natezero386At least shipping to Australia is cheap. I may buy a few so I can give them to good friends, colleagues, mistresses and strangers on the street. Quite affordable and great value for money.
natezero386Wow. You weren't kidding! A quick google search brings up the market price of 6061 T6 aircraft-grade aluminium at 4000$ per metric ton on the high end, which would make 86 g of aluminium (the weight of this wallet) ~0.35$. Even if we're generous and assume that the wallet is carved from an aluminium block ten times its mass, we're still only talking about 3.50$ in raw aluminium per wallet.
AndrewLekashmanI would absolutely be down for bulk material drop!
I am sure the point Natezero386 and lacoizumi were trying to make is that the cost of machining far exceeds the cost of material, and the price is indeed fair for such a finely machined item.
dorkvaderExactly. If you look to their kickstarter page, you'll see they actually uploaded a video of one of their wallets being CNC'd (
). According to the description on that video it takes a whopping three hours to machine one of these wallets, and that's before they've polished, sand blasted, and anodized the wallet itself.
dorkvaderNo. I meant that $135 is absolutely ridiculous for a wallet, and I know for a fact no one voted for this. Machining something is nowhere near expensive enough to justify that price, and even if it was signed by every one of the Beatles and hand polished by Barack Obama it would still be the most ludicrous price I'd ever seen.