Recently, I got a new fountain pen as a gift, bought a new Jacques Herbin glass dip pen, and have been playing with different inks. While waiting on materials for another project, I thought I would try making a stand to keep the glass dip pen safe on my desk.

I envisioned something that would echo the glass of the pen and ink bottles as well as the curves. The green glass acrylic seemed ideal for this, as it is a ringer for actual glass visually.

I started by modeling an outline of the pen in Inkscape and used that to figure out the rest of the design.

Layers of glued up MDF made a great bending form for the curved piece.

Using acrylic cement frequently results in unsightly blemishes on finished pieces, and can be easy to break. So, I designed this with M3 bolts for a mechanical connection between the curved and base pieces. I ended up with press-fit nuts shored up with a little CA glue, which seems to be strong enough and avoids the unpredictability of acrylic cement flow.

A green glass acrylic dip pen stand made with a curved strip bolted to a roughly trapezoidal base. A notch accommodates the shoulder of the pen at the top while a circular cut-out at the bottom keeps it from sliding. The elegran dip pen in the stand is violet with a clear tip. It sits next to a bottle of violet ink on a tray with a mother-of-pearl bottom and black sides.
A green glass acrylic dip pen stand made with a curved strip bolted to a roughly trapezoidal base. A notch accommodates the shoulder of the pen at the top while a circular cut-out at the bottom keeps it from sliding. The elegran dip pen in the stand is violet with a clear tip. It sits next to a bottle of violet ink on a tray with a mother-of-pearl bottom and black sides.
A green glass acrylic dip pen stand made with a curved strip bolted to a roughly trapezoidal base. A notch accommodates the shoulder of the pen at the top while a circular cut-out at the bottom keeps it from sliding. The elegran dip pen in the stand is violet with a clear tip. It sits next to a bottle of violet ink on a tray with a mother-of-pearl bottom and black sides.
A green glass acrylic dip pen stand made with a curved strip bolted to a roughly trapezoidal base. A notch accommodates the shoulder of the pen at the top while a circular cut-out at the bottom keeps it from sliding. The elegran dip pen in the stand is violet with a clear tip. It sits next to a bottle of violet ink on a tray with a mother-of-pearl bottom and black sides.
A green glass acrylic dip pen stand made with a curved strip bolted to a roughly trapezoidal base. A notch accommodates the shoulder of the pen at the top while a circular cut-out at the bottom keeps it from sliding. The elegran dip pen in the stand is violet with a clear tip. It sits next to a bottle of violet ink on a tray with a mother-of-pearl bottom and black sides.

There is also a 2-minute build video:

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