I’ve owned at least 200 knives in my life so far, thanks to a trip back to my family home in 2019 I found my first knife and still have it today, albeit a bit worse for wear. Since that first knife, I’ve owned cheap knives, expensive knives, swords of many types, carbon fiber knives, […]
Style & Grooming
The Dopp Kit: A Necessity for Every Man
The term Dopp Kit confuses a lot of people, but when it comes down to it, it’s just a bag to keep accessories organized when traveling, such as toiletries and other smaller items. Where did the term Dopp kit come from? Dopp kit is a term particularly in use in the US for toiletry bags. The name […]
Johnny Slicks: Grooming essentials for the refined gentleman
I’ve personally purchased and tried just about all the products that Johnny Slicks produces. Known for their handcrafted organic beard oil and pomade, they have a few other products too. Out of their full line of products the two I use on a daily basis are the beard oil and pomade. No, I do not have a […]
An interview with Burly Boy Beard Company
Beard’s can either be all business or all clusterf*ck, all rough or all soft. There’s not really an in-between – but there is a way to go from all clusterf*ck in the field to all business in a meeting or all rough to all soft for your wife/girlfriend/one-night fling. The answer is Burly Boy Beard […]
The K Bar Soap Company – Frag Out
If I were a Twitter Soy boy, I’d do that thing where I type a phrase over and over until I run out of characters, and that phrase would be “Support Veteran Owned Companies.” But I’m not so I won’t. Instead, I’m going to tell you a bit about a veteran-owned company called the K […]
K Bar Soap Co: Ditch the Bar Grab a Grenade
If you’ve read the Loadout Room for any period of time you know we are staffed by vets. Tons of vets, Army Rangers, Green Berets, Air Force Engineers, SERE Specialists, and of course Marines. As a veteran owned and operated company we always like to help our fellow veterans. Today we want to highlight The […]
OneBlade: Is it Worth $300?
Full disclosure; I was sent this blade to test and evaluate. This short review is solely my opinion of using this type of razor for the first time. I never really got into the shaving thing until I joined the Marine Corps, then it became mandatory. Starting in boot camp and lasting until I was […]