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Wow, sixteen more on the drop today! Shouldn't take more than an evening to cut them out and pack them, I'd hope, so based on the current numbers, I'm hoping to ship the completed run to Massdrop on Wednesday of next week. Still a bit tentative, of course, but that's my goal for the moment!
GonzoTGreat
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Mar 28, 2016
KomitadjieHi @Komitadjie,
Thanks for your thoughtful posts!
It's refreshing to hear directly from the vendor/manufacturer about how this stuff comes together, literally and figuratively.
Getting real-time updates is awesome.
Finally, these stands seem pretty darn ingenious. I'm impressed with the product and that you and Massdrop were able to bring these to us.
I have to pass on this drop (cash-flow issues) but it seems as though these stands will be very handy and your participation in this thread is truly appreciated.
Cheers.
GonzoTGreatHey, thanks, @GonzoTGreat!
I suspect there will be another drop of these in the future, so you might have a chance to pick one up when it's more convenient!
The stand design is the product of a few iterations, starting out actually with a little paper doll thing my wife and daughter put together. It got me thinking that it wouldn't be too tough to set up a user-assembleable stand out of something a tad tougher than paper. The first iteration didn't work at all, too many parts, which made it way too flimsy. Second and third were better, getting slowly stronger and reducing the part count. The wood five-pen is the fourth iteration of the design (as is the single-pen), with the five-pen acrylic being a direct linear evolution of that design, with just minor modifications to dimensions to make the slightly thinner acrylic fit properly. The twelve-pen was an obvious extension on the design after a fellow asked me to make him one holding as many pens as I could (the size of the stand basically maxes out efficient use of my laser, I could go slightly larger, but it would require two cutting operations instead of one). The six-pen acrylic is the latest (and my personal favourite) of the designs, after a lady asked me if I could modify the five-pen design to hold a Kaweco Lilliput.
I'm always scheming on new designs, and people hand me good ideas all the time! So who knows what the next set might have? I particularly enjoy working with Massdrop on these, since it gives me the opportunity to really get a design out there, and see what people think of it. More of my designs have come from people's input and questions than any other source! Heck, this entire thing aside from the first iterative set of designs all sprang from people's requests and ideas.