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Or, the "Rasp's Nest".

The title comes from shades of the days when us CAD guys were working and the system warned of "Dew Point Critical Shutdown", and guys started yelling, "File, File!" around the room, lol.

OK, enough draftsman nerdery. I made this box to hold my Corradi rasps and Taiwanese files after having to suffer through winding them out of their plastic shipping packages, which were just getting more shredded over time. Made of basswood scraps left over from some kumiko projects, alder and poplar scraps and a 1/8" by 5" by 2' plank of wenge that I was going to make a project from for my eldest son's gf, but he broke up with her before I started. He's been married for about 9 years, so that plank had languished long enough.

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Nicely done! That wenge is really eye catching.
 

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Nicely done, and a great little box for the files.
 

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Thanks, folks. I failed to mention that there is no finish on this, yet. And there may never be. We'll just see. Anyone who has worked with wenge knows what a splinter supply that stuff is, too. I'm not sure what happened with the color. The wenge is nearly black, in person.
 

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Nice project…Well done…

Great to make yourself a shop help project, that looks and works good…
 

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Thanks! This goes in my carving tool chest, for transport to/from the club meetings.
 

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Best place to store files is in their own storage box. Neat and way much better than those plastic packages they come in. Looks great.
 

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beautiful way to store your files.yeah funny how light the wenge looks in your pic.
 

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Thanks, guys. There's a lot of yellow in there. The basswood is actually white in person, but yellow in this pic.
 

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Plastic packages?
I don't have any fine file sets like that, but the few "good" files I have are placed in a drawer and kept from contact with each other. As to my large collection of larger "regular" files, well, they are piled into another drawer =8^@

I know, I know, Bad! At least I am careful when putting them back versus just tossing them in…..

On the bucket list, organize my files and treat them with respect.

Steven, very nice and solid box, your files will respect you and your creations (not to anthropomorphize them too much)!

Me thinks I'll need to make some drawer dividers like you have and try to gain my files respect (I'm so ashamed!)

+1 on braving the wrath of the wenge!
 

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Thanks! I am ashamed to admit that my metal working files aren't protected from each other. The difference is that the Corradi "Italian Hand-Stitched" rasps weren't cheap like a Nicholson flat bastard is.
 

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Anyone would treasure something hand stitched by an Italian versus some random flat bastard 8^)
 

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Anyone would treasure something hand stitched by an Italian versus some random flat bastard 8^)

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lol
 

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Excellent job. I need lots of things like this. They're on the long-term todo list though. I guess I'll just be jealous and fight with the plastic sleeves ;-)
 

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Nice I like it.
 

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Thanks, guys. I made this as compact as possible. The top tray and the lid serve as restraints to keep the files and rasps in their place.
 
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