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Foam plugs cost pennies and outperform most muffs if you roll them right. Everything else in the hearing and eye protection aisle is about whether you'll actually use it.

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Ten minutes, one corded clipper, and a neckline you leave alone. The mistake that ruins a self-cut is almost always the same one.

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Skip the anvil and the coal. A hardened steel blank, a few files and one weekend gets you a knife you'll actually carry.

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The lessons a boy actually needs, roughly in the order he needs them, from the shoulder seam at nine to the tailor at seventeen.

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