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Toast Wood iPad Cover Install and Review
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May 30, 2025
A real wood cover for your Apple iPad Mini? Sure it looks beautiful, but is it hard to actually put on properly? Dave Taylor from https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ finds out with the walnut Toast iPad Mini cover, finding it a bit tricky, but quite doable, with the end result beautiful and satisfying.
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about iPad covers now I
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have my iPad Mini with its little smart
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cover but here's the thing the back kind
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of naked so toast sent us one of their
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really cool wooden iPad covers yes would
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this is actual wood makes me slightly
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anxious to put it on because what if it
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breaks what if it cracks but they assure
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me that doesn't happen and if it does
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they'll work with me so let's go ahead
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I'm gonna swing the camera around and
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look down so you can see what I'm doing
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and let's go ahead and install the toast
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iPad Mini actual real-life honest-to-god
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would cover and then we'll go ahead and
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put the little front piece on - although
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the front piece and the Smart Cover hmm
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well we'll figure it out as we go so
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hang on all right so we're ready to go
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here's our iPad let's go ahead and turn
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it upside down it's clean and I just
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washed my hands so there's no oil or
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grease now let's go ahead and take this
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out of the case before we go any further
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there's actually something else in the
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case - if we can open it up because
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there turns out that there are button
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covers they're somewhere in here no all
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right well we have button covers maybe
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on here
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no no that's interesting well we're
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supposed to have button covers and let
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me start off by showing you this you see
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that piece on the side here that's sort
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of mostly cut out that's if you want to
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use your smart cover the idea is you pop
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it out before you put this on and then
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once it's on you have that side that's
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available for the smart cover to work
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with so pretty slick and all we're gonna
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do is we're gonna go ahead and pull off
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the back film if we can get that to work
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let's see if we can do that without
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trashing the cover does it sound like I
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have some anxiety about this it's
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possible I do
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so here we go whole thing peels off we
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can get that off camera now we're on
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here now of course is the serious task
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so what we want to do is we want to line
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up the buttons and what they recommend
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is you actually come at it from the side
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so let's try that and then you roll it
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on and should be lined up pretty well
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let's see the camera looks like it's
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good maybe a tiny bit high the buttons
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it looks like I'm a little bit high on
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this so let's go ahead and take it off
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and try again just a little bit lower
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let's see how that looks
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now I can look on the side no that's
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actually that's worse
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where we're working it but let's try
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there what do you think I think that
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looks pretty good still maybe a tiny bit
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ahead let's move it back just a tiny bit
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I'm sure glad that these are designed to
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come off and on a couple of times there
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let's try that when it's no got to make
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sure it's square on the device now we
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roll it back gently let's see how it
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looks over the camera that's well not
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perfect so now we roll it from the side
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that we've done on to the device and go
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ahead and just sort of roll down on this
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roll down on the other sides and that's
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most of the work now what they recommend
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is you actually roll it on the surface
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you're working on so you can see I'm
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doing that now including on the edges
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and let's see we're almost done let's do
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the top then we'll do that corner let's
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see well that corner this is pretty good
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not perfect
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but a little bit of enthusiasm we should
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be fine and by the very nature of the
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design of course it's not going to be a
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perfect fit because we taken a flat
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thing and tried to make it certain fit
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on something that's not flat that's okay
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we can live with it so there we have it
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and it looks like it's installed pretty
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well
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now let's go ahead and put the front
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cover on it so I'll pull that in and
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it's easy enough again pull it out and
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gently take this off and all we're gonna
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do is we're gonna actually put the
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plastic on and I'm actually not going to
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install it but you can see you take this
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off and then you just line it up and put
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it on the top here and the reason I'm
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not going to install it is because I
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already actually have a protective film
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on the front so I don't actually need
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that so we're gonna stop here and what
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toast tells us is that as it sits for a
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few minutes it will actually get a
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little stronger and a little tougher so
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there you have it I have successfully
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installed a very nice walnut iPad cover
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so let me switch to being on camera so
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there we have it I have successfully put
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a wooden cover on my iPad and not had a
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heart attack along the way it is a
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little anxiety provoking I will be
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honest because I just was very concerned
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that I was gonna like bend in and do
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this and snap crack but it actually
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turns out to be pretty tough and durable
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and I really like it and I like the fact
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that it's wood because so much of our
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modern technology tends to be plastics
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and Steel's and metals and glass and
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stuff so it's nice to have wood further
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what I also did while the camera was off
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and I was spinning it around is I copped
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off that optional piece on the edge I
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know it's a little hard to see but what
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it does is it lets me use my Smart Cover
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and this now is a complete win in my
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opinion you can see the Smart Cover fits
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very neatly on there and
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a little hard to see the only issue is
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why do I have a blue smart cover when I
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have a walnut back makes me want to go
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get a dark brown smart cover that's a
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whole nother issue anyway so this is
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from company called toast this is the
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toast would cover for the iPad Mini it's
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39 bucks at toast made calm but hang on
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there's more to it because this is
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walnut it also comes in ash bamboo and
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ebony and there's a whole bunch of
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options this is just a plain wooden
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surface there's all sorts of cool things
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we could have done here for example we
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could get a really cool check this out
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skull and crossbones engraving on the
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wood for five bucks is they have a range
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of about five or ten different options
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there you can also get custom text on
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here so I could say abandon hope all ye
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who enter here hunt me in the mail sort
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of goes with this skull and crossbones
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motif the front cover is an additional
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$15 versus the $39 for the back and
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here's what's really cool is I could
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send my own completely unique design
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maybe Cthulhu or something see it's that
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same thing I could have Cthulhu on here
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and for a completely custom design takes
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him a couple of weeks to etch it onto
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the piece of wood but they send it to
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you in its 69 bucks so it's only a
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thirty dollar up charge to be able to
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have this be whatever you want it to say
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happy Anniversary honey
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whatever and it's pretty slick so this
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is the toast wood iPad Mini cover 39
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bucks at toast made calm says Dave
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Taylor and now I need to go and find
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some apps that are also have a walnut
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background to sort of keep the theme
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going anyway see you in my next video