Measure It When It Is Cold: Machinist Tee

A part comes off the machine hot from cutting, and hot metal is larger than the same metal at room temperature. Gauge it hot and it reads oversize, so you cut it undersize, and by morning it is scrap. Let it normalize, then measure.

Printed on a shirt it sounds like a proverb about not deciding anything while you are angry. It reads as earned wisdom from someone who has thought about it, and strangers are completely confident.

Set in an engraved serif, letterspaced, like something carved over a door. Filed as a routing sheet note with SECOND OPERATION HELD FOR MORNING beneath. Both readings happen to be true, which is rare.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.