Wallet / Ridge
The Ridge Wallet is two machined metal plates drawn together by an elastic band, made in aluminium, titanium or carbon fibre. Cards load from the side and fan out when pushed from below with the thumb, holding one to roughly twelve; a money clip or cash strap screws onto the back plate for notes. The elastic is the only part that wears, and it is sold separately, which tells you where the design expects to fail and how cheaply it is fixed; everything else is built to last and backed for life. RFID blocking is inherent in the metal rather than a liner that degrades, so the protection does not wear out with the wallet.
Design intent
- +A two-plate body with a single replaceable elastic makes the wallet's lifespan effectively open-ended: material honesty about where wallets fail, not a slogan, with the one wear part sold on its own.
- +RFID protection comes from the metal plates themselves rather than a separate liner, removing the failure point where fabric wallets lose their shielding as the liner ages.
Trade-offs
- -Reaching a card means pushing and fanning the stack, slower than the discrete slots of a soft wallet; past roughly six cards retrieval gets fiddlier.
- -The stack is undifferentiated, with no organisation between cards, so finding one by feel depends on keeping a consistent order.
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The Ridge Wallet is two machined metal plates drawn together by an elastic band, made in aluminium, titanium or carbon fibre. Cards load from the side and fan out when pushed from below with the thumb, holding one to roughly twelve; a money clip or cash strap screws onto the back plate for notes. The elastic is the only part that wears, and it is sold separately, which tells you where the design expects to fail and how cheaply it is fixed; everything else is built to last and backed for life. RFID blocking is inherent in the metal rather than a liner that degrades, so the protection does not wear out with the wallet.
Design intent
- +A two-plate body with a single replaceable elastic makes the wallet's lifespan effectively open-ended: material honesty about where wallets fail, not a slogan, with the one wear part sold on its own.
- +RFID protection comes from the metal plates themselves rather than a separate liner, removing the failure point where fabric wallets lose their shielding as the liner ages.
Trade-offs
- -Reaching a card means pushing and fanning the stack, slower than the discrete slots of a soft wallet; past roughly six cards retrieval gets fiddlier.
- -The stack is undifferentiated, with no organisation between cards, so finding one by feel depends on keeping a consistent order.
