What does your desk/work area look like? Do you keep your fountain pens on it?

[penwash]

Desk and pen display

I'd like to know about the camera on the left side, please. It looks like a Leica Oskar Barnack prototype.

[datainadequate]

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This is the "writing area" of my desk at work. Some of my fountain pens live on the desk, most live in a case in the desk drawer. The desk is usually more cluttered than this.

[Chi Town]

Here are two pictures of my messy desk quite a few years ago. Right now it's a nightmare! Sorry about the pics! My desk takes up 70% of my room, ha, ha, ha......

[Wahl]

Desk and pen display

I'd like to know about the camera on the left side, please. It looks like a Leica Oskar Barnack prototype.

Hi Penwash, it´s a Leica If (1951-1956), which I inherited from my father in law.

[R.A. Stewart]

.... I think they now believe I am a bit eccentric lol. It's a mixed bag with others. Some can't stand to hear my small collection of wind up travel alarm clocks tick tocking non-stop ( I love it!) and others like to write with my desktop fountain pens and feather quill. So I thought I would post a photo of my desktop just like it is.

Great desk. Yes, I'd say you are maybe a bit eccentric. I think this is a forum where that quality is recognized as rare and valuable. I miss having a wind-up travel alarm! May I ask where you got (or get) yours?

... and yes the center drawer has ink stains in it.

I love to see ink stains on or in an old desk. I grew up with ink-stained desks. It seems right.

Here are two pictures of my messy desk quite a few years ago. Right now it's a nightmare! Sorry about the pics! My desk takes up 70% of my room, ha, ha, ha......

Chi Town (Chicago connections?), you call your desk messy. Hahahahaha! ... It's just as well I don't have any pictures of mine. Actually, right now my work desk is a folding table, as our building is being renovated and we are in temporary quarters. Maybe I can take a picture of my new one in a couple of months; it will probably be hours and hours, maybe even a day or two, before I have it properly covered in heaps of chaos.

I don't have a home desk. Or rather, I have one in the basement that I can't get to. And I've inherited my dad's desk, which is a really nice one, but it's in storage until I can figure out (a) how to get here from the other end of the state and (b) where I can put it when I have it.

[roguez]

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Great desk. Yes, I'd say you are maybe a bit eccentric. I think this is a forum where that quality is recognized as rare and valuable. I miss having a wind-up travel alarm! May I ask where you got (or get) yours?

Thank you! I love my clocks. I have picked them up at various antique stores or estate sales. They are very inexpensive with the most expensive being $8. I love their loud ticking.

[Dreck]

I played this in the last thread, but recently got a new desk. I stopped at a flea market after lunch with a former co-worker, and found this beautiful wooden desk for $25. This is a fairly normal amount of clutter for me. I have found that I am most efficient when I can keep things moderately organized. The pen I am using (Ranga modified model 8) is shown. The other couple pens I own are in the cup with the scissors and sharpies.
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[roguez]

I played this in the last thread, but recently got a new desk. I stopped at a flea market after lunch with a former co-worker, and found this beautiful wooden desk for $25. This is a fairly normal amount of clutter for me. I have found that I am most efficient when I can keep things moderately organized. The pen I am using (Ranga modified model 8) is shown. The other couple pens I own are in the cup with the scissors and sharpies.
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Wow! What a deal. Well done!!!

[lareine]

My desk is always a big cluttered mess of printouts and coffee mugs and general detritus. I could never find a pen right away when I wanted one, no matter how many I had there, until I bought a Platinum Carbon Black pen with a desk stand. Now I can always find a pen in a hurry, as the handle of that one pokes high above the mess

[BillPorter]

Here is where I sit to do journaling and fiddle with my fountain pens. It's our dining room table, by the way. It's been working well for me for a couple of years. The pens are sitting in a pipe rack which sort of limits me to 8 inked up pens; six in the rack, one I'm using for the journal and one over by our grocery list.

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[Lady Onogaro]

That looks so comfortable, Dreck! And the chair looks delicious.

I have to say that my desks (I have four--one at work and three in the various areas of the house) are usually cluttered. I keep tidying them up, and stuff keeps creeping onto them! I think it's because I have not found THE ONE DESK. We have a built-in computer desk area, but there's not much room for more than a computer and printer. I can't really sit and write at it.

Then there's the repro Larkin drop leaf desk. I can write at the desk, but there's not much room on the top of it, either. Next to it I have an old desk that mostly just holds stuff out where I can see it.

My desk at work is the least cluttered, but even it gets cluttered. I would write at the kitchen table, but my husband forbids it on the grounds that where I go, clutter follows. I can't blame him. I guess I'm a little like Pigpen, without the dust.

[WmEdwards]

This is mine, it usually looks like this, but with my wife's cats making periodic appearances to rearrange stuff.

[Dreck]

That looks so comfortable, Dreck! And the chair looks delicious. (snip)..

Thank you, it is! The chair was a gift several years ago from the former Academic Dean of the Bible college I attended. It is quite comfortable; both for working and napping. I've done plenty of both in the past decade! The desk measures 6' wide x 3' deep x 31" high, and moving it required removal of the top and the assistance of two burly friends who were paid handsomely in Bourbon and Scotch. The top alone was nearly 100#. Here is a better picture of the setup. I don't care much for light, or direct light (bad for books), so I had to wait until late afternoon, turn on the several dim lamps in my Study, and turn off the desk lamp (Christmas present from my mum, found at a flea market!) to get proper lighting for a picture. Oddly, the desk lamp is almost always on and the others almost always off.

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[VertOlive]

That looks so comfortable, Dreck! And the chair looks delicious. (snip)..

Thank you, it is! The chair was a gift several years ago from the former Academic Dean of the Bible college I attended. It is quite comfortable; both for working and napping. I've done plenty of both in the past decade! The desk measures 6' wide x 3' deep x 31" high, and moving it required removal of the top and the assistance of two burly friends who were paid handsomely in Bourbon and Scotch. The top alone was nearly 100#. Here is a better picture of the setup. I don't care much for light, or direct light (bad for books), so I had to wait until late afternoon, turn on the several dim lamps in my Study, and turn off the desk lamp (Christmas present from my mum, found at a flea market!) to get proper lighting for a picture. Oddly, the desk lamp is almost always on and the others almost always off.

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Love the memento mori in the corner.

[Dreck]

Love the memento mori in the corner.

Thank you. It's one of several that are in my Study. They're a good reminder for me to make the most of the time I've been graciously given. One visitor remarked that the combination of skulls, spiders, and muted colors are like Halloween year around

[R.A. Stewart]

One visitor remarked that the combination of skulls, spiders, and muted colors are like Halloween year around

One could hardly ask for a better compliment.

[Bob]

That looks so comfortable, Dreck! And the chair looks delicious. (snip)..

Thank you, it is! The chair was a gift several years ago from the former Academic Dean of the Bible college I attended. It is quite comfortable; both for working and napping. I've done plenty of both in the past decade! The desk measures 6' wide x 3' deep x 31" high, and moving it required removal of the top and the assistance of two burly friends who were paid handsomely in Bourbon and Scotch. The top alone was nearly 100#. Here is a better picture of the setup. I don't care much for light, or direct light (bad for books), so I had to wait until late afternoon, turn on the several dim lamps in my Study, and turn off the desk lamp (Christmas present from my mum, found at a flea market!) to get proper lighting for a picture. Oddly, the desk lamp is almost always on and the others almost always off.

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Love the memento mori in the corner.

Never trust someone with a desk that clean.

[VertOlive]

That looks so comfortable, Dreck! And the chair looks delicious. (snip)..

Thank you, it is! The chair was a gift several years ago from the former Academic Dean of the Bible college I attended. It is quite comfortable; both for working and napping. I've done plenty of both in the past decade! The desk measures 6' wide x 3' deep x 31" high, and moving it required removal of the top and the assistance of two burly friends who were paid handsomely in Bourbon and Scotch. The top alone was nearly 100#. Here is a better picture of the setup. I don't care much for light, or direct light (bad for books), so I had to wait until late afternoon, turn on the several dim lamps in my Study, and turn off the desk lamp (Christmas present from my mum, found at a flea market!) to get proper lighting for a picture. Oddly, the desk lamp is almost always on and the others almost always off.

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Love the memento mori in the corner.

Never trust someone with a desk that clean.

I've heard that Spiders do as he bids them...

[Lady Onogaro]

Dreck's spiders and skulls make up for the desk's clean surface.

[Dreck]

Never trust someone with a desk that clean.

I've heard that Spiders do as he bids them...

She does indeed. And someday I will discover a way to breed them as large and fierce as wolves...
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