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Grandpa wanted an extra large bifold that can hold all his stuff, including prescriptions. It's huge. Way bigger than anything I would have accepted to work on, except this was grandpa asking. He also requested a pull tab for his most used card. No finger prints left after a life time of farm work so he has trouble with most regular card slots. so: 3 regular card slots. 2 extra large card slots. 1 pull tab slot. 2 large wing pockets. 1 very large bill slot. Used this project to try french binding, skiving and multiple layers of edge painting; all for the first time. I'm probably only happy with 70% of the stitches. I really need to get better with awl use. Outside is a 4/5 oz veg tan(grandpa wanted durable but really I should have gone thinner), dark brown is a mystery veg tan my uncle gave me that burnishes surprisingly well, and the black is glazed pig skin from tandy(soooo also mystery). Poly thread. Tandy edge flex and sanding and edge flex and sanding and edge and sanding and polishing, etc etc. I did them so many times and still never got the results I wanted. Layers upon layers. Oh well, should be durable. That's 12 layers of leather when not counting the t-slots and folded over edges. Really I think grandpa needs a zippered wallet or something. Or maybe 2 slim wallets. One for medical info and another money and phone numbers he can't remember. Critique away. I need to start cutting up the pigskin into a million card slots I guess. Not sure what else I'd want to use it on.