Anybody putting their knives in one of these?

Tilley Knife

Tilley Knife

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Schaschlik block - A wooden box full of skewers.

If so, how do you like it? I'm thinking about building one for myself. Thanks in advance.

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Looks to me like a box frame with a bunch of kabob skewers as filler.... pretty simple. Neat idea though.
 
Well the skewers are obviously not attached to anything they should hold just by pressure from the other skewers. So you just take out the knives and then take out the skewers and wash out the dust etc..

If the knives damage the skewers you just replace then... Love this idea!
 
:cool: Thanks for passing along the idea. :thumbup:

This perfect the those knives you own that they don't make a block for.
 
stoffi said:
How do u clean it?
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Exactly. Just flip it upside down and dump your skewers in to some warm soapy water. Actually, I would probably just replace the skewers all together. I’m not really comfortable storing steel in once soaked skewers. They may hold moisture for a while. The local dollar store has a 150 count bag of skewers for, go figure, a dollar.
 
I have one of those that uses stiff silicone rods instead of skewers. I use it as my kitchen knife block. It works great, and the hole unit comes apart and is dishwasher safe. Great for my Ceramic kitchen knives.
 
bobusx said:
I have one of those that uses stiff silicone rods instead of skewers. I use it as my kitchen knife block. It works great, and the hole unit comes apart and is dishwasher safe. Great for my Ceramic kitchen knives.
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Now this is a *great* idea. I wonder where the silicon rods can be bought?
 
I've owned one of these blocks for over 6 years and I think they're awesome -mine uses black plastic "spaghetti" rods as well.

It is perfect for people who wish to mix-and-match their cutlery and not be limited by the quantity or preset widths and thicknesses of standard slots.

One negative. The rods are bundled together at the bottom so can only expand a certain amount. If you have a lot of knives, or particularly thick knives, you will reach a point where the rods are too wedged together to allow more knives to be pushed all the way in. This means that some of the knives may have their edges expose. I reached that point when I added a Japanese cleaver to my stand. If you make your own, I suppose you could just remove some of the skewers.
 
CWL said:
I've owned one of these blocks for over 6 years and I think they're awesome -mine uses black plastic "spaghetti" rods as well.

It is perfect for people who wish to mix-and-match their cutlery and not be limited by the quantity or preset widths and thicknesses of standard slots.

One negative. The rods are bundled together at the bottom so can only expand a certain amount. If you have a lot of knives, or particularly thick knives, you will reach a point where the rods are too wedged together to allow more knives to be pushed all the way in. This means that some of the knives may have their edges expose. I reached that point when I added a Japanese cleaver to my stand. If you make your own, I suppose you could just remove some of the skewers.
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I've heard that's an issue with the silicon version. I figured that the skewers, being unattached at the bottom, may be more accommodating. Thanks for the posts, now I'm off to the shop.
 
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