Unique Tools and Gifts

The Rolls-Royce of corkscrews, this handsome tool for the professional sommelier—or well-heeled wine hobbyist—is still handmade in France after 160 years.

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Both a beautiful object and a useful tool, the pocket-sized Stellarscope displays an accurate celestial map based on your latitude, date, and time of day.

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Every beginner explorer needs a beginner compass, and we like this one licensed by the Boy Scouts of America. Features a lens for siting the bearings of distant objects.

Discover worlds unseen with this beginner field microscope! Perfect for leaves, bugs, and drops of pond water teeming with life.

Knowing your way around rope is like having a secret super power. This little knot-tying set is the perfect pocket-sized introduction to mastering friction, tension, and strain. You'll have the most able set of hands at any camp site, boat dock, or rock face. 

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Featuring a belt clip, four interchangeable colored lenses, and a flash button for tapping out morse code, this classic anglehead or "crookneck" flashlight can also stand on its base for handsfree operation.

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This headlamp with a red LED is perfect for spotting nocturnal animals without them spotting you!

Dylan Thuras Co-Founder

Convinced that human structures should be built to human proportions, the architect Le Corbusier designed this measuring tape to take into account human and natural elements, the golden ratio, and the Fibonacci sequence rather than relying on the strict, contextless constants of the metric and Imperial systems.

Keep your essential electronics powered when out in the wild. A must have for your next trek into the unknown.

Sometimes you need to do a little digging. This NATO-approved steel and nylon spade is perfect for foragers looking to take their harvest to the next level. It not only folds into a compact shape, it has a serrated edge to help you hack through tough roots with ease. 

These breathable, washable, natural cotton mesh bags come in a variety of sizes allowing you to field-dress your foraged plants efficiently and bring them home intact.

Seven functions compressed into a two-inch package—everything you need to file your nails,  clean your teeth, or save the day.

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Gloves may offer a simple solution to the problem of cold hands, but what fun is that? Warm your hands with this handsome, portable catalytic burner instead.

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Invented in France 1955, the wood-handled N°06 is the smallest Opinel pocket knife to feature the manufacturer's iconic locking safety ring.

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With roots dating to a 17th century toolmaker, the Boker taschenmesser has been carried in German pockets since 1869.

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