I’m not going to lie, November was one of the busiest months of my life. Between all the drops at Carry Commission, launching Gaslight Industries, making some seriously enormous gift guides for Best Damn EDC, and smoking all the meats for Thanksgiving, I didn’t sleep a whole lot.

But we’re back, and we’ve got plenty to catch up on and some seriously cool stuff to finish out the year.

Let's do the damn thing.

This Week At BDEDC

Deep Cuts

Everyone thinks I keep my gear pristine and never use it. The truth? My team won't let me near anything before they photograph it because I destroy everything instantly. We dive into that conundrum and some cool new releases, like the Arno Bernard Turaco and my third knife design, the Carry Commission Camp Mule.

Gift Guides

It’s that time of year. Gift guides galore. I’ve already made two—one for the EDC items that I think make great gifts this year and one for truck gear. But there’s one more coming soon, focusing on budget-friendly items that will still arrive before the big day.

One Item Survival Challenge

About a month ago, we were at Georgia Bushcraft when our good friend Ben Petersen challenged me. He told me I should make a video without thinking about it and without planning. So I made him give me a prompt. What he came up with was a fun little thought experiment about being on a plane that’s going down, you land on a remote island and you lose everything in your carry except the one thing you managed to grab.

What’s the one thing in your carry you would make sure you had in that scenario? Is it your knife? A multitool? Something else? I went around Georgia Bushcraft and asked a handful of survival experts what they would grab.

It was a nice change of pace and a really fun video to make and watch. It definitely won’t be the last one like this either. Give it a watch and let me know what your one item would be.

Gaslight Industries

At long last, several months after initially planning to launch, we got Gaslight Industries off the ground and the first batch of Jerry Can Lighters out the door. They sold out very quickly.

Fortunately, I have some good news. We’ve decided to squeeze in one more drop in 2025. It will be pretty limited, since we weren’t planning on it, but we’re going to do our best to do another drop (sometime this week) and get them all finished up and out the door to arrive before Christmas.

If you want to know when that drop is happening, be sure to sign up for email updates over at Gaslight Industries or stalk us on Instagram.

Carry Commission

This week is a big one for Carry Commission. We’re launching our very first in-house product, a knife designed by yours truly, the Camp Mule. We partnered with LT Wright Knives to have the knife made, and they absolutely crushed it.

This knife, as the name suggests, is meant to be a do-it-all knife around the camp. It’s a medium-sized drop point fixed blade with a flat grind A2 tool steel blade. The handle is a natural micarta with brass pins and a brass lanyard tube. And the Camp Mule ships with a pocket sheath made by JRE Industries and an UltiClip. These are dropping tomorrow, Tuesday December 9, at 2:00 pm EDT in limited quantities.

Last month, Carry Commission teamed up with Proof Razors out of Montana to bring to life one of the coolest projects we’ve done to date. We took their single blade razor, added our signature topographical pattern, the ass logo, and a copper anodizing.

Sure, it’s might just seem like a simple single blade razor, but these things work exceptionally well, have stupid simple blade swaps with an off-the-shelf razor, and will last a lifetime. It also comes with a leather pouch for storage and travel, and that pouch stores a handful of spare blades.

We’re restocking these razors on Thursday at 2:00 pm EDT and this will be the last restock for a while, so don’t miss them this time around.

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Sponsors

We want to take a moment to thank the brands who make everything we do possible:

Carry of the Week

• Drop AAA Copper Flashlight

• Craftsman Sebertool M4

• Narwhalco Pen

• GilTek RUK V2

• Hitch and Timber Runt 2.0

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