Displaying your knives

[StoneAndSteel]

So I have been collecting knives for ages and have never really had a way of organizing them that suited me. Little plastic displays and a modified challenge coin display are my "success" stories. Everyone here spends too much money on knives, I REALLY want to see how you organize/display them. Pics and where you got your set up would be awesome. If you made it yourself, I am interpreting any posted pictures as a release of any sort of patent and I am cleared to make my own (with attribution, of course). Thanks all!

 

[SwarthyGnome]

I have a conundrum of sorts. I want to display my knives. But I also like to see them in their sheaths.. some sheaths cost quite a bit and look good. So which to display, regardless of how to display?
Also
My wife is not a fan or stabby things. So. There is the most significant challenge to displaying my knives.

 

[WValtakis]

I use magnetic tool strips for the folders, the fixed blades are all in display cases that double as coffee tables.

 

[fatfrog]

I need to up my display game. All I have is a plastic shoebox where I toss everything in.

 

[Casinostocks]

My "display" game sucks but here you have it. The drawers are quite a bit deeper and longer than they look but then again, some folks like Chip buy a house for their knives and then happen to cohabit with 'em

 

[WValtakis]

Some folks like Chip buy a house for their knives and then happen to cohabit with 'em

The knives were a thing when we got together 20 years ago, I made sure it was in the fine print

 

[StoneAndSteel]

My wife is not a fan or stabby things.

I think our wives are related.

I use magnetic tool strips for the folders, the fixed blades are all in display cases that double as coffee tables.View attachment 1576085

This is awesome; truly beautiful. Though, as I noted earlier, the wife isn't a knife person. I currently have them split between a shelf and a box under my bed.

 

[bluemax_1]

I think our wives are related.


This is awesome; truly beautiful. Though, as I noted earlier, the wife isn't a knife person. I currently have them split between a shelf and a box under my bed.

No man cave?

 

[StoneAndSteel]

No man cave?

Lol Not right now. Regrettably work dictates my housing situation for the next spell. Once we get back to the real world a den is certainly in my future.

 

[SneezySky]

 

[TommyGun56]

Here is one (of 2) I have for storing my CPK 8 inch blades or shorter ( I really don't remember where I purchased them from, It has been 4-5 years since I bought them )-Sorry (probably Amazon or Wayfair)

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[fatfrog]

Here is one (of 2) I have for storing my CPK 8 inch blades or shorter ( I really don't remember where I purchased them from, It has been 4-5 years since I bought them )-Sorry (probably Amazon or Wayfair)

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Edges up!!!

 

[Richard338]

Here are some builds and purchases from the last year or so.
It's not a display, but you can see a display box I have for a dagger at the back.
My wife mostly ignores my knives although my completed Smatchet elicited a "holy shit".
I have gotten away with a waki and tantos over the fireplace.
Some have been stashed in a modular shoe rack in the basement.
We will move into a new house in August. I think I'll take design inspiration from Knives Out.

 

[Grenock]

I am a disgrace to the term collector and to CPK. The high end folders are all in a roll with individual pockets. The fixed blades regardless of what they are, are in a pile on the floor of the vault. It’s bad.

 

[Jsega51]

I have one hanging knife display and a crap ton of knives spread out all over my dresser and gun cleaning table

 

[WValtakis]

Ok, here's the temple of folders...there's 15 feet of magnetic strips in there

 

[TRfromMT]

I have a H Gerstner & Son's vintage machinists chest. Circa 1945. Several drawers of folders and maybe 10 fixed blades. The chest itself is the showpiece, and being filled with knives... Makes it fin to explore.

Rest of the kit is in a Craftsman 5 drawer top-box tool chest in the garage. Stuff moves out to the garage now and then, and vice versa.

 

[SwarthyGnome]

Got my anti-people pole a.k.a. my Iklwa next to my trusty ghetto -fabulous-extreme-violence-abdominal- ventilator K18 by my computer.

Haven’t gotten these any further on display. Honestly surprised my wife hasn’t accosted me for having them in relative sight lines.

 

[ferider]

Quick and dirty iPhone shot behind me. These are the Fixies not in rotation.

 

[mpjustin]

Many of these have gone to new homes but I use a tool cabinet for storage.