Machinist Tool Chest For Pen Storage (Lincoln Park, Mi)

[MrThoth]

If anyone's near enough to Lincoln Park, Michigan to go pick it up, this machinist's chest would make a great way to store a bunch o' pens:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/9-Drawer-Wood-Machinist-Chest-Tool-Box-Cabinet-/171497213775?pt=Tool_Boxes_Storage&hash=item27ee07cf4f

 

 

I believe it's a Clarke CMW-9 Nine-Drawer Wooden Machinist Tool Chest, a product from the UK that sells for around £120 (about $200) that I don't think is typically available in the US -- and the seller only wants $25 for it as a starting bid. I'd bid on it in a heartbeat if I were able to pick it up. Perhaps some other FPNer can take advantage of this potential major bargain.

 

 

 

[kidde]

+1

I'm too far, but that is an amazing price. Kennedy seems to be the major US brand, but you won't find one for $25. Machinist chests are sturdy and infinitely usable.

 

Thank You Thoth. Sorry, but putting a Mr before that name is difficult for my inner grammar policeman. Sort of like saying "The 'Hoi Polloi'", "The 'The Proletariat'".

 

Paul

[MrThoth]

The Kennedy chests are excellent, but I think made from metal. For me at least, wood seems more appropriate for fountain pen storage. Gerstner & Sons makes tool chests quite similar to the Clarke one posted above, but they're pretty darn expensive.

 

Gerstner also does custom orders. At some point I may contact them about that, since a custom-made pen chest would avoid the inevitable inefficiencies that result from trying to adapt a tool chest or jewelry chest to pen purposes.

 

As for my name, I certainly can't fault someone for being a grammar cop. But consider it sort of like a superhero name, and I think it works just fine. In any event I don't think I want to risk the hubris of calling myself "Thoth," in case ol' Ibis Head is in a touchy mood.

[JotterAddict62]

Maybe someone buys it and can pick it up when they go to the Michigan pen show next week.

A hop skip and a jump from there....

[kidde]

Gerstner chests become heirlooms, because they last, but usually are hard to find and pricey. Kennedy does make steel chests but, at least used to, offer an oak one. Don't tend to see anything in the old wooden chests that isn't the finest made; K&E, Starrett, Brown and Sharpe.

Your superhero comment helps, as does the thought of angering your friend. Mr it is.

 

Paul