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A while ago our friend and fellow Fountain Pen Networker My63 made two pen trays for the side drawer on one of my travel desks/writing slopes. Here they are, home to many of my pens.

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How do you lift them out?

But very nice desk!

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I need a clue

 

 

but lovely trays!

If I give you a clue, once I reveal my flaw you will feel as stupid as I do. Trays work fine, but would be much better but for one simple change in their design.

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Do you have to take the entire drawer out to get to the bottom tray?

Bingo! That's it!! One gold star for chunya!!

 

The drawer is really shallow but with a lot of wasted space with just one tray. It took quite a bit of measuring and remeasuring to make sure they would both fit. I never even gave a thought about accessing the lower tray.

 

Still, not bad, good infact. But would have been so much better if I had given it more thought.

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I think I understood that the bottom tray is completely covered by the top one. Hence my question: how do you get it out. But I have an idea for a solution, too: if you fasten some ribbon to the bottom of the top tray, it should lift out easily and you can get to the bottom tray.

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Bingo! That's it!! One gold star for chunya!!

 

The drawer is really shallow but with a lot of wasted space with just one tray. It took quite a bit of measuring and remeasuring to make sure they would both fit. I never even gave a thought about accessing the lower tray.

 

Still, not bad, good infact. But would have been so much better if I had given it more thought.

Can you send the gold star via snail mail rather than electronic, I want to wear it when I go back to work in September ..... :)

 

 

Only a minor error in the design, I could live with it quite easily.

 

I hate to refer to threads that I started, but I started one a few weeks back about a nice desk stand of rosewood and Tunbridgeware, with a small built in writing slope. After I'd spent a few minutes cleaning it I realised that it could also have been designed slightly better. In order to use the slope and also to get to the lower deck, you have to take the drawer completely out. Pretty much your problem!

 

So nothing is ever really original,not even our mistakes!

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I think I understood that the bottom tray is completely covered by the top one. Hence my question: how do you get it out. But I have an idea for a solution, too: if you fasten some ribbon to the bottom of the top tray, it should lift out easily and you can get to the bottom tray.

Not sure that would work (but I really am a technical novice) as I think the top tray is too long. If it were say 5 cm shorter it would probably allow you to lift it out with the drawer still in place?

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Best would be to have 2 half sized top trays. You could lift one out and slide the other one.

 

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I think I understood that the bottom tray is completely covered by the top one. Hence my question: how do you get it out. But I have an idea for a solution, too: if you fasten some ribbon to the bottom of the top tray, it should lift out easily and you can get to the bottom tray.

There are pieces of ribbon, one at each end. But, I still have to pull the drawer all the way out to get to the bottom tray. Still, not a major problem but one that was so easy fot me to avoid.

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Can you send the gold star via snail mail rather than electronic, I want to wear it when I go back to work in September ..... :)

 

 

Only a minor error in the design, I could live with it quite easily.

 

I hate to refer to threads that I started, but I started one a few weeks back about a nice desk stand of rosewood and Tunbridgeware, with a small built in writing slope. After I'd spent a few minutes cleaning it I realised that it could also have been designed slightly better. In order to use the slope and also to get to the lower deck, you have to take the drawer completely out. Pretty much your problem!

 

So nothing is ever really original,not even our mistakes!

Doh!

 

Don't you just hate it when that happens? Oh, well.

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Best would be to have 2 half sized top trays. You could lift one out and slide the other one.

 

D.ick

That's what I should have had done. But again, far from a fatal flaw. I meant for the bottom try to be storage for unlinked pens and the upper tray for dip pens for use with the desk.

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Thanks TinJapan

That is a fantastic writing slope you have there I am so pleased that the trays fit.

I have been this problem some thought and the solution to the problem is to cut the top tray in half that way the top tray could be lifted out one piece at a time.

Thanks again

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Yep, that would be the solution. I am looking for some one locally to do a variety of wood work. When I find such a person, I may ask them to cut the tray in two. Not a major problem really. Just a really nice to have feature that I was upset at myself for not thinking of before hand.

 

Thanks again, they do the job I needed them to do.

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If you were to cut off part of the sides at the back of the top tray, would you then not be able to lift and pull it out without opening the drawer all the way? And of course part of the back. You could have a step in height, or have it change gradually. Then if you lift the front part and pull forward, it could slide out. It would be less drastic than cutting in half...

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