Hi this is Trevor with leatherwallets.org. In this series of videos we're taking a look at leather money clip cardholder wallets just like this guy. This is the Viosi leather money clip cardholder wallet. And let's go ahead and get into it. So this is how it arrived. I got this for $23.95 From Amazon. And this is how it came. So this is just to give you references one dollar more than the Mutbak. We reviewed in the last video. And you know fourteen dollars thirteen dollars more than the Alpine Swiss we reviewed in the first video. All right. So let's take a look.
It comes in this white box flimsy cheap box. I don't know how I feel about that but it does have a nicer cardboard box on the inside. Very slim with their logo. And this is this good good box. I like how displays the wallet. So if you're going to buy this for someone take it out of this box leave it in this box and wrap it like that. You know this looks nice. This doesn't. So my advice there. All right so let's see. Got couple of cards here. A note for the RFID blocking and a thank you card from Viosi. All right. So the packaging. That's all right. Not bad. It depends on your preferences which you like better. The craft box verse the this kind of shiny black box with The Viosi. Make sure you take it out of that white box the Mutbak you can wrap as is. All right. So here is the wallet. It's got this interesting leather on it. It's top grain. The on. So this is interesting on Amazon. It says top grain Kingston leather.
If you look right there stamped it says genuine leather.
So this brings up a good opportunity to talk about leather quality.
So here let's do this. I've got a piece of leather here. Imagine this came off the the hide of the animal right.
And you're looking to make a product with it. So this leather here is full grain Do you see how it has little marks stretch marks you know little little faults with it in the leather. And this is how it comes from you know how it is on a cow with a cow has stretchmarks it gets bit by mosquitoes and ticks and hits barbed wire fence. And you know the skin isn't perfect when it comes off a cow. Sometimes they'll have big brands in it you know. So that's full grain when it right there right where it has all these imperfections which is what you see here.
And is also what you saw on the the Mutbak wallet here. Full grain leather. Now top grain leather is.
They take full grain leather like this and then they sand off that top right. They want to remove all of these little imperfections that are found in the leather. And then re-finish it. OK. So it becomes a preference really. Personally I don't mind faults at all. I want the you know full grain. I don't want it to be sanded smooth embossed with a pattern anything like that. Give it to me raw, not raw but give it to me full grain and I'll be happy. Top grain isn't bad though. So this says top grain leather right. That's it's not necessarily a step down from full grain. It's preference. People may like you know other people like not having these visible marks in the leather and that's fine. Now we get to this term genuine leather that they have stamped onto the wallet genuine leather isn't a leather grade.
It's a marketing term right. Genuine Leather came from marketers who let's go into one other type split leather right split. There is a broad term for a lot of categories below top grade. So if we look at leather quality top grain for grain and then depending on preferences full grain may be best split leather is when they take and I am going to show you up on this and I don't know if you can see it. But they take and you see how thick this leather is. It wouldn't make a real great wallet because as you folded it over and created pockets the wallet would be super thick. So they split leather right take a knife and cut it right down down the center. The part that falls off on the left will be the top grain/full grain right the top the part that falls on the on the right will be this split letter so you know you can use that to make swede for example genuine leather. Also typically is from is labelled as the part that comes off from the right. What is done with those scraps and some of the pieces that aren't used for wallet's is they grind those up to make real fine and then glue those together with polyurethane vinyl etc. And let that dry and that is leather. Right. It's a split finished leather that can be stamped or embossed with a grain to make it look like a higher or higher quality leather. So top grain so I was saying top grain full grain are about the same as far as quality. Right.
Depending on your preferences you may prefer full grain like I do over top grain. If you want a wallet that doesn't have blemishes top grain may be the choice for you. But then we get to split. You know split leather. And that's absolutely that's bad right. So we're going to rank any split leather is bad. Genuine leather as I was saying genuine leather is a term and was created by that crappy leather and marketers who wanted to sell that at a higher price. Right. So they said genuine leather. Well yeah it's it's absolutely genuine leather just has been reconstituted into this stuff. So yes so I don't know why they would stamp genuine leather on the wallet and then put in their listing and their description top grain.
Let's let's. It's hard to sometimes tell. But we're going to we're going to do our best to see which this is. All right. So enough about that. The leather feels ok. Feels. Feels a lot. Feels alright. Has like a baseball glove type feel to it. More than say any of these other leathers so it's a little bit rougher.
Yeah it's a little bit rougher than those other leather and personal preference here.
I don't see that. But this. Finish just makes it look dirty. It's hard to tell which is style. You know like out like the dark areas out here and which is dirt like where this magnet meets. So a lot of discoloration on this guy.
All right. So let's smell it. Has A Strong.
Leather smell to it. It smells pretty good. Yeah it smells like a baseball glove. So that's good. Good points. You know that's definitely a plus. Let's talk about the pockets so we've got an ID window here with a thumb hole. We've got a large center pocket just like we did in the Mutbak wallet. We've got one large pocket here. And then three along here. And then the magnet the magnet feels very strong. So we're going to test that. Let's start with the capacity of cards. Grab a bunch here. Feels good little little tight. Feels just just about perfect for how it should be starting out. Large center pocket. I'm going to put cards in there. But you can also put receipts or other things. And that feels fine. So this doesn't look like they got it perfect but. I threw a card in there and put one card per pocket and then we'll come back. So here again and I don't know what they did here but hopefully this top pocket has you know is sewn so that the car doesn't go all the way down. Let's try it out.
No. Feels like it. Stops right there.
OK, so that is good. Throw another guy here.
Stops there. So we're getting pretty tight.
I don't know if I can get that all the way down. That's the end. So that last pocket is pretty tight. Right now we've got one two three four five cards in there. We can do at least one more. Let's put it behind the ID. Goes ok. Pretty tight. Let's try. Now. I don't know if I can. That's an old one. Let's try one more just to see if we can do it. That's going to be it.
At least at first. You could probably fit one or two more cards in there as again as the wallet stretches out a little bit. So we put in. It's hard to get out, 1, 2 3. 4 5. 6. 7 8.
8 cards. So the same amount. I believe that was the same amount that we got with the Mutbak two more than we got with Alpine Swiss right. Yes so let's check the cash capacity this guy so we will start out that wallet or that magnet felt pretty pretty good. So let's go ahead and start out with 14 bills 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 again to add two more to 16.
16 is good. All right let's bump this guy up to 18.
Still got 18 bills here. Saying that's going to be about. One second here.
18 bills feels about the max for this guy.
Let's try. Let's go and try and jump in up to 20.
Two more 20 that I wouldn't trust more than 20 on this guy.
Still it feels pretty strong but crap let's let's try.
It's go up to more so 22 this is a little bit too loose for me. I'm going to say 20.
20 bills is the max. Twenty two is pushing it.
And that's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 22 bills in that guy.
That's quite a lot.
So that's a big jump up from both of the previous wallets we tested for capacity.
So let's next let's try this scratch test we'll do it the same places as before.
I can get my sandpaper we got 150 grit and would just sand it right here. Where the wallet has the magnet.
Alright. Ah. So don't look too bad.
See the grain is starting in a show like we did with the Mutbak. Much better than Alpine Swiss. We got a little bit of color lightning and we're also clearing off this dirt.
Look this dark look which is probably good has an eye patch there scratch test turned out good. It feels like there's cardboard in that I just want to get a feel for the thickness of the leather it's a very thin and there feels like there's some other material in there.
We're going to have to dissect this in another video see what it's made of. Last but not least let's do the RFID test because this is RFID blocking. So we've got a little meter there. Let's throw in the I.D. window. First.
Looks good. Throw it in the center pocket. And it's not supposed to.
I don't know. Did I not have all the way in?. Wow.
Interesting so let's. This magnet is causing something in there to rattle. So it was just this center pocket and it. And it's when I don't have it all the way in. So if we push this card in until it lines up with the top like that it will scan.
And so that's interesting. That did not happen with the Mutbak and let's test that again. So we're going to do it.
Just so that matches the top that let a little stick up and nothing so RFID. Why is it just that middle pocket too and not the ID window? Let's flip this guy over seemed only happen when I angled it. So again match it to the top.
Wow. So all right. So we're going to score this we are going to score the RFID protection as OK. Not as great as the Mutbak or the Alpine Swiss for that matter. Both of those did RFID protection much better.
So let's just to show you. Let's see.
How far in so let's leave it that far out.
We get a scan. Push pushing down a little bit further scan. So there's that much showing.
You do not get a scan and that rattle it's from something hitting the magnet. We've got. You can see this. Like 3. I'm not coordinated enough to have you see everything 3 millimeters of card sticking out of the wallet.
And the RFID is not catching it. Going back to the Viosi we're going to have it flush so you can see cards flush and it freakin scans that's so interesting. All right. RFID it protects in most pockets. We don't even miss front I.D. it didn't scan the middle pocket scanned so I don't know what that's about front ID pocket is fine middle pocket.
The one you would think has the most protection doesn't has the least. All right so let's wrap up. That was. That was exciting. The Viosi wallet. What do I give it. All right.
Start with the leather leather smells good seems to be. You know I like the feel of it seems like a baseball glove. You know a little bit rough but leather feeling it smells like leather which is great. The how they describe it as top grain. What stamped on this wallet is genuine leather. I don't know where the disconnect is. And that concerns me the color. I don't like the color that's going to be preference. This looks dirty to me like a wallet that. Just got grease and grime on it. Others you know. You guys may like that scratch test. Held up great. The magnets on it was great. So twenty two bills I believe is where we stopped on that 20 20 to something like that. The number of cards was adequate. So I believe we got the same number of cards that we did for the Mutbak. You do get a n ID window on this where you don't get it on the back. Yes that's it so. So overall oh the RFID I have to mention not so RFID protection. Most pockets it did find this center pocket didn't. And I can't explain why. Once we take it apart maybe we'll see what was causing that.
So it's it's going to score lower on RFID protection than either the Alpine Swiss or the Mutbak. The Leather's going to score a little bit lower than the back. Design is good. We didn't have any issues with the pocket's like we did with Alpine Swiss. Yeah. So there you go check it out. The Viosi money clip cardholder wallet. Visit the website LeatherWallets.org where you will see a review of this wallet as well as the other five that we're doing. Just a reminder this one came in at twenty two. Twenty three ninety five. And we are doing wards from $9.99 All the way up to $95. All right so check in with the next video, the next video is going to be a Hanks Belts leather. So that's this guy. This Hanks belt wallet here. This is a made in USA option. It's you know a little bit more expensive. But we're going to be taking a look at that in the next video. And this was the Viosi.
Thanks so much. Good bye.
