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Austin TESTS & REVIEWS the Proof Wallet Leather (Who's it for?)
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Jan 25, 2025
I've tested A LOT of wallets at this point! However, the Proof Wallet in leather stands out as one of my personal favorites! It's high quality, easy to use, and the leather is fantastic. In fact, there is only one thing that I don't like about it! Stay tuned for that and more in this video. - Use discount code GEAR43 for 10% OFF at Carry Proof's site (Paid Link): https://carryproof.com/products/minimalist-wallet/GEAR43 - You can read the full article here: https://gear43.com/proof-wallet-leather-review
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all right I have tested a lot of wallets
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over the years and well this one is the
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proof wallet now we've seen wallets like
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this in the past in fact actually one of
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the most similar ones I've seen is The
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Aviator wallet basically it kind of
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follows that similar sandwich design
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that we're kind of used to with like
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Ridge wallets um except for this one is
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a little bit different in that it is
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primarily made of leather now there is
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aluminum stuff but we're going to get
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into that in just a minute but in the
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meantime I do want to let you guys know
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that the brand did give this to me but
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all opinions are my own if you've been
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watching the channel I'm more than happy
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to talk about the things that I don't
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like the things that I do like in
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exactly who this is for so I'm not
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really going to hold back but I have to
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say this is one of my favorite wallets
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now and that's after testing something
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like 40 something wallets so let's start
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off with what this wallet is for all
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right so this proof wallet in particular
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is their leather model now there is a
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carbon fiber one as well and I think
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they're coming out with some other
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wallets too but this is their leather
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which seems to be probably my personal
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favorite now there is now this is full
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grain leather you have it right here on
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this cast strap and then of course you
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have leather this is a full piece of
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leather that wraps around let's see if I
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can get that to focus again it wraps
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around right there to an aluminum plate
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here now this is nice because it gives
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it structure behind here but you do
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primarily have leather which is nice and
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then of course it has the elastic band
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that wraps all the way around and that
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acts as your cash strap you basically
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slide your cash in right in there well
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of course is when I'm on camera is weird
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but it is actually pretty easy to put
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cash in and out of on the inside you can
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handle up to 25 cards which is pretty
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good and is the best I've seen in any
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minimalist wallet and the way they're
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able to do that is just because of the
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way it's designed of having it wrap
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around there and stuff and then of
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course the main thing behind all of this
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is going to be this pull tab basically
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you just pull it and out comes all of
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those cards now I have seven in it right
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now so you can kind of see actually I
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there's six in there actually um so you
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can see its card how that goes in there
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those six cards you just pull out and
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then just kind of pulls it out as a
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bunch and then from there you just
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basically can kind of sift through it
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and when you find the card that you want
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you just push it down so you just kind
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of pull most used car General you're
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going to want to keep up there at the
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top and that is how this wallet works
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now the MSRP on this is over $100 so it
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is pretty expensive but it is still up
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there with a lot of the wallets kind of
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that it's competing with all right so
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now that we know a little bit about what
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this wallet is let's go ahead and talk
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about the things that I do like about
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this wallet which the first thing is
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it's pretty high quality leather this is
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a full grain leather wallet and I have
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to say I really really like it now of
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course this is aluminum plate but as you
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can see this leather wraps all the way
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around and what I really like is it
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starts to Patina really really quickly
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you can kind of see the darkness coming
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kind of coming in you can see the
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scratches and it just is so soft and
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really really really nice I have no
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complaints at all on the leather um as
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you can see it just really is really is
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great now of course there are wallets
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out there that are not nice leather this
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is not one of them I have been super
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super impressed with it now the next
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thing that I really like about this
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wallet is its pull tab so let's go into
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that a little bit more so talking about
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the pull tab it works really really well
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um I really like the fact that let's see
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if I can get it to I I really like the
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fact that this leather tab is here it
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doesn't jingle around in your pocket it
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doesn't cause any issues because some of
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its competitors do have a metal tab on
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there and what it does is in your pocket
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it kind of like when it's shaking around
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it makes sounds uh and so that doesn't
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do that and then when you pull it out it
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is super super easy to do you put it in
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and then when you put your cards back it
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retracts itself um I also want to point
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out a cool feature let's go ahead and
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pull these cards out you can see right
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here there's a little
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railing and that railing keeps that tab
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in place so when you basically have this
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tab out it doesn't like it doesn't go
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off to the side like some of the
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competitors do and I really like having
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that railing in there that's really
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really smart and in addition that I
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think pretty much any wallet that has
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this pull tab should have and while that
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all was awesome I also appreciate its
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durability as you can see I've been
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using this one no probably 3 weeks
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pretty regularly and you can see there's
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really no damage of course you can see
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little kind of scuff marks and stuff in
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the aluminum and then of course you can
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see the scuff mark and stuff in the
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leather but that is the great thing
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about leather is it does scuff and it
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has personality it ages but it doesn't
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wear out like a lot of the other things
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uh and so I have to say durability is
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really really good I haven't seen any
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frayed kind of um threads or any of that
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nothing is coming apart this elastic
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band isn't even fraying which normally
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some of these other elastic bands on
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other wallets I have seen dend to fray
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and I like that and then of course the
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next thing that I like is its impressive
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card capacity which is the best I've
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ever seen with a minimalist wallet and I
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have to say that car capacity is pretty
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impressive at
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25 cards that is the best I've seen in
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any minimalist wallet uh this is six
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cards but I don't actually have any
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other demo card so I would love to be
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able to see what it looks like at 25
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cards but as you can see the that
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elastic band has plenty of give I will
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say I have a feeling that if you put 25
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cards in there over time you likely
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would probably stretch out that band and
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you'd have a hard time going back to
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like having these six cards I can't say
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that for sure but that likely is what's
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going to happen and then the final thing
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that I really like about it is its
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compact size so you can see how compact
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this wallet is when you compare it up
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against like this Ridge wallet now this
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is actually my original minimalist
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wallet that I started using and got me
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into wallets and as you can see it's not
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that much bigger which is impressive
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because most uh most wallets that are
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leather tend to have a larger form
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factor so if you're looking for a
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leather wallet with a small compact form
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factor that is pretty good you can see
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it's not really much bigger than the
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cards themselves all right so that all
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is great and stuff but what do I not
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like about this wallet it really comes
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down to one thing and it's that it
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doesn't fan out the cards now what I
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mean by that is so when you pull this
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tab out like that you can see uh that it
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doesn't fan them out it just kind of has
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it let's see if I can get this to focus
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again
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you can see it doesn't Phantom out um
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and I wish it did man I cannot get this
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to focus uh it must be that white kind
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of color anyways you can see right here
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it doesn't Phantom out and I really
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really wish it did um it is a bit of a
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bummer because you don't have easy
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access to multiple cards a lot of the
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other kind of ejector style wallets that
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pull them out the top it fans them out
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for you but the trade-off is obviously
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size a lot of those wallets tend to be a
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lot larger because they have to fit in
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kind of an adust Vector mechanism and uh
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it's it's not a bad trade-off especially
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since most people while they may have
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quite a few cards there's really one
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which is that one right there would be
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your most used card so it's not that big
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of a deal but I do miss that sometimes
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about this wallet all right let's go
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ahead and chat about who this wallet is
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exactly for in considering honestly this
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has become one of my favorite wallets
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it's for just about anyone that is
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wanting to get into a minimalist wallet
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now it is really nice for those people
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that do like leather because it does
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have true leather on it that wraps all
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the way around you have that aluminum
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plate which does help give it structure
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and of course it has one of the best
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card capacities out there this really is
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an impressive wallet that keeps it at a
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pretty compact size while being really
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really capable and holding cash and all
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that stuff so I have really no problem
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recommending it for just about anyone
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that's looking to get into a minimalist
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wallet I think the only person that this
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really isn't for is somebody that really
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does want that ejector wallet feel where
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you push a button and ejects card out
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the top because this isn't that it
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doesn't fan the cards out or anything
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like that but the nice thing behind that
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is this pull tab is isn't really a
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moving component so your reliability
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should be considerably better than a lot
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of the other wallets out there that use
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the ejector mechanism now don't get me
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wrong I do like those ejector wallets
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they are some of my favorite wallets but
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after testing this one out I have to say
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it's a pretty impressive wallet and has
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become one of my favorites so with that
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said make sure to like And subscribe on
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