Our Story

It started with a mallet.

Back in 2014, I got obsessed with building a wallet that did exactly two things. Hold your cards. Hold your cash. Nothing else.

I was studying manufacturing engineering at BYU and had access to the machine shop; waterjet, laser cutter, the works. I started with cardstock to get the dimensions right. Then cardboard. Then leather. Then wood with red elastic. Then a sewn fabric version, thread still hanging off it. Then finally aluminum.

The first ten frames came off the waterjet cutter. The edge quality wasn't consistent enough, so I scrapped those and moved to laser cutting. That's the version that worked.

The design was simple by intention: two sides, two jobs. One side sized exactly to credit card dimensions. Other side sized exactly for bills folded in half. Aircraft-grade 6061-T6 aluminum frame. High-quality knitted elastic strap. No screws. No mechanisms. Nothing that can strip, break, or wear out.

For the logo, I ordered a metal stamp from a supplier in Columbia, MT and hit it with a mallet on every single Kickstarter wallet. FRA on one line. MED on the next. Rectangle around it. hundreds of wallets, all by hand.

Funded the Kickstarter at 5x goal. Sold thousands of wallets after the Kickstarter all still stamped by hand. Got busy, shut it down. Been carrying the same wallet for 10 years. The frame is perfect. Never thought about it — which was the whole point.

Relaunching now. Same design. Same obsession. Made in Utah. Nothing extra.

— Brian Rea, Founder · Lehi, Utah