Took my daughter to see Steve Hofstetter Thursday night and discovered she doesn't have one of those purse hanger hook thingys. So I made her these today. On the left is bocote and on the right is a lamination of (R-to-L) paduk, walnut, black palm, cherry, and a smidge of maple.

#woodturning

@tdotrob wait, what is a purse hanger hook thing? I truly don’t know. I always just toss my purse on the closest flat surface.

@Eponine I could explain but a picture is worth 1k words. ;-)

https://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKPHANG24.html

@tdotrob I was looking at the site and they have pen cases! I’ve been looking for something for my pens. Right now they’re in a pen roll, but I worry about some of them bumping into one another during transport and scratching the bodies of the pens. #CoSoPens

@Eponine I've used a few types of pen case, and make my own wooden flat boxes for the expensive pens. For bulk storage, I have a few sizes of tubes like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008RLPBFS

I recently obtained a threading jig for the lathe and want to try making round wooden pen cases with screw-top lids. At that level of effort, these would be for the expensive pens only, I think. But super cool if I can pull it off.

You made me go look at #CoSoPens - you've been busy! I'll have to start using it.

@tdotrob I was thinking something more like this https://www.pennstateind.com/store/PK-DISP64.html
The separators keep the pen barrels from bumping an scratching one another.

The individual tubes take up too much space.

@Eponine Ah, yes. That's quite a nice one. I think my needs are more modest because I never have more than a couple dozen in backstock.

By the way, did you see any fountain pen kits at PSI that looked good? I have steered clear because I do not use them and don't know anything about nibs, cartridges, etc. But I've had multiple ask and I think I need to stop declining those requests.

#CoSoPens

@tdotrob I only saw one set of fountain pens. I’m not really into rollerballs - I made an exception for @Brisse because his pens were so beautiful.

If you’re interested in trying out fountain pens, a Pilot metropolitan, Lamy Safari, or TWSBI eco are good entry level pens.

#CoSoPens

@Eponine Hehe. PSI has a BUNCH of fountain pens... but they're not the best ones in my opinion... There's one supplier, I forget which one right now, but they actually have multiple really exceptional fountain pens, and they actually carry alternate size nibs for them so you can basically build your own... I was going to get one someday for myself but it was a 200$ investment I didn't feel like making. @tdotrob

@Brisse Hmmm maybe I didn’t look enough. I’ll let you and @tdotrob make the pens, though. I like using them.

@Eponine 👍 There's a few really nice styles, I thought about adding them to the shop, but I need to restrict them... the shipping company I work with says Canada doesn't allow fountain pens... ? @tdotrob

@Brisse How odd. I see people selling and buying them on r/pen_swap all the time between Canada & the US. I know there are restrictions on shipping inks to Europe but I’ve never heard of a restriction on fountain pens to Canada, especially if they were empty. @tdotrob

@Eponine My guess is they're interpreting this and just blocking fountain pens: https://pe.usps.com/IMM_Archive/HTML/IMM_Archive_20060108/imm/immicl/immiclcd_003.html

@tdotrob

@Brisse I don’t know of many fountain pens that cost less than $5! @tdotrob

@Eponine 😂😂😂 the cheap plastic ones that they sell for kids are the only ones I know of. @tdotrob

@Brisse Kind of unrelated but I check your store periodically just to make sure my pen is still there 😂 @tdotrob

@Brisse @tdotrob And I know it’s not really ‘my’ pen but … it’s mine in spirit 😂

@Eponine I guarantee it won't sell unless it's on sale or there's a collector I haven't met yet. 😂 @tdotrob

@Brisse @tdotrob I’m kind of counting on that!