What Do You Keep Your Pens In?

[bowyorang]

The reason I ask is I'm lookin for something that I can use to hold a few pens beside my chair in the living room on my little table. That's where I do most of my writing besides at church. I don't have real expensive pens that I feel need to be kept in cases but I don't want to just lay them around to get knocked off and lost either. I am just wanting a few that are easily accessible. Something a little more original than a coffee mug preferably.

What do you usually keep your in?

[slide13]

Nock lookout case. Really nice quality and protection for a super affordable price.

[SujiCorp12345]

I keep my daily carry in a 3 pen case by Franklin-Cristoph, but for pens I just use at home, I keep in a mug.

[aussielondon]

I keep mine in a coffee mug, not sure why, but one day I saw my coffee mug empty and put a pen in it.

[Icywolfe]

Aston leather sleeve.

 

And my cargo pants.

 

Also the 2 cups on my desk.

[Vipersdad]

A used leather dice cup on the end table next to my chair, 3-pen case in my Duluth Pack satchel, 3 or 4 random pens next to the computer. The dice cup works great and is soft on the pen bodies.

 

V.

[Synthy Pelikan]

In a Rhodia pencil case:

 

http://i.imgur.com/BCuN1ZD.jpg

[Tas]

Nock lookout case. Really nice quality and protection for a super affordable price.

 

Same, highly recommended.

When they're not in my trousers or on my desk, they're in my Nock.

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_nock_paris.jpg

[Angela]

I use an eyeglasses case (a hinged case) to corral 2 or 3 on my desk. I can keep it open if I am actively using the pens in it or close the lid if I am walking away from my desk. I also use a variety of pen sleeves and cases, and I use a metal bellows as a pen cup.

[KBeezie]

Inked pens in this 3Wunder case which I use to carry around, otherwise I have specific pocket pens that I put in my pocket naked (Al Sport, Petit1 etc).

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/3wunder/initial.jpg

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/3wunder/open.jpg

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/3776/bourgogne/cased.jpg

 

For now if I keep my un-inked pens that have a more delicate body in a pen wrap (mainly because the leather strap has already started cracking even up to the beginning of the strap, so I just place it in a drawer).

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/circuitwrap/opened.jpg

 

The rest of the pens are either in a 10-pen tray or if they're the cheapies like the Jinhaos/etc they're in a zipper case with elastic bands.

 

At home inked, typically like so:

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/shares/cup_sept_2014.jpg

Edited September 6, 2014 by KBeezie

[blINK]

I just ordered a Nock co Lookout. Hopefully it will be delivered today. Those are for the pens in my bag that I am taking with me on any given day.

 

At home, I have a 24 pen tray that I bought from the eBay seller who was selling the NOS Skrip Peacock. Apparently these were the trays they used to move pens around the Sheaffer factory. They are stackable so (heaven forbid) the collection continues to grow, I can stack another tray on top.

Edited September 6, 2014 by blINK

[Buzz_130]

I have two five pen wraps that I use for inked pens. One is from Levenger and the other is from Pilot. I can keep track of both the number of pens that should have been in the case as well as location of all the pens in the wrap.

 

Buzz

[Jackson]

I have two five pen wraps that I use for inked pens. One is from Levenger and the other is from Pilot. I can keep track of both the number of pens that should have been in the case as well as location of all the pens in the wrap.

 

Those Levenger 5-pen wraps are nice, although I wish the newer ones still had the flap my older one has, so that pens can't fall out.

[bsenn]

Nomadic PE-10 from jetpens works great! Holds quite a few pens and pencils, lead containers, and other stuff. Has individual slots so the only part of the pens which might touch are the clips.

 

A close second is the Nomadic PE-06, which is a nice case, again with individual slots. Problem is it could be about an inch longer, as most pens stick out of the slots a little ways so could rub on each other. I tend to use it more for pencils, ballpoints and markers.

 

Both the Nomadic cases I have are very well made and have held up to being dragged around in my backpack or briefcase.

 

Brian

[inkstainedruth]

For the pens in rotation:

At home I keep them in a metal canister that used to have cocoa mix in it. That used to be for *all* my pens until I got too many pens to fit . Yeah, some of the pens probably are getting scratched up a tad, but I'm not a C-worder: my pens are to use, not to sit in a glass case being expensive tchotchkes. On the go, depending on how many I have with me, there is a 2 pen leather case I got from Parker (LOONG story) and a sort of heavy paper one -- they fit nicely in pockets on the outside of my purse, so I can keep the pens upright. If I need to have more than 4 or 5 inked up (really long pens like the Kaweco brush pens and the Noodler's ebonite Konrad tend to get stuck outside the holders, just in the pockets) I have one of the 3 pen leather zipper cases that Fountain Pen Hospital was selling a couple of Christmases ago for $20. Sorry now that I didn't buy a second one.

For pens *not* in rotation:

I have some relatively inexpensive 24 pen cases that I picked up at my local Rockler's, in the pen-turning department. I originally had two (one for modern pens, one for vintage pens) but found that I had to break down and get a third one. A couple of pens (ones that need repairs, like new sacs, or -- in one case -- some sort of work on the cracked cap, but given it's a Guanleming demonstrator I'm not sure it's worth the effort) are in my tools kit (one of those tackle-style boxes for art supplies, although I'm now starting to wonder if I should have bought the next size up...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[SuperNib44]

I keep mine in a wooden cup on my desk. That way they are stored upright to deter them from leaking.

[janelle]

My pens at home live in 2 wooden cigar boxes, one for vintage and one for modern. They don't have fancy inserts; I just lined them with hand cloths. My Noodlers pens are in a fabric pen wrap. And the pens that go with me through the day are in a 4-pen Van der Spek case from La Couronne du Comte.

 

I also find stray pens in various places as I wander through my house. Someday I'll try to track their migration patterns, as I'm never really sure how they travel from one place to the next.

[dickydotcom]

A wooden glass topped two tier display case for those not currently in use.

A 12 pen leather wallet on my desk.

Two 2 pen leather holder and one fabric single pen holder in my messenger bag for work.

 

Dick D

[Unky]

On the table next my couch, I keep a pen in a Ken Edwards fish shaped pen holder.

[bullet08]

at home, they are in my patrol cup from woodbadge course. i only carry 1 pen and it's in my left pocket along with a pack of smoke and my cell phone.