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MorXpe
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MorXpeThanks for the comment, I can tell you've put some thought into this.
A few points: The inner skin exposure and corners bending wear are certainly a personal aesthetic preference. It's actually one of my favourite parts, how the wallet bends and moves, and concaves to form whatever is inside it. Same goes for the logo. Pockets: I'm not really entirely sure what you're speaking to here. You talk about putting everything in one pocket, and then link to a wallet with 2 seperated pockets? Every single wallet I have ever seen has seperated cash and cards.. theres a reason for that.
As Dieter Rams puts it so eloquently; "Good Design is as little design as possible - Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity."
Design: the simple wallet was designed to be incredibly, stupidly simple. But don't let that fool you. The wallet was designed to have the LEAST amount of thickness in a leather wallet as possible. By eliminating folding features, placing pockets ontop of eachother, I only have 2 layers of leather thickness. But still enough to cover your cash (no triple folding/stuffing), fit bigger cards/passes in the back pocket, and 5+ cards in the front pocket.
Using my calipers, my empty wallet is ~3.5mm thick by adding a flap, like the kenton sorenson design, you automatically double the thickness. to 7 mm, and get no added value. Same carrying capacity, more bulk, and you have to unfold the wallet everytime.
I LOVE Kenton Sorenson, he was one of my main inspirations when I first started (beautiful craftsmanship), and I have to say, when comparing keep in mind you're looking at his $95 wallet vs, 55$ retail (possibly as low as 35$ on massdrop).
When the materials, craftsmanship and everything else is the same, and you can still almost buy 3 Hand and Sew wallets for the price of one of his... I think it's an easy choice.
A few points: The inner skin exposure and corners bending wear are certainly a personal aesthetic preference. It's actually one of my favourite parts, how the wallet bends and moves, and concaves to form whatever is inside it. Same goes for the logo. Pockets: I'm not really entirely sure what you're speaking to here. You talk about putting everything in one pocket, and then link to a wallet with 2 seperated pockets? Every single wallet I have ever seen has seperated cash and cards.. theres a reason for that.
As Dieter Rams puts it so eloquently; "Good Design is as little design as possible - Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity."
Design: the simple wallet was designed to be incredibly, stupidly simple. But don't let that fool you. The wallet was designed to have the LEAST amount of thickness in a leather wallet as possible. By eliminating folding features, placing pockets ontop of eachother, I only have 2 layers of leather thickness. But still enough to cover your cash (no triple folding/stuffing), fit bigger cards/passes in the back pocket, and 5+ cards in the front pocket.
Using my calipers, my empty wallet is ~3.5mm thick by adding a flap, like the kenton sorenson design, you automatically double the thickness. to 7 mm, and get no added value. Same carrying capacity, more bulk, and you have to unfold the wallet everytime.
I LOVE Kenton Sorenson, he was one of my main inspirations when I first started (beautiful craftsmanship), and I have to say, when comparing keep in mind you're looking at his $95 wallet vs, 55$ retail (possibly as low as 35$ on massdrop).
When the materials, craftsmanship and everything else is the same, and you can still almost buy 3 Hand and Sew wallets for the price of one of his... I think it's an easy choice.
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Beside that, it looks very solid, I really like the finish on the edges.
Here is a nice example of a minimalistic, vegetable tanned leather wallet with neat logo:
It's kenton sorenson USA, KS Classic Natural Wallet Of course it's pricey, I just put it here to show what I mean, and for inspiration.