There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
I imagined 2-3 fountain pens in a case with kind of a staggered & stacked depth to allow grasping and removing one pen without nudging the others, I think I achieved that. My stitching leaves much to be desired but it will hold up for now.
First was the proof of concept using paper cut-2-shape and taped together. Second was a prototype using scrap leather. Now version 1 using a large section of tooling leather. I used a burnishing agent on the edges, then punched all the holes before staining. Finally I stitched the whole thing up with wax coated black thread. The case can hold 4 fountain pens but the fit is a bit tight so I’m backing off to only 3 medium size pens. I might make another one in the near future designed to separate the pens to keep them from touching - that will call for a larger case...we’ll see when the time comes.
Note: The stain is Eco-Flo All-In-One Acorn Brown.