Scratchstock

beautiful !

Real nice looking box you've made there.

like the box the detail on the top is well placed and adds to it. 

That’sa nice caddy right there!

Nice looking! What is that lid? Looks like cherry, but haven't seen the dark streak before. 

This box is made out of spalted maple. Some areas of grain are affected more than others by fungus which causes spalting. Spalting in various wood species stops once removed from the environment and allowed to dry. 

Nice box. I love dedicated storage boxes for  nice tools like that!!!!!!!

Love me spalted maple! only have some veneers and it's very white. Some darker varieties would be nice to use.

Wow - that's nice!

Thanks Steve!

Really nice home for your scratchstock. All of mine have been caveman style. Old handsaw blades that were too sprung, bent, twisted, or whatever, cut into easy to hold shapes, and filed, ground, and sanded, into whatever shape I wanted them to be in. Then for a while I ran into Anthony and bought a lifetime supply of their scratch stock, card scraper stock, and use them when I needed a new shape. The advantage to cavemen, is the world is your oyster, make any shape you want. A lot harder to hold than yours though.  Mine are also thrown in the bottom of a box, or drawer, not so well displayed or supported as yours.  :-)

As well. I have made several scratch stocks and use utility knife blades and old band saw blades for various shaped cutters. But I was at Lee Valley's and tried their cast iron scratchstock and loved the feel of it and the results I could achieve. Thus.... the making of the box!

Being at either LV, or Lie Neilson, or catching one, or both is even better at a show is so cool. You can hands on all the tools, and do comparisons if you can catch both. I can read a web page, or glossy pamphlet all day long, and it's nothing like 30 seconds of having the actual tool in hand.

Strangest thing is when you do buy at a show, usually you get 10 to 15% off, and free shipping. So a bonus to buy in the best possible scenario. Used to be in Cinci back when Pop WWing was still something they both had shows in this area all the time. Not so much any more.

Agree. And you're right the benefits are good going to them.  BTW....I used to work for Lee Valley. Now and then I would work at shows. Been to the big one in Indianapolis several times. Shows are awesome and every woodworker should try going if possible. 

Any shows you know of on the West Coast that are worth a damn?

Nice looking box!

Thank you Fotodog!

Ryan.... don'  know of any U.S. west coast consumer woodworking shows. Where on the west coast?  There's one in Vancouver, BC, Canada in October. But I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for.  Here's the link:  https://www.woodworkingcanada.com/r5/showkiosk.asp?listing_id=5161363

Nah, I’m in NorCal. Vancouver is a neat town, but I don’t know if I can convince myself SWMBO to spend the dough to head all the way up there for a wood show. 

There's a big one in San Diego but I think it's more of a trade show.  Ref link: https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/events-contests/wood-pro-expo-california