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Alright, hello, and thank you to anyone who can point me in the right direction. So, recently I have started working with leather and I just want to master making wallets, but I'm confused as to how people do card slots. I've been following some people on Instagram and have been inspired by their work - Maybe someone could tell me how they do their card slots? Here are the examples I'm looking at: So judging by the stitching around the card slots, I believe that each slot has been cut so that each piece can line up with each other where I assume there is only two layers on the edge, a back and all the card slots lined up. Here's a T-slot! So, at this point I'm thinking, OK - Make T-slots, easy... But when I made a wallet there were "tightness" issues where the card slots at the back worked fine, but the card slots at the front were very tight - SO, do people make different sized card slots for the first, second, third and fourth card slot? Another side note, Mattnudi from this T-slot photo told me that he glues two pieces of leather together 0.5m leather x 2. IS this common practice as well?! Right moving on... Here's my biggest confusion.... So obviously this wallet is layered and T-slots are not used. I wonder if their are two pieces of leather glued together for each slot as well. Anyway, I have big problems with T-slots and whether they should all be the same measurements, and if so how do I avoid tight card slots? And how can I make non-t-slots viable without super ugly edges? Was going to include edge tips as well in this - Anyone know a good edge paint product? Sam

I make belts and wallets for the Vets at the Va hospital. Looking for the pre-made credit card part of the wallet so I can make them quicker. I do not have a sewing machine to do it and hand stitching takes lots of time, not as neat. Not the plastic inserts the one that are sewn in interior leather. Need a vendor that sells them. Thanks

I have mostly made single card slot stuff up until now, but I am interested in making some wallets with multiple card slots that overlap each other like you find in most commercial wallets. I've seen some people do this so that the edges lay flat still. Hollows Leather has a lot of fantastic examples of this, but how do you do it without things getting super thick?