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Thirty days. Fifteen blog posts. Eight of them about clocks, because clocks are eight of our products and we are nothing if not literal. What’s actually coming next, give or take: More clocks. We are unwell about this. A second wave of tap handle styles, including a couple of objectively bad ideas we’re going to […]

We make a small range of 3D-printed Glock accessories. They exist because someone asked us, and we thought about it for forty minutes, and decided sure. Currently: Magazine Speed Loader. Hand tool. Compresses the spring while you slide rounds in. Saves the meat of your thumb on a thirty-round dry-stuffing session. 2-Pack Magazine Storage Rack.

There’s a specific feeling Miata owners get around April. The top goes down. The synchros are a little crunchy. The Bilsteins on the rear are starting to clunk over expansion joints. The car has approximately 100 horsepower and you do not care, because the air is warm and the engine is light enough that you

There’s a thing that happens with B-series Hondas. The valve cover gasket starts weeping somewhere around 120,000 miles. You replace it. Six months later you find oil on the timing belt cover. You replace the gasket again. You start to consider whether you actually have a gasket leak, or whether the design just decided —

The Costco hot dog combo has been $1.50 since 1985. The cart you push it in around the warehouse has been roughly the same general shape since Solomon R. Price first walked into a wholesale club. Carrying a hot dog, a churro, a soda, AND samples while operating that cart is a feat of human

There’s a specific ritual in homebrewing. You finish your first batch. It actually tastes good. Within twenty-four hours you’ve decided you need a kegerator, a chest freezer, and a four-tap tower from Beverage Factory. The tap handles get added to the list approximately three months in. We make the tap handles. Custom 3D-printed, in any

Most of our clocks are round, because watches are round, because wrists are round-ish, because the universe loves circles. The Square Luxury-Style breaks that — and once you have one in a room, you realize how much of clockmaking is just defaulting to “round.” It’s aggressively square. The bezel has visible screws — eight of

Some watches are made for climbing Everest. Some are made for pilots crossing three timezones in a day. Some are 3D-printed wall clocks that sit on a desk and get noticed by the UPS guy. The Explorer GMT-Style takes the visual cues of an adventurer’s tool watch — fixed 24-hour bezel, oversized lume-style indices, second-timezone

There’s a printing trick we use on this dial — a layered wave pattern that catches light at certain angles. You print the texture in, layer by layer. It’s a quiet side-benefit of additive manufacturing: you can put surface detail in places no one would bother machining. The Aqua Diver-Style is otherwise classic dive-watch grammar.

Apollo astronauts wore the original on the moon. Buzz Aldrin’s piece is in the Smithsonian. The watch was tested in vacuum, near-vacuum, freezing temperatures, and (in 1962, by an actual NASA engineer) the inside of a centrifuge. It’s a watch for the worst day of your life, designed by people who had thought hard about