My modular wallet.

[gjohnsoniv]

I got bored tonight so I tried making a kydex wallet.  It's the same style as my tool organizer.  It's more of a prototype right now and will more then likely end up being made into some sort of cover for a notebook that can things can be mounted to.

 

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[Oh Shoot]

That's really, um...well, it's, you know, um....

 

Maybe make it about 3 times bigger, line with Kevlar, and wear around neck as breastplate? ;)

 

- OS

[gjohnsoniv]

Lol.  One could ask the same of one of your neck knives.

[79troublehead]

Hard to believe there wasn't alcohol involved.

[hipower]

Where's the chain to hook it to your belt loop?

[TripleDigitRide]

I once knew a guy who'd do a big line of meth and stay up all night building some of the strangest contraptions.

[Caster]

I once knew a guy who'd do a big line of meth and stay up all night building some of the strangest contraptions.

What've you built lately?

[TripleDigitRide]

What've you built lately?

Just a boring workbench.

[gjohnsoniv]

I'll make it better, I promise.

[TripleDigitRide]

I'll make it better, I promise.

Maybe line it with foil to protect your credit cards with RFID chips.

[Guest sL1k]

I kinda like it. Maybe make one a little smaller to use for fire starting. Use fire steel as the pin holding the 2 sides together. Maybe one of those credit card magnifying glasses with a hole drilled in the corner so you can pivot it out. Figure out a little container to put some matches in it.

[Handsome Rob]

I hate to even use the phrase, but this thread has so much win it's ridiculous.

[gjohnsoniv]

I kinda like it. Maybe make one a little smaller to use for fire starting. Use fire steel as the pin holding the 2 sides together. Maybe one of those credit card magnifying glasses with a hole drilled in the corner so you can pivot it out. Figure out a little container to put some matches in it.

This was the original intent.

 

Anyone else for some constructive ideas?  What do you want? Leather and kydex with some way to attach different center folds for different tools, cards, money?

 

Let me hear 'em.

[Guest Keal G Seo]

Standard box cutter blade that slide out of the side, like hidden under the money? Button cell single LED?

[gjohnsoniv]

What about a mini Mag Light in the hinge?  I'll put up a set of idea drawings that I was working on this morning.

[Jonnin]

How many inserts can you add?  The hinge looks like it would be tough to make it have 3 or 4 or more sections (??).  

 

The money storage there is not doing it for me, I can see it falling right out when you open it.   ?  Hard to say from a pic but I would want the money to in inside a pouch like something.   Same for cards and Id.  Where would you put your change?

 

Needs an ID viewer clear holder so you can flip your DL at whoever without hassle. 

 

A wallet implies certain things.  Place for money, credit cards, ID, change.   Anything else you can do with it without making it huge would be cool, but gotta cover the basics first.   Or, perhaps you do not want a wallet, but a wallet sized survival kit or storage thingy.  In which case, stop trying to put money etc in it, and go wild with the design?

[Guest Broomhead]

Where would you put your change?

Uh...In your pocket. I have never in my life carried change in a wallet. Wallets are for various cards and cash. Putting change in one just makes it bulky, in my opinion.


As far as constructive criticism...An easily accessible pocket for IDs, a few pockets for the essential cards. Like Jonnin said, a more secure money holder (spring clip or magnetic?) would be good. To me, utilitarian wins out. I don't really need a Swiss Army wallet. The hinge pin would be useful to me if it were a skinny, hollow, watertight capsule.

I'll probably come up with more later. Edited November 11, 2013 by Broomhead

[Oh Shoot]

Where would you put your change?

.....

 

A wallet implies certain things.  Place for money, credit cards, ID, change. 

 

You carry change in your wallet? I've never even considered it. Anybody else do that?

 

- OS

[TripleDigitRide]

You carry change in your wallet? I've never even considered it. Anybody else do that?

- OS

Man card or change pouch? Decisions, decisions, decisions.

[Jonnin]

Yes, I put it in there, but not in bulk.  I tend to spend the metal about as fast as it comes in, thanks to our coffee cup coke fund at work :)

[gjohnsoniv]

How many inserts can you add?  The hinge looks like it would be tough to make it have 3 or 4 or more sections (??).  

 

The money storage there is not doing it for me, I can see it falling right out when you open it.   ?  Hard to say from a pic but I would want the money to in inside a pouch like something.   Same for cards and Id.  Where would you put your change?

 

Needs an ID viewer clear holder so you can flip your DL at whoever without hassle. 

 

A wallet implies certain things.  Place for money, credit cards, ID, change.   Anything else you can do with it without making it huge would be cool, but gotta cover the basics first.   Or, perhaps you do not want a wallet, but a wallet sized survival kit or storage thingy.  In which case, stop trying to put money etc in it, and go wild with the design?

Trust me, I already covered that lol. 

 

The money is also held in by an elastic band, not just sitting in there.

 

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Edited November 11, 2013 by gjohnsoniv

[Guest Riciticky]

I keep an extra vehicle key in mine. Has been a life saver.

[Oh Shoot]

I keep an extra vehicle key in mine. Has been a life saver.

 

I keep a spare knife in mine. Might be same. :)

 

 

- OS

[JWC]

Pop rivets would be better than those screws. You could also pop rivet in a piece of leather or something as a hinge instead of the deal you got there.

[UncleJak]

I need one!

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