Thanks for the tip. I’ve considered joining the M-WTCA, but they do not really seem to serve the west coast. Their web site always shows no meets for our area:
Area O (AK, AZ, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA, British Columbia) ; Pending notification
This is not surprising since the association does have “Mid-West” in the name. Out here in SoCal we just have informal independent tool dealers. I get the sense that they prefer to be independent. I would gladly participate in a larger Tool Collector or hand-tool woodworking organization, but nothing like that seems to exist here. Maybe all the good ole’ tools and woodworking history is in the mid-west, or maybe Californian’s long ago threw out their grandfather’s old WW tools and bought car mechanic’s tools instead.