Spring is a time for sprucing up, inside and out! For the Hand-Eye Supply Spring Quarterly we spent a day on job with Joshua DeParrie of Eco-Plumber. Joshua is a professional pipe whisperer and Jiu-Jitsu black belt. Between troubleshooting plumbing problems he schooled us on conceptions of balance and flow, discussed his take on Tao, and reviewed the Spring Collection.
Freshly foraged from former eyewear giant H.L. Bouton’s funkiest new-old-stock archive, these safety glasses are still practical and hip as the day is long. Impress everybody in your shop class with your OG safety. Large lenses protect your eyeballs from intruders and the crushing boredom of contemporary style.
Choose from sweet fades, neon frames, and retro shapes but rest assured all of these babies are ANSI Z87.1-2010 certified.
Available Now from Hand-Eye Supply $5.00 – $20.00
The Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is looking forward to reflecting and projecting at tonight’s presentation by Severin Villiger. The talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, Oregon. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!
Severin Villiger: New Technology vs. Old Technology – Recreating Masterpieces of Architecture and Engineering With 3D Technology
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
Tuesday, Mar. 25th, 6pm PST
Tonight at Curiosity Club we’ll talk with Keegan Onefoot-Wenkman, the talented printmaker, artist, and prefix half of KeeganMegan & Co. We’ll hear about doing things the hard way by hand, printing with steamrollers, and more. The talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!
Keegan Onefoot-Wenkman: “My Hands Are Going To Fall Off”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
Tuesday, March 11, 6pm PST
Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is making winey waves. Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor of Kookoolan Farms presents MEAD!, an insider’s look at the history and future of the world’s oldest booze.
Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, Oregon. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!
Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor of KooKoolan Farms: MEAD!
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
Tuesday, Feb. 25th, 6pm PST
Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is back for 2014. Tonight’s exciting presentation is from furniture maker Amanda Wall-Graf of HENO Shop.
Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, Oregon. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!
Amanda Wall-Graf
HENO: “The Power of the Hustle: Passion, Community and Creativity in a Town Where You’re a Dime a Dozen”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
Tuesday, Feb. 11th, 6pm PST
Back before the ’60s were swinging and mod, Paul and Rose Svarc started a workwear company. Their family-run clothing business has withstood the test of time and is thriving today, still based in Montreal and going strong. If the name Svarc feels familiar you’re probably a denim dork and well-read in the indigo arts, because Brandon Svarc is the designer behind Naked and Famous. Coincidence? Obviously not.
After his grandfather Paul passed away, Brandon decided to honor his grandparents’ work and revive their early semi-eponymous line, PaulRose Products. The new Paulrose designs are based on the company’s workwear and incorporate the high quality fabrics of the Naked and Famous line. Naked and Famous is known for its range of raw, high quality denim and idiosyncratic style. They’ve produced both scratch-and-sniff pants and a jean using 22oz. denim, which must feel like second grade and body armor respectively. In comparison, the Paulrose product line is proudly limited. There are exactly two (2) cuts to choose from, a heritage style based on the 1947 Levis 501 (to be, uh, totally specific), and a narrower modern slim cut.
Both are made from 17oz. Japanese selvedge denim, woven at small studio mill in Okayama, Japan which specializes in artisanal denim fabrics. It is made using slub yarns, woven at the lowest possible tension, creating a hand woven look and texture. This gives the burlier-than-usual denim an enjoyable feel… and keeps it from wearing like riot gear. In short, it’s slubby, unusually tough, high quality material. And unsanforized? But of course.
(For those on the mellower end of the selvedge-obsessive scale, “slubby” means that the super thick yarns used in the fabric give the pants a slightly textured feel, and “unsanforized” means raw as hippy goat milk: unwashed, deeply colored, and likely to tint your white persian cat if you’re not careful.) The fabric will shrink 1 size when washed. If you’re going to be a sane pants-wearer and wash them you’ll want to size up from your normal/pre-shrunk size.
They don’t do a dozen options, they don’t do cheap labor. What Paulrose does offer is high quality, extra-thick (17oz.!), long-wearing jeans you can take to work or play. If that doesn’t sound like the right idea, we feel sorry for your legs.
Our model is Marc, a Northwest native and friend of the shop. His CV includes: wilderness guide, trailblazer, wilderness firefighter, and salesman of fine meat products.
Does your desk lack a certain… gravitas? Around here we recommend filling every ambiguous void with knives. In this case, knives designed to compliment your daily writing needs and terrorize your post-its with all the charm of mysterious megafauna. Kujira knives are what you kneed.
Do you love prying, cutting, drinking and capital letters? If you’d like to partake in these simple hoodlum pleasures with a shiny new “forever object“—made from a material that looks like steel’s sexy older sibling and feels like a million bucks, no less—look no further. These simple tools are SOLID, from the Portland-based design team INDUSTRY. They are the first in a line of products meant to evoke a “Solid State of Mind.” In addition to whatever else a “solid state of mind” conjures up, the tools push the style/function balancing act hard.
SOLID was designed (and is sold) as a set; one Edge tool, and one Opener. Tougher than a multitool, slicker than an oil spill. Beautifully machined and easy to keychain up, you can use these tools for a surprisingly wide range of prying, scribing, scraping, scoring, drinking needs.
We’re obviously suckers for pocket knives around here. But what do you do once your pockets are full? Level up. Pocket these at your own risk. Prepare for an Iron Chef of one with beautifully practical Japanese tools for culinary traction. Midori Hamono and Tosa knives belong in the kitchen, and in the right hands they’ll will win you an excellent dinner.
Midori Hamono knives set a stellar example for pragmatic tools made beautifully. Handmade in Japan, the thin blades have a professional grade VG-10 stainless core with 15 layers of laminated stainless Damascus cladding, and a tsuchime or hammer marked finish. The dappling of the hammer marks prevents materials from sticking to the side of the knife and the VG-10 is great because it means “gold” and “10.” The long Chef’s Knife is an ideal all-purpose worker, adept at precise and delicate cutting—from sashimi fillets to other delicate, um, meatwork. The Paring Knife, while smaller, is a heavy hitter for small fruits, cheese and decorative cutting, or baby’s first Damascus steel.
The Tosa Nakiri is a traditional blunt vegetable knife. Ideal for fast, small chopping. Between the sharp blade and stout shape, the Nakiri gives good leverage for excellent prep work. The thin blades are handmade in Tosa, Japan. The double beveled edge and core is made from high carbon steel (hagane), forged to hammered iron (jigane) for tensile strength. The Tosa Santoku knife features the same blade stock with a shape ideal for careful slicing. Ideal for many many jobs around the kitchen, these Santoku knives are used for all manner of slicing and skinning, from filleting to peeling.
They’re both easy to sharpen and well known for their durability and long lasting cutting edge. The light wood handles may darken with use but resist breakdown. The blue-black of the forged iron cladding also looks super-boss—perfect for all your stealthy daikon dicing. Make sure to clean and wipe the moisture off the blade after each use to prevent rust. Don’t soak at length. And don’t point, it’s rude.
Check out these cool cutlery options and more, available now at Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply. Order now for Xmas shipping within the US!
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