WILL Leather Goods is a small, Oregon based company that have made such a huge impact with their specific brand of bags and carry alls that they’re now stocked by Nordstrom’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Barneys New York.
This Havana Leather Notebook is designed to be easily refillable with perforated sheet paper, the cover is leather tanned in the L’Aveyron region of France and brass rivets old the spine together.
The Mason Jar Speaker & Amplifier is the sort of mini-stereo that’d find a comfortable home in the garage, backyard shed or as an addition to your camping rucksack.
The new Café Racer series of watches by ContaTempo Scuderia are designed to be worn as either wristwatches or around the neck on a lanyard as a stop watch – this strikes me as being quite clever.
The thodio iBox XC is probably the closest anyone has yet come to making a perfect, portable summer stereo – that doesn’t look like a mass-produced piece of plastic.
This pair of two-tone acetate glasses by Cutler and Gross have a solid, understated appeal and it’s easy to image that they could be worn by a writer, a rocket scientist or a small town mechanic and still look perfectly suitable.
This tee, dubbed “The Swede”, is the newest design off the press at Dodge & Burn. It features a Hasselblad SWC camera fitted with a super-wide 38mm Zeiss Biogon lens and it’s printed on premium white 100% fine jersey ring-spun cotton.
The pocket knife you see here is made using high-grade Swedish rose stainless damascus steel coupled with carbon fibre in the handle. Each knife is 6 7/8″ open and 4 1/8″ folded, they’re made in France and they’ll make a hell of a cool family heirloom.
Vanson Leathers and Iron & Resin are two companies with a lot in common. They’re both American through and through, they both spend a lot of time working with leather and they both do everything by hand, in the USA.
The nanoSTRIKER™ is a keychain sized fire starter designed to be carried every day without getting in your way. It contains a ferrocerium rod and a tungsten carbide insert to create a shower of sparks each time it’s scraped.
This beautifully constructed pewter cocktail shaker is reminiscent of the era before, during and just after the Prohibition. It isn’t widely known that pewter is actually an alloy, it’s a mixture of 85% to 99% tin, with added copper, antimony and bismuth.
This clip-on multi-tool from Leatherman is slightly smaller and more pocket friendly than some of the company’s larger tools, it’s designed to be clipped to a belt loop or rucksack and forgotten about – until you find yourself needing a knife, scissors, a file, tweezers or something to throw at a bear while you run for the hills.
