Hi! Long time no see. Since moving back from Japan I haven’t bought many pencils and thus I don’t post as often, but I keep lurking
In any case, I had the opportunity to attend to the Madrid Pen Show, where I saw for the first time the products from Toyooka Craft. Despite being a Japanese craftsman group, their sales seem to be mostly to overseas customers. It was nice chatting with them. They explained to me how they cut the wood so that the wood expansion is carefully taken into account, how the joinery has no nails etc. Indeed the finishing is very nice.
Toyooka Craft products are quite popular in r/fountainpens but I have never seen anyone here use them (probably because they don’t fit massive collections). For me it’s perfect: It looks great on my desk and I can access my favourite pens and pencils whenever I want!
There are more sizes and shapes. Depending on the size, the price varies. This has 10 slots per drawer, so 40 in total. At a price of 280€ for the full piece, you could say it costs me 7€ to store each pen! What a deal! Hahaha
The misc MP drawer
The Pilot MP drawer
The Pilot pen drawer
The “back in the day, we didn’t have phones! Heck we didn’t even have TV! Nor penicillin! Only wheels and fire” drawer
In any case, for someone who likes to rotate through many pencils it’s not a good option, but for someone who has a relatively compact collection and has the money to spare, it’s a cool piece!