I've been putting aside some money here and there for some new waterstones - I'm thinking I'll probably be ordering some in mid February.
Right now my stone holder is a piece of pine with a couple of beveled scraps screwed to it - the stones I have slide in from the side and stay pretty securely in place. There's some non-slip drawer liner glued to the bottom (well, mostly glued - it's coming loose) and that does a decent job keeping things from sliding around.
While I try and keep it from getting too soaked, water and slurry has been taking it's toll on this board, and it will need to be replaced at some point.
While in the process of budgeting for some new waterstones, I'm debating whether I should pick up a new holder/tray sort of thing. The normal sort of black stone holders that clamp the ends of the stones are readily available to me, and I have no doubt that I could construct something functional. At the end of the day, not much is needed, but anything to make the process more enjoyable is nice.
I'm debating lining a small cookie-sheet type thing with some rubber and calling it a day, or making a sink bridge out of some Trex cutoffs from the home center, but I'm just curious what folks here use and what they like. This is one of those things where there's a million ways to do it, from setting down a wet towel to some fancy stone pond. It seems like most of the discussion I see here is about the stones themselves and not these accessories, and a lot of the review info I see is folks who are primarily sharpening knives, not tools.
I guess more than anything I'm wondering if anyone finds any of the fancy commercial jigs and fixtures worth the price, or if it's one of those things not worth the trouble over rolling your own or repurposing something else. (I see McMaster Carr sells some interesting things in their food-service category, including some fibreglass trays with rubber-anti-skid-coating which may be just the thing . . . )