I had a friend ask me to make him a "TRU" style shirt. So I figured I'd do a how-to on it, since I haven't found one anywhere. First, you need to decide whether you want to make the sleeves from scratch, or butcher a combat shirt for them. For this how-to, I'm using old [...] ...»

Being a habitual DIY'er (I even built my own SHOP, for cripe's sake!), and not wanting to pay 18 metric buttloads of dollars for a couple thousand snaps in the 4 primary colors (OD, Coyote Brown, Foliage Green and Black), I spent a lot of time trying to determine how I could make my own, [...] ...»

Back in March, we polled the forum to see if members would be interested in writing articles for the blog. In our experience a blog such as this is pretty boring when it's written from a single point of view. Fortunately the response was pretty positive so we've gone ahead and [...] ...»