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My Custom 3Wunder 3-Pen Case, 4 Years Later

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A little over 4 years ago I had a leather pen case made to my specification by 3Wunder.at in exchange for one of my vintage german piston fillers.

 

This has been my go to case for the last 4 years for the pens that will fit in it (my Aurora Afrika and Danitrio Mae west are too thick, and I didn't have them at the time of requesting this). Got this a few months after I first got into fountain pens.

 

The full album can be seen here https://imgur.com/a/IItrblQ with the original showcase I did four years ago here http://pens.kbeezie.com/post/showcase-3-pen-case-by-3wunder/

 

His rough plan/design

 

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Some of the initial in progress images (from his blog entry)

 

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Some of the initial photographs I took when I received it

 

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And Now.... 4 years later

 

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It develop a really nice patina, I like it!

 

Yea a better look than the "Kermit-Hodensack-Grün" (Kermit's Balls Green) he described it as when it was finished. :D Took a couple years but ended up kind of the color I was hoping it would.

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Kermit-Hodensack-Grün

 

That would be a great name for an ink.

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That would be a great name for an ink.

And if they needed to avoid trademark issues whatever the german word for 'stuff frog' in place of kermit. :P

 

Maybe Akkerman can come up with something partly as an april fools joke that they actually come thru on.

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VERY NICELY MADE! Did you actually use it everyday?

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VERY NICELY MADE! Did you actually use it everyday?

 

To answer you question, nearly two years later.

 

Yes I actually use the case everyday. It's what I use whenever I leave the house with a pen. The only case I use unless the pen I want to carry happens to be too thick for the inserts.

 

On that note, these are now "6 years later" .

 

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So is it that the leather developed a patina, or did the color wear off? I don't remember if vegetable-tanned leather takes dye in the same way as chrome-tanned leather; just that you can't stamp the chrome-tanned stuff (it just doesn't stay -- my husband and I took a leather workshop a number of years ago at the local-ish Tandy Leather when a guy we knew was the store manager.

I must say that whichever it was, IMO the current color is way nicer than the original green.

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On 2/21/2020 at 10:32 PM, inkstainedruth said:

So is it that the leather developed a patina, or did the color wear off? I don't remember if vegetable-tanned leather takes dye in the same way as chrome-tanned leather; just that you can't stamp the chrome-tanned stuff (it just doesn't stay -- my husband and I took a leather workshop a number of years ago at the local-ish Tandy Leather when a guy we knew was the store manager.

I must say that whichever it was, IMO the current color is way nicer than the original green.

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Patina, not wearing off, and has not stained anything it has ever come into contact with. So definitely patina. 

Still using it every day. 

 

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Coming up on 8 years next month. 

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On 1/25/2022 at 11:00 PM, KBeezie said:

Patina, not wearing off, and has not stained anything it has ever come into contact with. So definitely patina. 

Still using it every day. 

 

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Coming up on 8 years next month. 

 

 

Where did the 8 years go?

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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