Black and white photography is, in some respects, a lost art form. The move away from film to digital and the requisite fixed colour sensor has meant that true black and white photographs are a thing of the past, well perhaps they were till now.
Grain Surfboards build stunningly beautiful boards from locally sourced white cedar, they offer “ready to surf” boards as well as kits for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer…
I love mechanical timepieces, usually we see them being wristwatch based with the occasional pocket watch thrown in for good measure, but what about the old fashioned Desktop Flip Clock?
The Rimfire Glove is part of Icon’s new Icon 1000 collection, the glove uses technologically advanced D3O® knuckle armour and an array of convex rivets on the palm to protect your hands from road rash.
The Hammer Screwdriver Combination Tool is one of those things we all need around the house, it includes a hammer, claw, 2 phillips and 2 flat-head screw drivers that all screw into the handle when not being used.
The Schott NYC brand has been around seemingly forever, their most recent line is called “Perfecto” having been named after their most famous jacket design.
Thunderball is one of the better Bond films, the financials agree with me on this as well. It earned $141 million at the box office and if you adjust for inflation, it’s still the highest grossing Bond film ever released.
The humble work shirt has survived many iterations over the years, today its far more common for the term to refer to a white collar shirt, however it used to describe shirts worn by blue collar workers.
Raen is a smaller company, focussing on handmade sunglasses for the American market. Their Lenox sunglasses are all made by hand one at a time from 100% Pulp Acetate and have polarised lenses, just the thing for summer.
First created in 1929 by Gaspard Cognet the Douk-Douk knife is still made by M.C. Cognet in France using the same, time tested methods. Each blade is handmade from high-carbon steel and both handle and blade features a beautiful series of engravings that are a story unto themselves.
Billykirk creates some of the finest handmade leather gear you’ll find anywhere, this is their No. 109 belt and it features a nickel-silver buckle with hand-oiled and edged 3/4.” leather. All Billykirk products are handmade in the USA and are famous for looking better as they get older, if only that were true for all of us.
Oak Street Bootmakers is a small company that makes the kind of boots our grandfathers wore, by hand, one at a time. Founder and designer George Vlagos apprenticed in his father’s shoemaking company as a child and founded Oak Street as a way to keep the old methods alive for another generation.
