That's a great looking writing slope. Enjoy it.
Regards, Chrissy | My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
That looks just lovely! I hope get a great deal of pleasure from using it
I have made two in the last few years. As a highly experienced woodworker these were enjoyable engineering / design exercises with several goals. 1) A quality wooden writing surface 2) A slope with a front ledge to hold paper in place 3) Rims all around to prevent pens from rolling off and giving me a register for folding paper, running a lining ruler, and installing various metrics along the top of the rims 4) a place to store paper and finished letter pages undamaged.
I was also leaning towards light as possible so I could lug it to a cafe. The most important parts of this were the need to get finished letters all the way home without damage and avoiding the grunge of cafe table tops.
With this design the 3/4" front ledge is hard to navigate when writing at the bottom of the page. The design riddles go on and on. If the surface were much larger, the paper could be shifted up and there'd be room for the hand on the slope. If the front of the slope met the table top with only, say, a 1/4 ledge then there wouldn't be enough wood on the front for a proper 4-sided box.
I was very happy with the storage compartment accessed via a slot in the rear. The quest goes on
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If n when I travel, which isn't that often really, I can't always count on a comfortable table / desk etc to sit and write at.
so I made the mark one ....which served me well, but the spirals at the bottom of a Rhodia pad were a pain, and the padded wrist support wasn't big enough.
So....taa daa....the Mark two. Soft felt wrist support, covers the spiral just enough, and it can hold a bunch of pens of any girth.
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