Pen carrier: carry about 30+ pens around the house...

[jonathan7007]

I want to carry about 30+ pens around the house and I am harming the finish of my pens using jelly jars. I searched here at FPN and looked at all 4 pages of hits to my search... nothing.

 

One regular enjoyable use of my pens is frequent get-out-the-vote postcard writing sessions. A psychiatrist probably has a name for this: I vary ink color, nib style, etc. throughout the group of cards so I choose way too many pens to bring to the table. Some good times to get up out of my home office to write cards: broadcast baseball games, less-demanding television dramas, quiet time in the living room, or breezy sunlight on the deck with my wife...

 

Thinking back to years of photography projects with graphics arts designers, many sported carriers for their markers that held one marker in each slot. Something like that with a bonus that such a carrier would be made out of a material that would not scratch my pens. A long wrap or briefcase carrier isn't the right thing.

 

How about this, folks?

 

[A Smug Dill]

4 hours ago, jonathan7007 said:

Thinking back to years of photography projects with graphics arts designers, many sported carriers for their markers that held one marker in each slot. Something like that with a bonus that such a carrier would be made out of a material that would not scratch my pens.

 

Here's a cheap one I bought from China by way of AliExpress:

 

(The pens shown are all Jinhao 51A fountain pens.)

 

They come in different colours, and different number of slots. The elastic loops are functionally, and in fact, carriers that are made out of a material that would not scratch the exterior finish of pens, even if some may think they are inelegant or just not agreeable aesthetically.

 

Of course, you can get more expensive, larger, roomier, made-of-leather pen folders of the sort from retailers in Europe and North America. My wife has an Aston Leather 20-pen folder, and the brand also has a 40-pen version of it. Galen Leather also has a 40-pen model. I'm sure you can find more options than those if you look.

[jonathan7007]

Thank you, Smug Dill. It turns out that the Internet provides better choices for what I was looking for if I type "marker caddy". I already have a zippered case with loops such as the nice one you showed. Switching pens in and out adds too much time to write the message on a set of cards.

Here's what I found - which lacks only the carry handle, but can spin: