Now I Store Like This!

[subbu68]

After reading some responses to my post https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/275493-how-do-you-store-your-pens/ decided to keep my pens vertical. I do not store them for long without using.

 

Untitled by subbu68, on Flickr

 

by subbu68, on Flickr

 

by subbu68, on Flickr

 

A used coffee tin made of cardboard, a sheet of thick craft paper, a piece of thermcole. Thermocole was cut into round shape and inserted into the coffee tin that has a metal base so that bottom of barrels do not get scratched. You can see in the last photo. Cardboard was cut to the height of the space in the tin and folded (fanfold) and inserted two such pieces into the tin. This separates the pens from each other. No hitting each other and scratching.

 

May not be a new idea but it just struck me and did it. I will ask my daughter to decorate the tin with her artwork later. And may be patent it

[Bo Bo Olson]

Well I have five cups of different color, for the ink color in the pen, for those in rotation.

 

I do have a cherry wood two drawered glass topped pen cabinet, and a couple of very nice cigar humidors; one burl veneer, the other solid walnut.

Keep your eye out in flea markets and Ebay for cigar humidors. You can make an internal frame and there are felted rill sheets that can be cut to fit. You should be able to make a fine three layered pen box that way.

Something I've put off too long.

[RMN]

I like the cardboard inset idea

 

Styrofoam or other soft springy bottom is also wise....

 

 

D.ick

[FayeV]

Nice way to keep pens from touching!

I must admit that my pens sit in a cup and mingle. I may give your method a try.

[Downcelot]

It's "naturally good"! I really need to ditch me cups and do something like yours.

[Sasha Royale]

What looks like an old can is actually a thoughtful system. I might consider adding ballast to the bottom, as defense

against tipping. I will consider a similar arrangement for my desk, using a large, earthen tankard.

[Kosmic-kowgirl]

very clever! love it!

[inkstainedruth]

I'll admit that I don't put any sort of insert to protect the pens (I use an empty cocoa canister for pens in rotation). I just stick them in. If they jostle against each other, it doesn't bother me. So yeah, my expensive Pelikan M400 is gonna bang up against a stainless steel Parker Vector and a vintage Vacumatic and my ebonite Konrad. And, yeah, they may get some scuffs and scratches. If I was worried about keeping them "pristine", I'd have them in glass-top display cases. Which means I wouldn't have them at all -- because I'm not a "C-worder" collector. And for those of you who are -- kindly refrain from giving me grief over this: they're mine, I paid for them (except for the ones I was given) and I'll do as I please with my property.

Sigh. Where did that soapbox come from? ["'Soapy'! Have you migrated here from off the Rialto? And after all these years? Good Soapy. Now let me just see if I've got any Purina Soapbox Chow lying around...."]

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

PS -- Those little cardboard inserts really are a great idea, subbu68 -- but when I'm sticking pens away at night in the dark (so I don't wake the hubby up) they wouldn't last too long in my house....

[Thier.]

Well done ....

[Frank C]

That is a very creative way to store your pens. Thanks for the suggestions.

[bsenn]

What looks like an old can is actually a thoughtful system. I might consider adding ballast to the bottom, as defense

against tipping. I will consider a similar arrangement for my desk, using a large, earthen tankard.

 

Seems a tossup what to use a tankard for - pens or its original intended use...