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I don't know. I thought maybe that was a RFID shield. Just a wild guess. Or maybe a poly strip?

Hey there! Your RFID credit card holder with the sunflower design looks so cute and unique. I love how you customized it to fit your friend's taste.

Just curious if anybody is building RFID wallets. Do you need to line every pocket or do you just need a layer in between the outside cover and the lining on the outside so when you fold it there would be a layer on both sides of the cards. I know the RFID material can't be in contact with the cards or it will become an antenna. Thanks for any input.

I have a few idea's for wallets I would like to do. With all the season's adds running, RFID protected products seams to be a big one. Does anyone know what this RFDI material is? Or where it can be bought...inexpensively? I would think our Leather Suppliers would be all over this, adding it to their kits.

I am in the process of making a large batch of lanyards, double sided using Herman oak veg tanned: one layer ⅔ oz leather and the outer is ¾ oz to give a better impression on the stamping displayed area. My issues are as follows; the time it takes to cut 2/3oz leather because my hand strap cutter has issues with cutting thin leather consistently and gluing each side perfectly to the other is currently the bottleneck of production. I have thought of ways to fix my solutions but also wanted to reach out to the community for ideas as well. First: Cut thicker(wider) strap glue then cut the allowance or 2: Create a jig where you could lay one side of the glued strap inside and then use the jig as a guide to lay the second piece on top. 3: buy Weavers manual leather strap cutter, glue both sides together and run the bonded leather sides through the machine and hopefully have a near finished product. This is for a company that uses Lanyards for RFID access to navigate through the building and will only be 100 units at this time. This project in itself will not cover the full cost of the weaver strap cutter but close enough to make it a legitimate option and would be a good investment if/when future lanyards or belts are commissioned in the future.

You're welcome to move on, you're entitled to a different opinion about anything, especially what is a scam and what is not a scam. I am allowed to reply to comments in this thread and can chose to without starting a new topic at your request. The act of putting foil in your wallet is not perpetrating a scam. The act of putting foil in your wallet, marketing/advertising is as RFID blocking and ensuring it is "the only way to keep your information safe", is in fact a scam - by definition. Hence, what I said earlier about the RFID market of products being a scam. Now move along.

RFID Protection? With normal logic wouldn’t a piece of aluminum foil sandwiched between leather work??? Just saying it’s like a thinner aluminum wallet

If you go to an insurance agent in Alaska and ask for snake insurance and they knowingly sell it to you "for peace of mind" despite there being no snakes in Alaska .. is that insurance agent scamming you? The technology is a 'scam' in itself because it has been falsely marketed. Here's the FBI's website on card skimming https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/skimming#Overview Likely this guy lost his money due to skimming but not because of RFID Skimming.But likely due to skimming where his card is inserted into a device - like an ATM or gas pump. Not through RFID skimming which RFID blockers are advertised to block against. Do I Need to Worry About RFID Protection? While it’s always a good idea to safeguard your wallet, the danger of contactless credit card thefts is overblown. Here’s why: Criminals with a reader need to be very close to scan your card. The theft is a time consuming hit-or-miss for criminals. Their victim might not even own a contactless card. The RFID chip only transmits the card number.Additional information needed for online transactions, such as the expiration date or security code, can’t be scanned. RFID cards now use encrypted one-time codes for each purchase. - https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/privacyhub/rfid-blocking/

But it ain't a 'scam' if the customer specifies or asks for it. The last wallet I made for a guy he asked for the RFID protection and wanted me to show that it worked. I asked him if he thought he needed it and he was quite definite that he wanted it and said that he reckoned his cards had been skimmed and he'd lost about £5000 and didn't want it happening again.

A scam is "A false representation of a matter of fact—whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of what should have been disclosed—that deceives and is intended to deceive another so that the individual will act upon it to her or his legal injury." RFID blocking is marketed as protection against something that isn't a threat - is a scam. Marketers are misleading customers into believing that they are at risk for a thing which they are not. They take action to buy a product with this knowledge. Its the same idea as someone selling you snake bite insurance in Alaska with a big campaign that you never know when a snake will strike. Alaska doesn't have snakes. I sorry that calling it a scam offended you.

Can I recommend a separate topic be made about the pros and cons of using RFID protection in wallets? This thread is about how to find RFID protection sheets. Whether it is a real threat or not, calling it a scam is not helpful. That implies you are taking advantage of people. No, you are just giving them something which may or may not be helpful. There is nothing nefarious about it. Sure, arguments, good ones, can be made as to whether they are necessary. But providing the protection isn't harmful in itself. If you think it doesn't work for its intended purpose, hey, it's still a wallet, right? And some will want RFID protection for peace of mind. Some baseball players wear special socks when they pitch. If it makes them feel better, what's the harm? Sometimes discussions can get divisive just based on the words we use. Calling RFID protection in wallets a scam is an example. It will immediately cause offense to those who believe in it. And that's not conducive to having a polite discussion. Just my $.02

I'll play with some payment terminals that we have which are RFID enabled. With the paypal account - you have to enter tons of information. Its very traceable. You don't just enter an email address and you get a free payment terminal.

RFID tags are used for shipping, receiving, stock control, received goods, storage yard locations, etc. Tags are read directly off the transport without workers having to unload and sort through the shipment. On construction projects, the gate person reads the cards and directs the driver to the assigned lay-down / storage area. When it is time to withdraw the items for construction, the driver drives down the lane-way, identifies the items by RFID and loads them up to deliver them to the prescribed location. It includes all types of building and construction materials. Likely, their RFID reader is more powerful than what is used at checkouts, but it is all the same principle of reading and recording data. On a side note, I have been told if you put 2 RFID cards together in your wallet, the reader gets confused. Whether this is true or not, I can't verify it. Someone should do a test and report back.

Here is the thing, a scam like that would require people to have a merchant account with valid information. It has to go through card processing and only then to a bank account. The person would have to be close enough to someone's pockets/bag to even activate it. Like very close. So close you have to about an inch on the reader. It is no different of a scam than someone taking your debit card at a restaurant, writing down the numbers and entering it on the computer later on. Fortunately, these scams don't go well because you as the customer are protected as it is fraud and you can merely chargeback, but secondly if a merchant sees numerous chargebacks, it freezes the account and refunds all the transactions. RFID is a scam because the risks and likelihood of it happening is nearly 0. Even if someone does manage to stick their terminal into your bag, maneuver the card within an inch and process a payment. You're protected through your banking and government regulations. EDIT: Forgot to mention - the space needs to be clear, so if you have more than 1 card in that 1 inch bubble 'dead space' it doesn't read. So general objects obstruct it. Clothing, bags, wallet material. https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/rfid-credit-cards-should-you-worry-about-protection/ Bankrate says RFID credit cards allow you to pay with a tap, rather than inserting or swiping your card. Special RFID-blocking wallets and sleeves, despite their popularity, generally aren’t necessary for security because the technology requires an obstruction-free environment. In other words, most materials—such as a regular wallet, a purse, or a pocket—will prevent the RFID technology from working, making it tough for a scammer to tap your card without your knowledge.

Not really a scam using blocking material Christmas before last N.I. police stopped some thieves using a store type card reader to get payments into their 'account' The thieves were doing 'sales' of about £25 a time - the card limit on contactless was £30 - and were simply going by womens' handbags in very busy & crowded shops. They passed the card reader over near the handbag and the reader took the money from the card. Police would not give full details, for obvious reasons but advised women to use a RFID card holder

Now that - is a pretty interesting idea. So yeah I could see that. To be able to just tap your wallet against the terminal. That is truly the first good argument I've heard for RFID blocking.

There are many reasons to use RFID blocking linings. One of the most common in my neck of the woods is avoiding "card clash" where you have multiple NFC-enabled cards in one wallet. Put your most commonly used ne (debit card for instance) in an unshielded outer pocket and your multiple others inside the protective cocoon of a Faraday cage and things work much smoother.

I know you're probably not asking - but RFID blocking material is a scam. Its marketing that plays into people's mind about theft. RFID is supposed to block a 'sniffing' crime. AKA - someone can 'sniff' using a RFID reader and obtain sensitive information about said card. However there isn't enough information that someone can gain by 'sniffing' your cards. So much so, they can't pinpoint a single crime to RFID sniffers. https://losspreventionmedia.com/are-rfid-blocking-wallets-necessary-to-prevent-credit-card-theft/ "So, experts point out, even if someone were to successfully use a surreptitious reader, which would need to be within inches to sniff your payment information out of thin air, they would need to crack the bank’s complex algorithm to generate a new one-time code to complete another contactless payment. Contactless payment options like Apple Pay and Android Pay use near-field communication (NFC), a version of RFID, and since they require further authentication from the user, are even more secure, say analysts." https://www.walletopia.info/educate/rfid-is-a-scam/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-i-want-christmas-certainly-isnt-rfid-credit-card-sleeve-grimes/

Hello everyone, I joined in 2018 and usually stop by a couple times a day to see what is going on. This is my first post. I believe most do not line because it is hard to get right. Wallets bend in the middle and it is hard to not end up with wrinkles in the fold. The extra cost added also comes into play. I line every wallet I make because these days I believe a RFID blocker is necessary. If you add a RFID blocker you have to cover it up with a liner. Actually If I was a customer I would not own a wallet without a RFID blocker. I guess I am just paranoid and do not want to deal with identity theft.

I personally have found that my customers have become more and more intune with the product they're purchasing. As in, they ask now if something is handstitched. The argument about strength is honestly negligible at this point, 92 wt thread on a sewing machine or .8mm ritza. Although from a marketing perspective, customers due tend to gravitate towards solutions in things that people have fears of. Like selling someone on handstitching because they have fears of losing their investment in a machine stitched wallet. The same idea as RFID blocking technology so much so that there has been zero RFID crimes. Huge market towards it. I do like the look of being able to put a larger thread on a thinner piece. We're also at the point in our business were we just sold a 300$ watch band that was laser cut and hand stitched in under an hour. I'm ok with that.

So I've seen many websites offer leather wallets that protect against RFID, I've even seen Kickstarter projects offer RFID blocking wallets. However, I've never been able to find an actual solution. I even checked the search box here and didn't really come up with anything other then some wire mesh. I figure that now that this stuff is becoming more and more popular maybe someone will know something more? I'd love to be able to prevent my credit card from being wirelessly skimmed while it's in my wallet. Cheers, Knash

looks good. is it RFID?

If you want to make your wallet or other credit/debit card holder RFID blocked, there is no need for expensive blocker stuff. I use a thin aluminium self-adhesive tape meant for plumbers to wrap around pipes. It cost me about £5 for a 50m x 5cm roll. I've High Street tested it on as many car readers as I could find, over 20 different types, and the tape blocked every time This, (not the exact same roll wot I bought https://www.toolstation.com/aluminium-foil-tape/p97723)

yea, that's some nice work. Are you gluing in that RFID holder to that flap of leather? If so I imagine you had to rough up the plastic bit of the cover? A very cool idea.