Making a MINIMALIST Wallet

Welcome back to the manual machine shop! In this video I’ll be making a popular everyday carry item, a low profile minimalist wallet. This will be a pretty simple wallet design including a money clip, but the machining process is anything easy. I’ll start this project like I do every project, at the drafting board, where I’ll put together a pencil drawing of the build to come. The wallet itself will be made of easy to machine 360 brass, and the clip of brushed 304 stainless steel. The body includes a fairly complicated engraved geometric pattern and to help with the engraving process I’ve created a fixture plate made of 5083 ATP (aluminum tooling plate). This project is very heavy on the vertical milling machine, but I do make one brief (and welcomed) visit to the metal lathe.

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4 responses to “Making a MINIMALIST Wallet”

  1. Hi, I was watching your video on the wallet and was amazed by the design, my current wallet is falling apart and i am looking for a new one and this would be perfect for that. I was wondering if you would sell one of those to me and what what it would cost. It would be really nice if i could walk around with one of those in my pokket.

    • Hey, Bram! Thanks for your interest! I’m actually working out the logistics of making the wallets on a larger scale. Keep an eye out for an update!

  2. So I love your youtube presentations, I am a reitred machine shop instructor and I would love to get some of your prints to build samples for the local progarm at our high school. I would like to know where to find your patroen page. I have been showing your youtube to the instructor and he shares with his students.

    Thanks

    Mike