Maxpedition doesn’t make bags. They make carrying tools wrought from 1,000 denier lightweight ballistic nylon fabric, AS-100 high-grade closed cell foam padding material for superior shock protection, high tensile strength composite nylon webbing, triple-distilled ink of Kraken and the heartsblood of dragons.
![Maxpedition knife collector's bag Maxpedition knife collector's bag](http://www.leighreyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/P1010254-600x450.jpg)
I got their knife collector’s bag because I was curious to see if it would carry pens. The bag is meant for “connoisseurs of fine cutlery,” which makes me think more Oneida and less Spyderco. When it arrived, I poked it with a stick to see if it would bite. When it seemed safe to approach, I opened it.
![Windowed inserts Windowed inserts](http://www.leighreyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/P1010247-600x450.jpg)
Inside, it has windowed inserts for small folders, large folders, small fixed blades, and lightsabers (off). It also has a CCW compartment with a D-ring pull for fast deployment, although I cannot for the life of me see how anything inside this bag can be concealed carry for long, because the Velcro closures scream like wrestlers getting a full back wax every time I try to open a pocket.
![Side view Side view](http://www.leighreyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/P1010258-600x450.jpg)
Each window can hold two large-bodied pens, or three thin (think 1920s eyedropper) pens. Aloof, taciturn pens can have their own window. An elastic band-flap keeps the pens from sliding out.
![Interior organizers Interior organizers](http://www.leighreyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/P1010246-600x450.jpg)
Other pockets can be used to transport gold bricks, vital organs and A4 folders (of the paper persuasion).
![Concealed carry notebooks (CCN) Concealed carry notebooks (CCN)](http://www.leighreyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/P1010252-600x450.jpg)
Unfortunately for my frame, the bag weighs exactly what you’d expect a manly bag to weigh. This is a bag for Superman.
![In all its closed cell foam padded glory In all its closed cell foam padded glory](http://www.leighreyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/P1010256-600x450.jpg)
I used it for all of 2 days, then I packed it away. I do not deserve this bag. I am a deluded wimp for even thinking I could lift it for the few steps I take from the car to the office. Simply opening one of the Velcro-sealed front pockets requires the same effort as lifting a kettlebell, with ten times the screech. I can depend on this bag in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Hell, I could probably eat it to survive. But for now, my pens are back inside standard pen cases, carried in a standard non-ballistic bag.