Inspired By Dudek

[rberg6868]

I do a little woodworking of my own and I really liked the work that Mike Dudek at clickypost.com does so I decided to try making a block of my own and this is what I came up with.
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I started with two pieces of walnut, one longer than the other that I glued together, then planed down. I made a couple of mistakes with keeping the holes in line but, c'est la vie.
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I overestimated the size of holes that I would need for my bigger pens so I wouldn't include the larger holes again. I realized that I had included too many of the largest holes so I cut the last row of them in half to make a kind of an architectural detail. I loved Mike's idea of a slot for my journal but I also wanted a narrower slot for correspondence or cards, that was why I made the whole piece longer.
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Mine doesn't have the kind of architectural bauhaus simplicity that Mike has designed into his but I am pretty happy with how it turned out. If you are interested you really should check his out at http://clickypost.com/the-store-1/ (No affiliation, just inspiration)
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[jackwebb]

Very cool! Nice work.

[Robert]

Very tastefully executed, rberg6868!

[cwent2]

Very good, nice "Wood" work - the Left hand side begs the question - Why the half hole with the step?

Carl Wood

[Bogon07]

Very good, nice "Wood" work - the Left hand side begs the question - Why the half hole with the step?

Carl Wood

I realized that I had included too many of the largest holes so I cut the last row of them in half to make a kind of an architectural detail.

Rberg6868, nice work. Could you make a removable rubber,plastic or whatever insert for you larger holes when you need to use them for your smaller pens.

I would suggest the "ink shelf" could do with a raised edge to stop bottles accidentally falling off if your block was bumped.

Nice set of pens too. Especially the Deltas & the Visconti.

[cwent2]

Thanks Ken, I missed that line......

Cw

[rberg6868]

I realized that I had included too many of the largest holes so I cut the last row of them in half to make a kind of an architectural detail.

Rberg6868, nice work. Could you make a removable rubber,plastic or whatever insert for you larger holes when you need to use them for your smaller pens.

I would suggest the "ink shelf" could do with a raised edge to stop bottles accidentally falling off if your block was bumped.

Nice set of pens too. Especially the Deltas & the Visconti.

The last of my children is on the verge of moving out of the house so the chances of it getting bumped have gone down considerably. I did consider a ledge on the far edge of the left side so that pens could lean from there into the half round hollows but I felt that the lines of the thing were already getting quite busy.

[earthdawn]

Thats awesome and really well executed. Fit and finish looks pretty darn good to me.

Bravo!

[caribbean_skye]

now if it only had an adjustable section for the reply to stack.

[VertOlive]

Orange pens! Yes!

Oh, right, very nicely done woodwork as well, of course!

[clickypost]

Great work! Love it, and thanks so much for the kind words.

Very nice collection as well!

[rberg6868]

Orange pens! Yes!

Oh, right, very nicely done woodwork as well, of course!

Thank you. Yes, I love the orange pens. Especially that Dolce Vita, really the king of orange.