What started as a 1955 BMW Sprint Racer was built over…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Metal Skull Microphones

In this age of podcasting, everyone should have access to a high quality microphone. Not only that, but it should be something customized to recorder's tastes. If those tastes are the straightforward microphones we've been using forever, that's fine. But also know you could be podcasting into the back of…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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