Men, Buy your own underwear for a change. At least give these guys a shot to get their product to market.

Flint and Tinder is a good step toward bringing manufacturing back to this country.

I’m in for a few pair! How about you?

Flint and Tinder via Kickstarter

-Ryan

P.S. I’m a big fan of kickstarter, I wouldn’t send you there otherwise.

Also  few other options from some research into the subject a few years back: http://usamadeblog.com/2009/01/13/underwear-skivvies-unmentionables-underthings-etc/

Oak Street Bootmakers from Common Machine Prod. on Vimeo.

Handsome mens shoes and boots Designed in Chicago and Handcrafted in America (Maine). Thanks Maine!

GR ECHO is sleek and sexy but just as tough as all GORUCK gear. Stash the essentials and stay organized while moving around town by foot, metro, or car.

The smallest of their packs.

GORUCK

The Art of Manliness is a great blog for all things man. I’m a big fan of and highly recommend the site; they have a contest going on right now, giving away some 1000-mile boots made in the USA by Wolverine.

Normally, USA made shoes are lacking in “style”, Not the case here. I found my next pair of shoes.

Wolverine Shoes via Art of Manliness

I bought some hiking socks from wigwam after doing some reading about the benefits of hiking with a sock designed for hiking.

What a difference it has made. I’ve been on a couple long hikes while wearing the “Cool-Lite Hiker Pro” and they keep my feet dry and blister free. The socks seem to be lightly padded and very well made.

Check out the Wigwam Amazon Store for more Wigwam products that are Made in the USA.

As always, Shop local.

North Star Leather makes some fine leather wallets and many other leather acessories out of their factory in Ruby South Carolina.

I was in need of a new front pocket wallet. I ordered the Leather money clip/card ID pockets.  I had been looking for a wallet for a while now. I’ve seen a couple cheap wallets at the flea market that would do… but I wanted something someone made, here.

The Leather money clip arrived and something was just not right about it… It was built perfect, Everything fit perfect.. but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Finally, I realized it was Brown instead of the Black I had ordered.  I Emailed Northstar and got a prompt response offering ot replace the wallet and shipping cost for the return of the Brown wallet.  Keep in mind this is for a $7 wallet. That is some great service.

I declined the deal to ship the wallet back and ordered a new black wallet. It would cost us both more in time than it’s worth.  I now have an early christmas gift for someone who likes brown wallets.

All is good now. I have the black wallet, It’s very built very well.  I expect I will get many years of service out of it.

∞North Star Leather

I’ve been looking for a new sleeping bag for a few months. My current bag(eggplant) is from when I was like 10 and going to summer camp. Eggplant protects to temperatures down to 65 degrees. Enough about this, Let’s talk about Equinox.

So, I ran across Equinox on the PennPortal blog, Equinox makes Hiking/Day bags, cargo bags, Sleeping bags, many other outdoor living accessories. They are made in Williamsport Pennsylvania, for over 20 years.

I’m going to go with the Forest Green Koala camp bag. (I’ll skip the Eggplant this time)

Equinox Outdoor gear found via PennPortal

The REV360™ moves in a smooth oscillating motion. Cutting hairs with a straight edge to minimize bumps! And it can actually reduce shaving time.

Cards:

• HardCards via Treehugger: Recycled and made in the USA. I love sarcasm.

Tools:

• Channel Lock Tools via PennPortal (Great Site!)

Sandals:

• Okabashi
• Island Slipper

Toys

• Holgate Toys via The Examiner

ToteBags:

• Kristi G via PRweb

Crosstex makes a number of their face masks and other products in the USA.

Check out the Crosstex Isolator Plus N95 Respirator.

It’s common in Japan for sick people to wear a mask, out of curdosy, to prevent other from getting sick. Maybe we should learn something from Them   Feeling under the weather, Get your mask on!

∞Crosstex

Hit a couple stores and this is what was found.

• Suncast Hose Reel – View Suncast on Amazon – I bought a SHA150, sub $30, It’s fair quality but I hardly use the hose through out the year so it will hold up fine.  If you use your hose much, Pickup one of their heavier duty models. They are built much stronger and will run you between $50-100.
• Flexon Hose -View Flexon on Amazon – Nice hose, My current hoses were just too weather damaged. Picked this up at Big Lots for a steal, $15 bucks for 50 ft. The connector is great, easy to attach to the spigot.
• Anchor Hocking Co – Glassware – $5 bucks for a pitcher, another Big Lots score. I’m getting things together to brew beer. This may come in handy when I experiment with keging my beer.  Visit Anchor Hocking on Amazon

My Dad is in the market for some new summer work boots. While we were out we hit a local “Chain”, they have two stores. Chuck’s boots, has an awe inspiring selection of boots(seriously we were there for at least an hour and didn’t make it through Everything). Everything made in the USA is marked with a US flag.

• Chippewa boots – Most everything I saw of this brand was made in the USA. Check your labels though.
• Thourogood
• Rocky Uniform
• Danner - Portland Oregon
• Justin boots
• Carolina Boots
• Corcoran and Matterhorn
• Double H
• Tony Lama

Post a comment if you have used any of these Products. We would all love to hear your experience.