Jon Szanto (November 2nd, 2017)
Jon Szanto (November 2nd, 2017)
Okay, now I need to purchase a box of cigars.
"Love is the final fight."
Jon Szanto (November 2nd, 2017)
Does anyone know someone who can do something similarly beautiful on *this* side of the pond?
My first attempt at cigar box pen holder!
I picked up the box on Ebay and 2 other boxes in poor condition for the wood. I am not a woodworker, metal is my game so this was fun. I am going to make another one as I have learned a few things doing this little project.
NEW>>> I am putting many coats of tung oil on and gently sanding with fine crocus cloth.. LOOKING BETTER.. Now I have 3 more cool vertical boxes I am tung oiling and making sections for. I bought 1/16 thick cedar and cherry to make dividers with. Making bronze and brass "pens and ink" as surface decoration. Will post when they are done.. This is fun!
Last edited by NibsForScript; December 7th, 2017 at 06:32 PM.
penwash (May 12th, 2018)
This one holds my mechanical pencils, but still...
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
dfo (May 6th, 2018), NibsForScript (May 6th, 2018), penwash (May 12th, 2018)
I started working on this box last year after finding this thread. I made a two layered box. The top tray is for my pens and their cases, which are in rotation (the tray is made of oak lined with leather). The bottom is a custom pen tray made of leather lined oak pen slots.
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"Love is the final fight."
NibsForScript (May 6th, 2018), penwash (May 10th, 2018), VertOlive (May 6th, 2018)
Nice
The liner on the right came with the white box on the left. By getting trays from gopens.com I increased the capacity on that box to 13. The middle one holds 12.
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Brad "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain
penwash (May 10th, 2018)
dfo (May 11th, 2018)
And I finally have an honest-to-goodness real pen case designed for transporting pens.
Got this with a box of pens that I need to sell, but I love the design of this pen case. See, the padded section at the top of each row would end up holding the opposite row's pens in place when the case is closed. Very clever design.
Last edited by penwash; May 12th, 2018 at 08:20 AM.
VertOlive (May 12th, 2018)
You can buy empty cigar boxes at cigar stores or on eBay.
"Love is the final fight."
I'm should think that this applies in UK also, but here in the US, you could pretty much just walk into a cigar store and ask for boxes that they are going to get rid of anyway.
Some of them would sell you for $1.50 - 3.00, and some of them are quite fancy and well-made.
Loads of empty boxes here Chrissy, from £4 to £40.
https://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/accessori...c-319_546.html
As Penwash suggested, you might find them at any local tobacconist you might have too.
Haven't made a cigar box pen case yet, but I did make a three-string "guitar" out of one a couple of years ago. Sounded pretty good, too.
Here's a photo of it:
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VertOlive (May 12th, 2018)
Brad "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain
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