Hello. This is Trevor with leatherwallets.org in this series of videos we're looking at money clip cardholder wallets. And in this particular video we're looking at the Mutbak they call it the Bunker. So it's a money clip cardholder wallet.
This is how it comes in. I got it off Amazon for $22.99. That's its regular price. It came with a little wrapping, I took that off to take the pictures. But let's go ahead and open this guy up. As you can see we get a craft colored cardboard box which I don't mind too much. This is definitely a step up from the Alpine Swiss that we looked at in the last video. This one has some style to it. So it's a small company. And yes I don't mind this. It's not too bad. We get a little card here with a coupon on the back.
So. All right. Little cloth bag. And that's another step up from the Alpine Swiss which is nice. All right. So let's check it out here.
All right. So the dark brown leather. It's a full grain. It has the leather finish is a wax finish which is interesting. This type of leather you can pretty much right on it.
So you see that. The thing is with this wax surface, once you start using it and that will warm up and cover right back over. So what that scratch is is not really a scratch in the leather. It's a scratch in the in the surface of the leather. And as you use it that will wear out. I really like this. This leather because it gets this nice distressed look after you ... so leather like this. This full-grain waxed finished leather really has a patina that grows on it not grows. But as you use excuse me the leather it will gain this patina and it really. It's a leather that looks better and better the more you use it already. So there you go.
We got one pocket here a large center pocket and then two pockets here on the front. This is a magnetic money clip and it's got quite a large area compared to the Alpine Swiss which was just a dot. This one's quite a bit larger so looking at it.
Personally I'm not a big brand guy so you know I dress in clothes that don't highlight the brand so much because I don't know that's just the way I like it. And this wallet. So they have the brand stamped on the money clip and on the front both sides so you know it's a good looking brand. Like I like it it's just a little much. I would have liked to seen to have it have one or the other but not both. All right so let's check out the capacity for this guy.
As we saw it has two wallet two pockets up front a large center pocket and then one on the back with the money clip. So let's see how many cards that guy can hold. Alright fits good it's little stiff to begin with. And just like with the Alpine leather or I'm sorry the the Alpine Swiss wallet that's expected because it is new.
We're going to run into the same see the same issue I think with this one as we did the center pocket of the Alpine Swiss in that if the card goes in there it's going to be hard to get out. The one plus is because the cards are sideways instead of up and down. We do have a large surface area in which we can you know get in there and grab it. So it's not too bad it's definitely not as bad as the Alpine Swiss. And just like with the Alpine Swiss once you know you pack it full and give it a few days the leather will stretch to accommodate the cards in and as long as it's you know a little bit tight. Now once it loosens up it will be perfect. All right so we've got four one in each pocket.
One feels like two in there so there's five. Here's a little bit more of that distressing. And again that's that's just the outside wax surface. Once it heats up it's it's going to go right away. Back to you can kind of see that each that are marked into it is pretty much gone after you know just a few seconds of using my thumb to warm up that wax. Let's go ahead and try that again. See it's pretty prominent. And all I'm doing is just you know rubbing it a little bit getting that the wax a little warm and it's it's barely there anymore.
All right. So we've got four five cards in there right now.
Let's try to go for a 6th it is getting pretty tight.
Let's try one more just to see.
We'll throw it back in this back pocket. Yeah that's pretty tight.
So I'm going to call it at to start out with one two three four five six cards would be its capacity right now. And after a bit of abuse you could throw another card in there no problem.
All right.
So now let's try the. How much cash can this money clip hold?. So the Alpine Swiss if you remember topped out at eight.
So let's start with 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.
Feels the magnet does feel a lot a lot better.
Yeah no problem whatsoever with eight bills lets jump it up to ten bills.
OK still no problem.
Let's add two more to 12 now 12 is going to be it's max here.
I can feel it when I was started to give when I was running my fingers on it.
It seemed like yeah 12 is going to be what I'm going to call it.
So 12 bills for this guy that is let's see. You know four bills more than the Alpine Swiss. And that's probably because of this much bigger magnet here. All right next let's check the leather. I know we did that a little bit. Let's give it a feel so the feels a little bit different because of the the waxed surface.
But it is very soft. It feels good. It's so and it's much more feels much more like this full grain than this embossed top grain here. You do. It's a little bit rougher because of that wax that paraffin surface.
But I really like it feels good.
Let's see smells like smells like letter.
I mean it doesn't have a strong odor to it. It smells good. That's good isn't the right word.
Smells neutral.
Yeah I think neutral is a good smell. A good description of a smell.
I don't get any chemicals.
Yeah it's very neutral smell. So that's good that's excellent. That's much better than what we got with Alpine Swiss. That one was just horrible. All right let's check it scratch resistance. It will do at the same place just under this money clip here. We got the same sandpaper which is 150 grit. See that there. See. So we know that this leather is going to this color a lot and that's the wax.
But let's give it a good so the differences is you can kind of see how it's.
It's got little wrinkles now which is good. So basically it's like sanding off that wax surface. And now we're down to real leather which which feels great. The color is there's a you know quite a bit of difference between something not scratched and scratched. But this is the same as within the front. You're the oils in your hand mixed with the paraffin wax that covers it and see how much that's gone down just by me rubbing my thumb on it. You may be able to get this worked back into you know the exact same color alright.
Next let's look at the stitching so you can see we've got a little bit of a highlight color stitching here which is you know pretty cool feature stitches look good. Here is where the thread ends.
You see they did that well and again the thread ends right here that looks good. This isn't lining up straight some of the good.
It must have been me then. I just had a tilted. Over all the construction is very good.
The leather is thin that's a plus and a minus right.
You want thin leather because otherwise the wallet would be too thick. You don't want it so thin that it's that it rips. And this feels pretty good. All right so this guy so I like the construction. I mean I don't see any blemishes. Anything to really call it out on the leather or the stitching. It looks like cotton stitching just so you know which isn't as good as nylon. But remember this is a 22 23 dollar wallet. Yeah. The only thing is this. This brand marking it's on both sides. All right. So next. This has RFID protection. So let's test that out.
Next got our little check out car here. When you see that it works. Let's try it in the back pocket. First
ok.
Looks good there. Looks good there.
You know I like that. So one of the problems that we had with the Alpine Swiss was that when you put the cards in those deeper pockets it sunk all the way down.
All this so Mutbak does something cool here. This pocket instead of having it be full length right. Which you tend to lose your card. It stops like right here which is awesome and allows you to get your card out easier. And then this one goes down all the way to the full length which is which is great. Let's test this one.
Now remember that I tested this OK.
So RFID 13.56Mhz Which is what your smart credit cards frequencies will be the most back successfully blocks them. So I don't have a way to test 126khz yet I am working on that. So hopefully here soon we will be able to test these wallets against. Proximity cards. I doubt any of them will be able to pass. But you know people confuse the two frequencies so I do want to show 13.56 And as soon as I can the 126. All right. That's it. So my thoughts. I love this leather. It's it's a great leather feels great smells great. As it wears you're going to get that patina. It's a it's a great leather so high marks for the leather stitching looks great. The little highlight stitching here is a nice touch. That's good. The pockets. This one was deep all the way. I don't know how much how well I like that. It didn't get very many cards at first. I think it was six. So keep that in mind as it stretches you may be able to fit one or two more so like eight. We're looking at maybe that's going to be the you know we're this while it tops out at as far as the number of cards it can hold. RFID protection top notch couldn't get through. So we covered the leather, the stitching, the pockets, the capacity, the capacity of the money clip. We got 12 bills in there which was you know 50 percent more than the Alpine Swiss which is awesome.
The bad things so Mutbak on both front and back a little overdone for me. The leather some people may not like this leather in that you know it scratches and shows those scratches so easily. But this is a leather I like because it builds character. I mean this scratch is going to disappear tomorrow with use but the character that that comes with a wallet like this that patina that gets built. I love it. And that's it. So this is a great option if you're looking for a small front pocket money clip cardholder wallet. Remember that it is magnetic. And I forgot to mention that. But the magnet on here will degauss re-writable cards so a credit card. No problem. Right. The credit cards are right once on them the magnetic strip is right once read many. So what I'm talking about here is things like a hotel key card where it gets rewritten so many times. This one this magnet will the degauss those you will be able to use it. If it comes in contact with the magnet so be aware of that. Other than that that's it. So I give this wallet high high marks. It's double the price of the Alpine Swiss. But I believe it gives you way more than double the longevity that looks that ten dollar difference adds a lot of value so Mutbak. Check it out. Check out the Web site. LeatherWallets.org. We are going through five different moneyclip cardholder wallets. Going from $9.95 to $95.
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