Pen Stand?

November 12, 2011

I use the vintage floral frogs as mentioned by Esterbex. I have several with different size holes. They hold the pen upright and are, somehow, attractive to my mind. Most were made during the depression and are as old or older than the pens they hold for me. Most of mine are clear glass, but I have one in green glass and one in orange carnival glass.

November 12, 2011

It took a while, but I have trained my pens to sit and stay while on the desk.

November 12, 2011

It took a while, but I have trained my pens to sit and stay while on the desk.

Teach them how to beg and you'll always know when you're almost out of ink.

November 12, 2011

It took a while, but I have trained my pens to sit and stay while on the desk.

I tried to train my pens, but that went as well as training my cat! He is on my desk as much as my pens. In fact, I am quite certain that he believes my desk, like the rest of my house, is actually his. He allows me here because I open the cat food for him. It may be that my pens allow me here because I fill them with ink. I seem to be the only one that is trained.

November 13, 2011

This vintage pen holder from the 'bay graces my desk. Shown with an OS Balance and an Illinois Bunn railroad watch.

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy241/DrMonzon/IMG_3249.jpg

November 16, 2011

I only have one FP right now but this is the stand I made for it. In a candle holder I used some plastic tubing that my pen slipped right in and I filled around it with candle wax. I like it.

November 16, 2011

I only have one FP right now but this is the stand I made for it. In a candle holder I used some plastic tubing that my pen slipped right in and I filled around it with candle wax. I like it.

Ingenious!

December 8, 2011

Hi, I like the pen stand Idea but did you line the whole you drilled with something soft. That lamy and other metal or plastic pens would scratch eventually when you put the pen in and out of the stand without protection

After a quick trip to my local hardware store and about 20 minutes of work, here it is:

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k303/mateo44/random%20pix/IMG00092-20110308-1928.jpg

Over and above its obvious good looks and top-drawer sophistication, my pen stand has several appealing characteristics (to me at least). First, it takes up virtually no usable space on the desk, running parallel to the edge. It's also expandable -- it can fill up the length of the desk with simple, modular additions (sold separately). And, it's dirt cheap -- find something better? Just toss it, or convert the galvanized steel parts to paperweights. The pictured 9-pen model ran about $8. You just screw it together following the simple instructions, and drill it through.