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Here's my latest little project, just a real quick one done last night at the request of my local stationary store owner. These will be for her calligraphy class, for the students to use. This particular version is a prototype, although it's completely finished. Upon testing this one out, she requested that I make it a couple inches wider to provide a more solid support for the pen, so I'll be making another one tonight that is a tad longer.

 

Wood here is cherry, with an outdoor semi-gloss polyurethane finish. I think I'll be making a couple more, for Herbin and Noodler's bottles probably. And I think the next version will have a couple small holes between the bottle and the pen rest to stand up a converter or cartridge for easier syringe filling.

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150801_103617_zpsbcuoasni.jpg

 

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Thanks! I'll have a couple photos of the new version (longer, and this one is maple because it was the next drop end I grabbed) this afternoon when the finish completes drying. :)

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And here's the finished new one! The two on the back of the truck more accurately depict the finished colour, the fluorescent lights in my shop kind of sap the vibrancy of the wood.

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150802_124127_zpshshxessr.jpg

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150802_124138_zpsgryv1oxk.jpg

 

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Beautiful in its simplicity. I love the clean design, how it stabilizes the ink bottle - and the polyurethane will be impervious to ink spills, won't it?

Suggestion: If you do the version that you mentioned above where you bore holes for cartridge or converter, go all the way through. Otherwise they'll collect dust and debris and will be difficult to clean out.

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I wouldn't want to try it for long-term resistance, but a spill should be easy to wipe away with no damage. I went with an outdoor-grade polyurethane for that purpose, actually. I've also sanded and multiple-coated both of these sufficiently that the surface is extremely smooth, which should also help quite a bit to keep it clean.

 

That's a very good point, I'll give that a shot. I wouldn't think it should be *too* difficult to clean out, given that you can flip it over and give it a tap on the desktop to bring stuff back out, but why have the problem at all if I can avoid it?

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Wow, that is some nice work!

 

I use an old piece of two by four and drill holes to match the diameters of the pen barrels as close as possible. I use spade bits and set the drill press so I get a small exit hole so one can use a paper clip to clean out the holes. I use mostly Platinum Preppies and Noodler's Ahabs that have been converted to eyedropper configuration.

 

Keep up the good work!

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If you want those to look *really* nice, take a pilot drill pass with a 3/32nd, then come back with a Forstner of the desired size and let the pilot follow the first hole. Makes for a really nice-looking, flat-bottom pocket. :)

 

And thank you!

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And here's the finished new one! The two on the back of the truck more accurately depict the finished colour, the fluorescent lights in my shop kind of sap the vibrancy of the wood.

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150802_124127_zpshshxessr.jpg

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150802_124138_zpsgryv1oxk.jpg

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150802_124422_zps6bq3addm.jpg

I really like this design with room for 2 Herbin 1667 bottles. Can you make me one please?

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Sure, I can do that. I'm actually working on a Herbin stand right now for another member! :)

 

This is still in construction and unfinished, but it gets the idea across. I can easily use the pocket dimensions here and adjust the design to match the all-one-piece layout. Would you like it in maple, like the pictures you've quoted there? :)

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150831_221507_zpsm9sos5sv.jpg

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150831_221533_zpsi9bezh9v.jpg

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150831_221543_zpsk5tcti2r.jpg

 

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Thanks! I rather like how that one came out myself. :) It was just supposed to be just a prototype for a version with four pockets and a single pen, to display all the special-edition Herbin inks... but I'm liking that single-pocket design enough that I might just decide to make some of these too. :) The pocket on this one was the experimental bit, the square corners on the Herbin bottle presented me some challenges to machine properly.

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Here's how the full-up four-pocket version came out! Unfortunately, I only have one ink bottle of the right shape for this, so I can't show it off fully loaded. But I like how it came out here anyway. :)

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150902_171736_zpshkgltmxz.jpg

 

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p603/Komitadjie/IMG_20150902_171841_zpsrjmc1w05.jpg

 

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I've just got into woodworking and this is my first project, a sort of test run as it were. I love the old English ink stands but I wanted something specifically for fountain pens.

 

 

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