How Do You Display Your Knives?

[GermanyChris]

If I had customs I might display them, but no one including me wants to see my one of a million knives

 

[Mannlicher]

I don't display much. I do have a handmade Langsax and a sax knife on display, but that's it.

 

[BadComrade]

There's a guy on Etsy called 3dtime from russia who prints these out of a 3d printer. Decent little stand and relatively cheap. I got mine in black

 

[Legendary_Jarl]

 

[BadComrade]

Wow that cabinet with the LED lighting looks sick!! I'm assuming you made that?

 

[JPD1998]

There's a guy on Etsy called 3dtime from russia who prints these out of a 3d printer. Decent little stand and relatively cheap. I got mine in black

I have a few stands like that, in clear plastic. They do work well and they're low cost.

But then I got a cat, so no more knives on display, unless I get a cabinet like Legendary_Jarl's

 

[Legendary_Jarl]

Wow that cabinet with the LED lighting looks sick!! I'm assuming you made that?

It's a Brimnes cabinet from Ikea. The lights are battery powered also from Ikea. I only turn them on when I have visitors or when I wanna see my display in its full glory .

 

[Legendary_Jarl]

I have a few stands like that, in clear plastic. They do work well and they're low cost.

But then I got a cat, so no more knives on display, unless I get a cabinet like Legendary_Jarl's

I've got 3 cats, a toddler and a 1 month old baby. That's a big reason why I constructed that display. Stuff that couldn't fit in the cabinet or that I didn't want to display are stored in a safe box.

 

[ChazzyP]

Over two Christmas's my oldest son gave me two glass-top boxes with two lower drawers and a single case with a hinged glass top. I used to keep my knives in those under the TV in the LR but I outgrew the cases, even after removing the dividers, and we wanted to reduce some of the clutter. My wife found a lingerie cabinet with six drawers that had a hinged top with mirror, drop-front, and three small drawers inside that matched our BR furniture. We bought that, put it in the BR corner and put the display boxes on my low drawer chests in the bay window there. Only the knives in the top of the two boxes are really "on display", though no one goes into our BR but my wife and I or the cat. Here's the set-up--

Left box Spydies top and first drawer, right box Benchmades same

Bottom drawers are budget knives left and ZTs plus one Giant Mouse right

My youngest son made me a box from a solid chunk on mahogany that I cycle various knives through

Heres the cabinet closed and open

Open top with drawers for slip joints left, beads & misc center, and my Buck 110, 112, and a misc leather pouch on the right

Top drawer, CRKs, Al Mar Eagle and Falcon, Wilson Combat Les George Eagle

Second drawer, the other glass-top case with my Sages and pouches with a Strider, RJ Martin, and Skaha

Third drawer, Hinderers left rear, Shiros in double pouches right rear with a Cheburkov on top, my Olamic Wayfarer 247 left front, and Italian knives front center and right--all lionSTEELS plus one Fox Wilson Combat

Bottom drawers, all the peripheral stuff--boxes for CRKs and Shiros, tools, lanyard stock, lubes, polishing compound, scales, clips, travel pouches, etc

 

[Mrgauth]

I honestly don’t. Just lined up on dresser and I grab a couple and go. Only have 10 now total anyway. But then I’m not a collector of anything. Just not in my mental makeup.

 

[halflife78]

100% bright

lowest bright setting

Everything else stored in cabinet below

 

[Bmgillum]

 

[Owen K.]

For folders I put them in this. 50$ on amazon works awesome. Its protective, easy to take places, great canvas for stickers and stuff, and lockable. The rest of my fixed blades I throw in a craftsman box. (yeah I don't take care of em...)

 

[bambam99]

Over two Christmas's my oldest son gave me two glass-top boxes with two lower drawers and a single case with a hinged glass top. I used to keep my knives in those under the TV in the LR but I outgrew the cases, even after removing the dividers, and we wanted to reduce some of the clutter. My wife found a lingerie cabinet with six drawers that had a hinged top with mirror, drop-front, and three small drawers inside that matched our BR furniture. We bought that, put it in the BR corner and put the display boxes on my low drawer chests in the bay window there. Only the knives in the top of the two boxes are really "on display", though no one goes into our BR but my wife and I or the cat. Here's the set-up--

Left box Spydies top and first drawer, right box Benchmades same

Bottom drawers are budget knives left and ZTs plus one Giant Mouse right

My youngest son made me a box from a solid chunk on mahogany that I cycle various knives through

Heres the cabinet closed and open

Open top with drawers for slip joints left, beads & misc center, and my Buck 110, 112, and a misc leather pouch on the right

Top drawer, CRKs, Al Mar Eagle and Falcon, Wilson Combat Les George Eagle

Second drawer, the other glass-top case with my Sages and pouches with a Strider, RJ Martin, and Skaha

Third drawer, Hinderers left rear, Shiros in double pouches right rear with a Cheburkov on top, my Olamic Wayfarer 247 left front, and Italian knives front center and right--all lionSTEELS plus one Fox Wilson Combat

Bottom drawers, all the peripheral stuff--boxes for CRKs and Shiros, tools, lanyard stock, lubes, polishing compound, scales, clips, travel pouches, etc

Can you tell me what those glass top 2 drawer cases were called or where he found them? I've searched for something similar without much luck.

100% bright

lowest bright setting

Everything else stored in cabinet below

Do you have more info on the cabinet below, looks great!

 

[mushka]

I don't display, not even if I'm carrying. I carry for use, and keep the rest in places where they aren't readily visible. In a specific drawer, or regular boxes. I look upon them for my own pleasure.

 

[Stumpy72]

Wow. Some really beautiful display stands and cabinets above. In the extremely unlikely event that I ever get anything worth displaying, I’ll have to do something like that. In the meantime my small number of lowbrow, pedestrian knives will continue to live in the closed desk drawer where they are now.

 

[Brawny]

That's nice!
But I prefer the old Victorian idea of the erotic where a lady showing just a hint of the ankle was considered scandalous.
Therefore I only present the clip with just a shadow of the handle to be seen by the naked eye.
I've seen many a pupil dilate just at the sight of my clip

 

[GatorFlash1]

Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle 25mm chain gun ammo box, grandchildren proof.

 

[The cow]

I used to pound a nail in the wall and hang the knife off of it.

 

[redcanoe]