Is This The Best Box For Fountain Pens In History?

[XYZZY]

I just stumbled across something similar.  This is just the base unit, you'd still need to do work on trays to turn it into pen storage, but that might be just a matter of getting trays from go pens?

 

https://garrettwade.com/product/solid-beech-crafts-storage-box

[rizo]

On 1/15/2023 at 6:59 PM, XYZZY said:

I just stumbled across something similar.  This is just the base unit, you'd still need to do work on trays to turn it into pen storage, but that might be just a matter of getting trays from go pens?

 

https://garrettwade.com/product/solid-beech-crafts-storage-box

I think making the trays is simple. You can either make them homemade with small wooden sticks and fabric or have a carpenter do a job like the one in the first post.

 

Look this homade box in a spaniard forum https://estilograficas.mforos.com/2137814/11709778-bricolaje-casero/

[Paul-in-SF]

Since you asked (if that is the best box for fountain pens) I'm going to intrude with a partial negative answer. I think those kinds of boxes are great for moving pens from place to place, and for displaying the pens wherever you take them. For people (like me) who don't move their pens around or display them, they might prefer a stationary storage unit with drawers, so that they don't have to take up so much room to get something out of the bottom drawer. Machinists tool chests are good for this, because they have a lot of shallow drawers, and for the drawers that aren't shallow, there is room to stack pen trays. I found a smallish one, under 13" high, that was grungy and smelled, and I cleaned it up and fitted it out to hold a little over 200 pens. I thought that would be enough. Ha ha, it was overflowing less than a year later. 

[XYZZY]

20 hours ago, Paul-in-SF said:

Since you asked (if that is the best box for fountain pens) I'm going to intrude with a partial negative answer. I think those kinds of boxes are great for moving pens from place to place, and for displaying the pens wherever you take them. For people (like me) who don't move their pens around or display them, they might prefer a stationary storage unit with drawers, so that they don't have to take up so much room to get something out of the bottom drawer. Machinists tool chests are good for this, because they have a lot of shallow drawers, and for the drawers that aren't shallow, there is room to stack pen trays. I found a smallish one, under 13" high, that was grungy and smelled, and I cleaned it up and fitted it out to hold a little over 200 pens. I thought that would be enough. Ha ha, it was overflowing less than a year later. 

 

I'm currently trying to rationalize needing a large Gerstner chest