MAKE pal Radiorental has a handy knife-storing how-to, he writes –
“My girlfriend is always leaving knives around on the counter. I have a habbit of finding accidents waiting to happen. I thought I’d do us both a favour and build a knife block before the xmas turkey needs carving, something that was going to be well easy to use and not take up any space on our limited counter top.” – Link.
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That’s just freaky.
I just finished making a magnetic knife block myself!
Mine’s honestly a bit prettier though, I had some scrap cherry and wenge laying around. *grin*
you now need to post a photo in the make flickr group.
*grumble*
I don’t have a flicker account, and you can’t make me get one that easily!
but here, I’ll shoot some photos for you.
*time passes*
here, photos.
Magnets are these: 40 lbs of pull, and $.90/inch. This block holds up our big cleaver without breaking a sweat.
I plan on making some more for friends and family, I’ll take progress photos and submit them. Perhaps even an instructable.
yours indeed is much nicer, I have just got my workshop up and running and only have pine lying around so far.
This is really little more than proof of concept, very easy to make… once I have some nice wood and more magnetics I’ll follow your design – thanks
Yeah, yours is nicer cyber. The whole concept is a cool idea, and a pretty cheap/interesting gift too.
Radio, wasn’t trying to one-up you, just thought it was remarkably coincidental. heh.
I highly recommend K&J as linked above for magnets, they’re friendly people, have a great selection, and ship fast. And no I have nothing to gain from recommending them.
I had to make the wood super-thin to get good holding power with the magnets I used, if your budget allows I’d say go with these instead, but they’re about $1.65/inch which gets expensive if you’re making a big block.
I prefer Radiorental’s design.