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My Fully-Tested Aviator Slide Wallet Review (The Good & Bad)
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Jul 22, 2024
The Aviator is a fantastic wallet that maintains the compact sizing factor of other popular sandwich-style wallets but makes it a bit easier to access the cards by utilizing a pull strap. While you can fully customize this high-quality wallet to hold anything from one to twenty cards, its biggest drawback is that the pull strap likes to get hung up behind the cards if you aren’t paying attention. Get your own Aviator Slide on their website (Paid Link): https://sovrn.co/g6avqra Read the full article (I regularly update these with more thoughts): https://gear43.com/aviator-slide-wallet-review
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I've always enjoyed talking about a little bit more of a niche wallet and that's exactly
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the case with this Aviator Slide Wallet by Evermade. Now they gifted me this to show you guys about it, but of course they didn't pay for anything
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here so all opinions are my own on this wallet. In this video I'm going to tell you everything that you need to know, what it is, and then
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I'm going to tell you everything I do like about it, but of course also what I don't
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like about it. And then at the end, exactly who should and should not be buying this wallet
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So stay tuned for all of that and let's get right into it. So first up is exactly what this wallet is
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So this is the Aviator Slide Wallet and how it gets its name is honestly how the cards
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slide up. Unlike most wallets where you basically, well this one actually has a two where it slides
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out like that. However, the slide mechanism is this little strap right here that you pull and out come
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the cards. It holds in between one to three, all the way up to 20 cards on the interior there
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It of course does have some other features such as a coin tray right there that does
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come stock at every single one of the wallets. And then on the front here you can see I have the upgraded carbon fiber cash clip and the
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body itself is made of acrylic and aluminum and this is truly considered a minimalist wallet
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As for the price of this wallet, it's a little under $100 starting out and it can go pretty
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heavily above that, even into the 200 range. All right, so that's enough about what this wallet is
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Let's talk about what I do like about this wallet. And the number one thing is really it's defining characteristic and that is this little strap
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It is better than pulling cards out via a notch. It's just a better way of doing it
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It's cleaner, it's simpler, you don't have to kind of like fan it out by pushing little
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cards out with your thumb and that kind of stuff. It's just a very simple and easy to use mechanism and I do think that is better than a lot of
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other wallets out there. The number two thing that I like is that you can choose how many cards you're going
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to have in this. Now it can range from one to three cards all the way up to 20 cards as I talked about earlier
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and that's done by adjusting the strap. So depending on how many cards you have, you lengthen and shorten the strap and you can
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actually choose at the time of purchase how many cards you kind of plan on having in there
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and they pre-adjust it for you. If you want to adjust it after purchasing it, you basically remove all those little
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screws you see right there and you can adjust the strap from inside of there
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But being able to choose it up front is a really nice thing. In the capacity of 20 cards is impressive for a minimalist wallet
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Most max out at around 12 like the Xter and the Ridges of the World and that kind of stuff
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They max out around 12 so having an extra eight cards is perfect for somebody that needs
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a lot of cards in their minimalist wallet. The number three thing I like about this wallet comes down to this cash clip right here
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The cash clip on this looks really nice. Now this is an upgraded version
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This is their 3k carbon fiber weave version. There's a bunch of other ones out there but I do like this carbon fiber and it does stand out
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I just, I don't know, I really like carbon fiber. I like the way it looks. I don't think it's making it much lighter weight than like having a normal aluminum
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one or anything but hey, it's something. The number four thing I like about this wallet is the included coin tray
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Now most wallets they charge a little bit extra for you to be able to get that as an
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added accessory. Looking at you like brands like Ridge, however this one does come included
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So if you're somebody like in a European country that tends to use a lot of coins, this is
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a good wallet to get just because it's built in. It's exactly the way it is and it comes exactly like that
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Now as for me here in the United States, we don't use coins all that often. So to be honest, I use that for guitar picks but and it works pretty nice
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And the number five thing I like is build quality. So this is a really high quality wallet
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You can kind of see there's some exposed aluminum there. There's no sharp edges but it is very kind of rigid edges and it feels really nice
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All the materials are really good. Even the pull strap right here has a little metal into it and it looks really nice is
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really high quality and they really didn't spare much expense on the quality end of things
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for this wallet. All right, so let's now jump into what I don't like about this wallet
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So it is a really good wallet but there are some things that kind of annoy me a little
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bit about it. So let's talk about those things. So the number one thing comes back to this pull strap
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So this pull strap is really cool and it works really well when it works well
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If you aren't paying attention every once in a while that strap will get hung up right there and you can kind of see right there it gets hung up and just gets a little bit
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weird or things like it gets twisted up and then you just I don't know you're kind of
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messing with it. I find if I'm not paying attention like if I'm paying with one of those cards that happens
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a lot to me and it definitely is a bit of annoying thing. You have to kind of pay attention when you're using that strap
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And it also leads me to my number two thing that I don't like about this wallet and that it really is this little metal thing
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While it makes it feel higher end you can hear it. It likes to jingle around and that is something that actually happens even in your pocket
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So you have to make sure that you have enough cards in there so that it doesn't jingle around
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and I'd say even then it kind of jingles around and it's a bit of annoying thing
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It's another reason why I don't normally get into coin trays because it does the same thing with the coins
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I don't want something making noise in my pocket every time I make a step and that really is the case with this one
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The number three thing that I don't like that is this little thumb notch
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So I have some display cards in here that actually were sent with a double oak and they gave me their wallets
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But you can see right here when you push up these display cards works really well where
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you get a single card out there by pushing up. So you don't have to pull it all out but it has these little thumb notches
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I can do it with these display cards but in real life I have yet to be able to get a single
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card out. It generally pushes all the cards out or it pushes this little plate up and this part
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just never really has worked out very well for me unfortunately when it comes to real life
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Again display cards is doing it on camera but when I use my normal cards that have wear and tear and stuff it definitely doesn't work as well
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And honestly that's the only complaints I have about these wallets. They aren't exactly deal breakers but they can be annoying unfortunately so it's up to
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you to decide if it works for you. Which leads me to who this wallet is for and the number one person that it's for is somebody
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that's wanting to get away from a Ridge wallet. So it has that same like sandwich design where it's between two plates in an elastic band
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It has a cash strap all that kind of stuff. The main difference being that the cards come out the top of the wallet instead of horizontally
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So if you're somebody that doesn't like Ridge this is actually a really good alternative
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I like the fact that they didn't completely copy Ridge. There are a lot of copycats out there and this is not one of them
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I feel like they have a really unique take on the technology and they did a really good
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job with quality so I have no complaints on that end of stuff. So if you're somebody that doesn't want that brand name of Ridge which some people are
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that way. I'm personally not but some people are. This is an awesome alternative for that
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And if you're somebody that needs a large capacity of cards but still wants a minimalist
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wallet this is also for you. I have yet to find another good minimalist wallet that holds up to 20 cards in the way
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that this one does. So if you want a large capacity of cards this is your best option
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Now this wallet is not for somebody that wants complete simplicity. Having that pull strap may seem simple but it does add a few extra little things
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It adds that little jingle and it also sometimes gets tangled up and it can get a bit annoying
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So if you're somebody that wants to deal with just complete simplicity something like a Ridge wallet is going to be better just because it is just two plates and elastic band
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There's no ifs ands or buts about it. It's just extremely simple. This one has a little bit more complexity to it just for a little bit additional convenience
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As for where you should buy this wallet I do have paid links to this wallet down in
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the description and the top comment. They are paid links they get me a commission and help me make videos like this one right here
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