Tools

Where there's muck, there's brass. Plastic muck, and Oceanus Brass, to be specific. The Oceanus Brass Cablelaid is a cordage tool and on-demand recycling companion that breaks down plastic bottle waste into yards and...

Trade in the ax for a Jerax. The Jerax Tools Kindling Cracker doesn't have the same heartwarming story behind it as Ayla Hutchinson's Kindling Cracker, but as a wood-splitting drill bit, rather than an entire apparatus...

You can't slip Zippo's FireFast Bellows into your pocket like this little blow-it fire starter, but then again, the FireFast Bellows isn't for little fires. And as its name suggests, the Zippo brand of flame stoker doesn't...

I heard we're heading into a recession. Know what that means? Yep. Time to start treasure hunting! Last weekend I went to my mama's house, intending to haul out the ol' metal detector just like I did after the Y2K dot-com...

Knuckle duster meets axe. Is that a good idea? Certainly the axe won't fall out of your hand when you use it to chop whatever's on the chopping block today, but again I ask, is that a good idea? All those steel spacers...

If I could have only one fireside friend, would it be Estwing's Special Edition Fireside Friend Axe, or my friend Cornelius? Hmmm, I can't decide. Let's go over the merits of both...

Uberleben's Tindar Wick & Bellow tool sees the company's trademark KeroDry paraffin-wax infused hemp wick spooled through a hollow rod you can detach and use as a micro bellow to stoke your fire once it's started. With...

4 inches of pure power! OK, maybe the Mini Electric Chainsaw is more like 4 inches of maybe medium, like 5/10 power, that makes up for it with a light, 2.8-pound weight, 13" total length, and rechargeable 20v, 2.0Ah battery...

Ready for some adventure, mate? The AM-V2 from Adventure Mate is a 5-in-1 multi-tool ready to help you chop up, shovel up, hook up, hammer down, and saw through the outdoors. But, like, in a nice way...

ACLIM8's COMBAR FoldaXe Pro is a Red Dot Award-winning adventurer's multi-tool that integrates the company's FoldaXe base with the knife and saw from their Pro Kit. Beautiful and compact, this new COMBAR is built to help...

"Go with rrrribbit!, and you'll never say you bit it!" Nah, that's not Ladder Frog's tagline...though for a small thinker upper's fee, I'd be willing to sell it to them...but it is the gist of the company's ladder stabilizing...

When Mother Nature throws darkness, you throw Olight. And when some dude in the park throws shade about your obnoxious flashlight, you...don't even notice because the Warrior X Turbo is throwing a full 1,100 lumens of...

The Zoom Tube Monocular Telescope weighs just 9.5 ounces, so you can pack it up and take it along on any adventure. Non-creepy adventures only, please, peeping toms and stalkers! Sporting events. Hiking and mountaineering...

If soap on a rope is your go-to gift for Dad, mix things up this year with Rapid-Rope. AKA rope in can! The extreme utility rope is a Shark Tank-backed piece of outdoor and survival gear that sees 120 feet of flat-braid...

There aren't many times I'd pick a hand tool over a power tool, but Bushcraft Survival's Scotch Eye Auger is definitely...well...not one of them. My mama makes me do enough manual labor at her house without throwing a...

Become a US Marine Corps hacker, and proudly slash your way through the blackberry bushes in your backyard, with this officially licenced USMC Desert OPS Sawback Machete. Features include a 17-3/10" stainless steel swingin'...

Which would you rather add to your survival kit: paracord, which has myriad uses; or a knuckle duster, which really has only one? Aw, dude, don't ask me that I can't decide! The paracord, the knuckle duster, I just...it's...it's...

Use the Punch Hammer camping multi-tool to pound in tent stakes, shovel up a proper burial plot for your poop, and - oh, hello knuckle duster - pop a grizzly bear in the snout...

The Lever Gear BitVault is both for your bits and your bits 'n' pieces. Beneath its sliding drawer the EDC keychain tool has a segmented chamber that holds hex bits, pills, toothpicks, a bill or two of cash, phone adapters...

World, get ready for your "most versatile flashlight." At least according to EST, who says their Torch L1 Headlamp will suit any illumination requirements you have, from any location you require...

Nessie seems like one of the kinder deadly mythical beasts out there - at least in name, versus succubi, wendigos, and The Bogeyman - but Urban EDC Supply promises their Urban EDC Nessie Knife is "a beast among beasts."...

Not a whole lot that looks safe about this Razor's Edge Safety Ring Knife, but I guess compared to JHO Knives' Nug, this ring knife is almost cuddle ready. Doesn't hurt that it comes in an array of rainbow colors, and...

These tiny 3-inch air horns put big sound in the palm of your hand. And also the breath of your lungs. Operating off of human rather than compressed air, the 3-inch barrels require you to channel your inner boogie-woogie...

Oh no!! It's Uncle Bill!* If anyone under 40 knows what that's a reference to - and, no, it's not Uncle Bill's Sliver Gripper Precision Tweezers - email me for your 80s Trivia Stud trophy...