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These Have Cojones

Medicine (Med) Balls are an excellent compliment and change up to your workouts. There are few exercises as cathartic as med ball slams. The Garage Gym Store’s Med Balls are made to take any abuse you can dish out. Wall ball, wall slams, floor slams, or partner toss the Garage Gym Store Med Balls will [...]

Because All Your Notes Are

Let everyone know what sort of things you’re jotting down with this reporter style letterpress notepad. It has 40 pages and recycled Kraft board covers, all held together with metal screw posts. Measuring 7.25″x3.5″ its a good pocket size way to keep your thoughts in order. For those of you looking to customize it, the [...]

The Man Behind Horween Leather's Resurgence

Horween Leather has been around since 1905 and is located in Chicago, IL. They produce leathers for a myriad of uses and companies. Their offerings run the gamut from all the NFL and NBA game balls, to those Shell Cordovan Allen Edmonds you wish you had (Shell leather accounts for only 10% of Horween’s production). [...]

Handmade Comfort

A good pair of mocs are a great footwear option for the approaching warmer months. One pair to put on your list are the Town View Double-soled Canoe Moccasins ($90) made by the husband and wife team of Galen and Gayanne Wintle, located in Dexter, Maine. Each pair of their Double Sole Mocs actually offer [...]

Dark Knight Approved

By now, you probably know that we’re proponents of a good pocket knife here at Gear Patrol. Such a knife a handy everyday tool that every man should have. For those of you looking for something a little more refined or just smaller than a Benchmade or SOG, we present the Alden Shell Cordovan Case [...]

When a convicted robber escapes from prison and kills a cop, rogue detective Jack Cates decides to parole the robber’s old cell partner in crime, Reggie Hammond, for two days (48 hours) to help him solve the case. Starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy when they were both solid actors who weren’t bat-shit crazy, 48 [...]

Precision (Wood) Engineering

They may be made for kids, but Automoblox look good enough to go on your desk while satiating the 5 year old psyche that still dwells inside of you. Precision engineered from wood, plastic, and steel, each Automoblox is fully modular allowing you to mix and match between models and build your own unique configurations. [...]

If it so happens you haven’t watched this movie (and its five sequels, likely on TNT) a dozen times, we’ll give you the quick run down. Rocky Balboa, a debt collector for a Philly loan shark and amateur boxer, gets a shot at the title when the challenger drops out with a broken hand. He [...]

A Classic Vintage

Etsy is a veritable treasure trove when it comes to finding unique items. There’s definitely some crap on there, but the gems are worth the search. Recently, while searching around the site, we stumbled onto The Emperor Seat from Etsy seller StilNovo Design. A stool-style seat, it’s constructed from reclaimed oak sources from French wine [...]

Simple Done Superbly

Eric Heins takes his quality seriously. It just so happens that we appreciate that immensely. In fact, the about page at Corter Leather is a list of everything you could want put into your leather goods. Punched, sewn, carved, dyed, oiled, sealed, and riveted – all by the hand of Eric (and all in Beantown, [...]

Before Stifler’s Mom there was Mrs. Robinson, the original MILF. Centered around recent college grad Ben Braddock, played by a young(er) Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate follows Ben as he returns home and after college and attempts to figure out what’s next. Quickly he finds himself the boy toy of Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his [...]

Result: The Handshake To End All Handshakes

Named after pirate Captain “Bone Crusher” Roberts, Bone Crusher Grips are made to give you grip strength that will make your adversaries shiver their timbers. Ranging from 100lbs to 500lbs in grip resistance, you can slowly build up your grip strength and forearms. A better grip will improve your performance in the gym immensely, because [...]

Man’s best friend doesn’t get a lot of attention from a gear perspective here on Gear Patrol, we’re aware and we’re hoping to change that. Our first step is bring the Chuckit! Launcher to your attention. The Chuckit! is a plastic tennis ball launcher made to let you keep your hands slobber free, throw the [...]

Shocking as it may seem, there was a time when Matthew Broderick was not married to John Kerry masquerading as a woman. During that time he made some solid movies and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is most certainly one of the best. The iconic Ferris Bueller is a senior in high school outside of Chicago [...]

Further Proof There May Be Reason For Custom Rolexes

Based on a Rolex Submariner LV, Project X Designs heavily modified it to be what amounts to an authentic homage to the esteemed Sub Ref 6538. For those of you not geeked out by Subs, the 6538 is the model Sub that Sean Connery wore as James Bond, and one of the most sought after [...]