Hi this is Trevor with LeatherWallets.org. In a series of videos we're taking a look at money clip cardholder wallets and specifically in this video we're looking at the Leatherology. Money Clip cardholder. First off the packaging so as you can see this is excellent presentation for a gift. There is no need to wrap that.
Personally I'm not big on wrapping so that's a definite plus in my book.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that guy. I've got this nice little material that covers it. It almost feels like leather. I don't know if it is. I don't know what this is. Feels pretty good. Then you've got the wallet. All right so let's talk about this guy a little bit. First let's take out this card. Some information on where it's made How It's Made etc.
So this one's a little bit different. So all the other wallets we've taken a look at have not been bifold where this guy is a bifold. So what makes this a money clip cardholder wallet. Well I would say the minimalist design so very few pockets. This guy has the same number of pockets.
That's the same average I have one more than some and one less than others has an outside money clip.
So this is really thin, small. It's designed to go in your front pocket extra money clip. That's kind of why it fell into this category of money clip cardholder wallets. Even though it does have a bifold so it's get into it. There's a ID window up front with the thumb hole right there opening it up. You've got a larger flap pocket here. Nothing. You cannot stick anything in there so you'll see it with bifolds that this is open right in here. So you can do like inserts, picture insert stuff like that. You've got three pockets right down there and one center pocket there. And then of course the money clip. So this one is a retention clip. All the other wallets that we've put that have been magnetic. So that's a little bit different there. The fill of the leather it's very soft has lot to give to it feels like it would stretch. There's not an easy place for me to test that without the backing material. Yeah. It feels pretty good stitching looks good.
All the way around.
Don't see any issues there. And it looks like it's nylon because of the melted edges are which is good nylon is a high quality material.
All right let's so nothing too bad that we got some blemishes here. Now. Those are cosmetic I believe this is a full grain leather so there should be blemishes in the natural blemishes in the leather. But this off color stuff doesn't look natural to me. Yeah it's just cosmetic. It's disappointing that such an expensive wallet had that to begin with.
But it looks like it came off right.
All right. Let's test capacity for this guy so let's grab a bunch of cards here. The leather has a lot to give to it. And you can see that this pocket is kind of bending out already. I don't really like that.
It's got a lot to give so that just fell in there practically. I mean.
Like all the other wallets required a little bit of force to go into the pockets. This feels good. Feels about the right tightness. Right depth which is good try the middle pocket here. That's as deep as it goes so that's good. Let's try this top pocket a little bit tighter. And again that's as deep as it goes so I like that how it staggered offset. So you can still you know get a good grip on each of those cards. The top pocket here.
It's a little bit tight. We're going to run into the same issue.
As we did with Alpine Swiss is I don't know how I am going to get that out without taking out any card. If there was you know at some way to grip it that would be good as it is that card because of the tightness of the wallet. I don't know how many get that out. Let's worry about that when it comes to it. So. This.
This flap can fit you know good number of cards there.
Still fits at least card or two and here. Fortunately I think these are all maxed out. Put it in there so no one there.
So that pocket is going to get, that annoys me. How floppy how loose doesn't seem like a good place for cards. Never had a wallet that has that so I'm not a very good judge long term. I can tell you that once this stretches out a little bit this you know it has a grip right here right here once this stretches out whatever cards you put in there are just going to fall out. Right now it feels good though, feels alright at least for that many cards. So let's check the capacity so I put in 4 cards in that slot. We've got 2 cards in the ID slot. So that's 6 total.
Got a card here 7 middle card and this is a struggle to get those out of there. 8 9. Oh look how deep the pocket is. That is way unfortunate. How in the world would somebody get a card out of there that is. Oh my gosh can't store cards in that pocket. You know what sucks also is these flaps. I don't know how I am going to show you that. These flaps right here. That's a ridge. So your car comes up and hits that ridge. On both sides.
Right there.
It's not sewn. So it must be glued. Man I. That. So. Problem is, if the glue comes loose. In an area.
Your cards are going to it's going to be that much harder to get your card out. It's going to hit that flap. I don't like that design at all. I don't like how deep it is. I don't like how this isn't sewn it's glued. If that glue ever comes away I don't like how there's a ridge there.
So that's unfortunate.
You can see here there's ridges on each of those pockets just like there was for the Viosi. and the Mutbak but no ridges. For this Hanks belts. See that? Smooth where each of those pockets meet the outer layer. Compared to this guy you can see each one of those ridges that is unfortunate to me.
Ninety five dollars. All right. We need to finish testing the capacity. So two three four five six seven eight nine ten. Think I fit all of those in there so ten cards.
Let's check bills. Remember that this does have the retention clip and not magnetic. I don't think you would be able to get as many in there as the main magnet would start.
10 six seven eight nine 10.
It's pretty tight to begin with. So.
Maybe you can slide it in this way.
So that's pretty tight to get in there and I did it sideways like that.
So with some use this will stretch a little bit just try sticking all 10 this way. It's not going to be. It's not going to be easy taking this out putting it back in unless you do it. You know one of the sideways it would be much easier. It is pretty tight.
We're going to stop at 10 as long as this retention clip holds up that will be that will be OK for most people. Ten bills is good. And it can hold its tight enough to hold one bill just fine.
I mean it's so it's that tight.
So capacity, feels soft smell it. Again this wall has a neutral smell like the Mutbak and the Hanks belt. Yes so it's smells fine, smells like leather it's pretty neutral so that's good doesn't have the chemical smell that we got for the Alpine Swiss. Let's go ahead and do the scratch test on this guy. So where we're going to scratch it up.
Well let's just pick right here. Same 150 grit sandpaper that we used for all the other ones.
Go ahead and see how this leather reacts.
All right. So that's fine. It's. No big discoloration similar to the Hanks belts. You. Know.
Both the discoloration on these guys were very minimal.
Looks fine looks like a hold up fine. All right so let's wrap it up.
Conclusions on the leatherology. Remember this guy is $95 right now, or at the time that I bought this $95 dollars at Amazon retention clip bifold flap pocket so the leather is very soft and has a good feel to it. Good smell. Good smell. Construction wise. So there's a few parts that are a little bit disappointing for me. Construction wise this extra you know this space right here I don't think is necessary. How thin the leather is has me concerned with its durability. The fact that you're paying so much and you still have these ridges on you know where the pockets meet the main part of the wallet. And then this center pocket is a disaster in my opinion. One it's the whole depth. So a card will get lost in there. Just to give you know a reference point putting a card in there it sinks all the way down which makes it extremely hard to get out.
There's just not enough give and space to get your fingers in there two the leather that comes up on the sides rolls over and is not sewn in there so there's a ledge past where your car will go. So if the card gets pushed down past that ledge it makes it extra hard to get out because it will hit the leather edge that's curling around and that card will just hit it which sucks.
It's glued. So. You know you're depending on that glue to last longer than you like the wallet. Which.
I can tell you is true in my opinion the glue lasted longer than I like the wallet. It's just. It's an expensive wallet. This is going to be for a certain type of person if you're that type of person. This is good. You know if you want a flap pocket if you want that I.D. window which feels like you know good quality plastic everything feels fine. Here the quality is made like everything is almost great. Center pocket sucks. I don't know why you need so much. Like if we lined up. These two edges. Do you see how much extra material there is here? It's like they want you to pack it this full of cards right.
I don't see that happening. Smells good feels good stitching looks great. No issues there. Retention clip is very tight.
If you want a retention clip this is the only one I've reviewed that has that. So that's going to be a big plus. Very tight. It's going to be hard to get in multiple bills until this loosens up if it loosens up you don't want it to get too loose because then it won't hold any.
So, I'm not given this a very good grade and I hope you see why. It's not the leather, the leather feels great it's thin but you know it feels great, smells great, stitching looks good. It's just some of the decisions that were made when they put this together which is unfortunate especially for such an expensive wallet.
That's my thoughts on this money clip cardholder wallet. Make sure you check out all the other videos. We've done reviews from ten dollars all the way up to this guy and everything in between. Check out the website. LeatherWallets.org. Where you'll see all the other wallets that we review and a bunch of information there. Do you have any questions comments concerns. Be sure to let me know. Thanks for checking out the video. Goodbye. One thing I forgot to add this does not have RFID protection. So we can just verify that as soon as I find my test card.
We'll just put it we'll put it in one of the pockets in the center just to show you.
You can see it scans so no RFID protection in this wallet. Thanks. One other thing I've got to mention in the conclusion was the packaging is packaging is fantastic. If you're looking for a gift item and want something that you don't need to wrap I mean that looks great. Whoever gets it will see and recognize the quality. So great job there. If you're looking for something with a good package leatherology. Consider that guy.
