Cuben wallet

[Jason Hung]

Anyone want to save little bit of weight on the wallet? I know you can spend all your dollar to keep your wallet light weight lol!

welcome to leave some comments
Make from old style Cuben CN9K.5

This is a DIY prototype

[omar M]

absolutely love this – where do i get one?

very impressive

[jeffrey bennett]

I love it! Great job! More pics please.

[James Patsalides]

Nice! Any chance you could publish some construction notes!? I have a bunch of little offcuts left over from making my tarp… and I'd LOVE to make one for myself! What a neat (if a little geeky, you have to admit it) project!

[Jared Dilg]

Very nice! I love the size of my All-Ett wallet but the Spinnaker fabric has blown out in the corners after one year. Is that a sticker or heat transfer graphic in the corner? Looks great.

[Kyle Crawford]

I like the design. I wonder how well it will hold up.

[Lau Chi Man Vincent]

Hi moma,

More details please~

[Dan @ Durston Gear]

It should hold up pretty well. CN9K.5 is tough stuff. It weighs 80.5g per meter 2 which is roughly 3oz/yd. That's twice the weight of the durable cuben packs being made (ie. Zpacks).

[Jason Hung]

the size of this wallet was modify from a Prada wallet!
As the wallet on market was using either leather or 600D so it much thicker then this Cuben cloth.
i do make 2 other prototype before get this final version.

Putting it to gether is easy by using double side tape. but stitching it is little bit hard as the surface of the cuben is very slippy specially stitching the edge of the wallet as layer overlapping it create a thickness around 4mm., so is little bit hard to controll well.

tailoring it and stick it togeher is not take time but stitching it nicely is a problem and take time, so i do not know shall i put it on market.

from the look people will feel like you are using a paper wallet!! [specially my wife!]
But the actually hand feeling is like using a bullet proof plastic bag! super light weight and very thin!

this materail actually for sail making. so limited product can be produce if i decide to launch this product. as North Sail purchase the Cuben Corp, so Cuben Corp wont sell any sail grade cuben to anybody!

Cheers
J

[Benjamin Moryson]

Very nice work.
It's perfect for the trail, but where do you but the coins

[Jason Hung]

Coins is too heavy mate joking;p !

i am living in Hong Kong, Hong Kong is using less coins now as they have a Cash card like the UK oyster card system using this card can do purchasing in 7-11 or paying fees on transport. So we are using less coin now. Therefore i didn't put any extra coin pouch in the wallet.

[Lawson Kline]

"North Sail purchase the Cuben Corp, so Cuben Corp wont sell any sail grade cuben to anybody!"

Please explain!

[Bill Fornshell]

Lawson,

I talked to North Sail when they first bought Cuben. What they told me was that North Sail will sell to sailmakers only and Cuben Corp will sell the rest of the world that is using Cuben for other than sails.

[Sam Sockwell]

So are you selling these, or just displaying your creation- not bad, by the way. Sam.

[Travis Leanna]

I'd be interested in one! IF you were to sell some, is it possible to give a ballpark figure on price?

[Jason Hung]

price estimated USD40 each

[Lau Chi Man Vincent]

So cool.

moma, when can i get one?

[Travis Leanna]

I'm down for one. Just post some details about buying if you get around to making some to sell!

[David Yasuda]

Put me down for purchase when you go into production. I'd be glad to PayPal a deposit.

[Jason Hung]

just get a weight today
And weight the CUben wallet it just only 19.7g / 0.69oz!!

also attached a deer leather wallet how a leather wallet normally weight!

19.7g!

a deer leather wallet weight around:

thx for support.
Currently i m busy not able to product any yet
In Aug or Sept will be more free.
will let you guys know when product is ready to market.

[Philip Trivitt]

Very nice work. I'd be in for one. I use a Prada wallet I got on the Bay and it's the best I've ever had.

[Franco Darioli]

For the ones that are thinking of making something like it, take a look at this one :

http://www.all-ett.com/productdetails.asp?prodID=12
it's about 10g (my scale works on 5g increments)
Works for me.
Franco

[Jason Hung]

i do try making with 1.5oz spinnaker cloth, but it just feel like too soft for me, the out come like a soft bag instead of a wallet wallet like.

Cheer
J

[Jason Hung]

Dear all,

1st lot of 10pcs wallet is ready!

pls refer to the selling post below

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=38440

thx for support.

Jason

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