Category: Hot Gear Friday

What kid hasn’t dreamed about having his own private air force?

I mean, what could be more perfect? Although given the congestion on the northbound roads this weekend, perhaps one of them on tracks would be good, too.

Today’s “hot gear” is, along with the Bowie knife and the K-Bar, perhaps the most legendary piece of cutlery in the business – the Khukri. The Khukri is a strange knife, to western hands; oddly-balanced, weirdly-shaped, more of a machete than a knife.  It looks, and to western sensibilities, feels odd. So clearly, the legend…

It was about this time seventy years ago that World War II was heading toward its climax; Germany had surrendered;  Marines and soldiers were mopping up on Okinawa.  The world didn’t know about the atomic bomb yet. And the idea of Air Power was at its peak; after three years of strategic bombing over Europe,…

A Ford GT40 – one of the dream sports cars of the ’60s and ’70s – found in junk-filled garage: From the article: This isn’t just any Ford GT40, either. This is chassis No. 1067, and while it appears to lack the racing pedigree of some other GTs, it is among the rarest. The World…

It’s that gun. The weird one that looks like some propmaster built it. You know the one. That one. That weird, space-age-looking thing that “Karl”, the cyborg-y looking “terrorist”/thief (Alexander Godunov) in Die Hard, all uncustomary lines and strange curves and fussy, funky handgrips…: …that blazed away at John McClain on the roof of the…

It’s high time I reprised “Hot Gear Friday” – the feature wherein I write about…well, hot gear. As a general rule, the “gear” is either musical instruments or firearms.  Johnny Roosh used to do other stuff – razors, motorcycles, the like – but i’m more narrowly focused.  Also, guns and music gear are about the…

After a too-long hiatus, I’m back with Hot Gear Friday. This series – allowing for a few of Johnny Roosh’s swerves into motorcycles, cars and nose-hair trimmers. and mine into audio gear – has always been about two things that made America great; guns and guitars. . And as I noted a few years ago…

So I’ve had a Hot Gear Friday post written about my favorite bit of hot gear – my highly-hotrodded 1960 Fender Jazzmaster – for almost a year now. But can I get my daughter – who has the family’s only camera – to take a Glamour Shot of it? Grrrr. Soon.  Really.

With yesterday’s passing of Les Paul, there was really only one option for Hot Gear Friday today. I wrote this piece about 18 months ago: It’s a ’57 Gibson Les Paul Standard, one of perhaps the three most sought-after electric guitars in the business. I recall reading that they went for $279, brand new out…

My posse and I are heading to Wisconsin later today and decided to jump in last-minute with a bunch of other colleagues that are going on a seven-hour tour bike tour of the Milwaukee area tomorrow morning. Normally, the three of us are Harley guys but the dealership didn’t have enough units due to our…

It was 1940.  Britain had been tossed from the continent, leaving most of its equipment behind in France.  It was facing an imminent invasion, and was being choked off from supplies from the outside world by the German submarine offensive. Britain needed weapons.  It needed ’em fast. And it needed ’em cheap. And so the…

The Obama Administration apparently now thinks the economy isn’t going to revert to subsistence farming and roving gangs of thugs led by carnivorous warlords. But I got to thinking; what if he’s wrong? What Hot Gear are you, fellow American, going to need to get through a real crisis – not the kind Rahm Emanuel…