JW Ergonomic pen holder

[Daniel McGill]

Esteemed members,

I am posting with a question to you all.

Have any of you used or are using the Ergonomic pen holders, discovered and created by Master Penman Jake Weidmann?  The price is extreme for a holder but I always find myself looking at them as one does for a jacket or car they see in a store.

What has your experience been?

[Erica McPhee]

It’s a hard thing to determine a comfortable pen hold without holding it right in your hand. I tried one at an IAMPETH meeting and it did not work for me. But I have very small hands. There are some who really like them.

IMHO, you are paying a premium because it was made by a master penman. 

[melanie jane]

There are other pen makers (myself included) who make ergonomic penholders at a much more realistic price, and of different shapes and sizes, which might be less of an extreme change from the traditional shaped penholder.  A search on Etsy will find you lots of choice at different price points.

[D B Holtz]

You can watch Jake make a pen.  This was one episode of the Craftsman's Legacy series on PBS.



DB

[melanie jane]

I only skipped through the video but the only pen I can see him making is a turned pen, not one of his ergonomics.  I’d guess that his acrylic ergonomics are cast in a mould, since they are so uniform and have the ‘look’ of a cast piece, though of course I could be wrong. His wooden ones are, I assume, hand made since I can’t think of any other way of making them. 

[melanie jane]

I just remembered that Chris Yoke (Yoke Pen Company) also makes replicas of some traditional ergonomic penholders, so it would be worth taking a look at his site too.