How do you store your Fiddlebacks?

[thurin]

Wondering if you guys have any unique ways you store your knives? I need to come up with a better way. For now, they just sit on a bookshelf in my office with mineral oil on the blades.

 

[essublime]

I use a wood knife stand like the one below:



It stores & shows them off quite nicely.

 

[rustycurtis]

Wondering if you guys have any unique ways you store your knives? I need to come up with a better way. For now, they just sit on a bookshelf in my office with mineral oil on the blades.

Any elvish made blades sitting on that Tolkien stack?

 

[on_the_edge]

On my belt in a sheath. Really!

 

[Mistwalker]

Wondering if you guys have any unique ways you store your knives? I need to come up with a better way. For now, they just sit on a bookshelf in my office with mineral oil on the blades.

Beautiful! A man after my own heart. And you soooo need a Woodsman to go with all that Tolkien

 

[w.t. anderson]

Actually, most are wiped with mineral oil and stored in a lidded wooden cigar box apprpriately labeled "The Edge" to which I've added thin wooden dividers. The cigar box sits on the window ledge in my office right behind my desk and chair. My bushfinger and arete swap places back and forth from my car glove box and my business bag.

 

[thurin]

I use a wood knife stand like the one below:

It displays them quite nicely.

That looks handy essublime. I like being able to show em off occasionally.

Any elvish made blades sitting on that Tolkien stack?

Fiddlebacks, Turleys, Tacketts and JKs are as close as I get to Elvish. But I'd say they're pretty darn close.

On my belt in a sheath. Really!

There's always one of them there for me too. Trouble is deciding which one.

Beautiful! A man after my own heart. And you soooo need a Woodsman to go with all that Tolkien

It's definitely missing a woodsman. I first read Tolkien probably 37 years ago. I read through The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and LotR every couple of years. My daughter and I read through the Hobbit before the movie came out and now we're planning on LotR together so I think I'm going to pass on the obsession.

Actually, most are wiped with mineral oil and stored in a lidded wooden cigar box apprpriately labeled "The Edge" to which I've added thin wooden dividers. The cigar box sits on the window ledge in my office right behind my desk and chair. My bushfinger and arete swap places back and forth from my car glove box and my business bag.

Sounds like a great idea. Do they lay down in the box or fit upright between the dividers?

 

[maw]

Hi Thurin,

I store my safe queens in a huge firearms fireproof safe. The safe is about 5.5 feet tall and about 3 feet wide. I'll admit that it is a pain in the rear trying to find which knife I want because I have individually wrap them in shop rags but I feel that they are all well secure. I keep my users in a cloth Over-the-Door shoe organizer hung from our bedroom door. It was my wife's idea and I resisted a little at first, but it has really worked out quite well.

Mark

 

[wildmanh]

I normally store my knives in their sheaths, on my dresser, desk or book shelf. Two of my Fiddlebacks, a KPH and ED Karda stay next to my monitors on my desk, when not in use.

 

[Case_XX]

This is what I tossed together a couple of months ago with some scrap materials I had on hand I works pretty well though one day I might spend a little time redoing it with some refinements I have in mind.

 

[VANCE]

the one i carry stays in its sheath
my kitchen knife sits in the kitchen cabinet
my hiking buddy is currently sitting on the kitchen counter in its sheat (which my wife is less than thrilled about)
12" machete is off getting a sheath made for it...then it'll go back in my truck

 

[w.t. anderson]

The fixed blades are stored upright in the cigar boxes, the folders on their side.

 

[thurin]

Hi Thurin,

I store my safe queens in a huge firearms fireproof safe. The safe is about 5.5 feet tall and about 3 feet wide. I'll admit that it is a pain in the rear trying to find which knife I want because I have individually wrap them in shop rags but I feel that they are all well secure. I keep my users in a cloth Over-the-Door shoe organizer hung from our bedroom door. It was my wife's idea and I resisted a little at first, but it has really worked out quite well.

Mark

Thanks Mark. I'm hoping someday to have a collection even close to yours. The shoe organizer is a good idea.

I normally store my knives in their sheaths, on my dresser, desk or book shelf. Two of my Fiddlebacks, a KPH and ED Karda stay next to my monitors on my desk, when not in use.

Heber - hope you're feeling better. Hoping to order another sheath from you soon. My knife to sheath ratio is getting out of whack.

This is what I tossed together a couple of months ago with some scrap materials I had on hand I works pretty well though one day I might spend a little time redoing it with some refinements I have in mind.

Case - good looking display and nice collection of knives. Those white linen are purdy!

the one i carry stays in its sheath
my kitchen knife sits in the kitchen cabinet
my hiking buddy is currently sitting on the kitchen counter in its sheat (which my wife is less than thrilled about)
12" machete is off getting a sheath made for it...then it'll go back in my truck

Vance - I get grief for the various places my wife seems to find my knives as well. I also get grief when I tell her I need to go to the office to get a knife to cut up the chicken. If I could keep them in the kitchen we wouldn't have that issue

The fixed blades are stored upright in the cigar boxes, the folders on their side.

Thanks for the info w.t.

 

[Evany]

Hey thurin, this is off topic, but LOTR is my all time favorite saga. Now I've gotten my 10 year old son into it. He keeps asking what else he can read from JRRT. I didn't think he had written much else. Any recommendations?

 

[thurin]

Hey thurin, this is off topic, but LOTR is my all time favorite saga. Now I've gotten my 10 year old son into it. He keeps asking what else he can read from JRRT. I didn't think he had written much else. Any recommendations?

There's the Silmarillion which is a book edited by JRRT's son Christopher from his dad's notes and stories that formed the mythology that the LotR and Hobbit were based on. He had been working on the mythology long before those books were written and so there is some incredible backstory going on in them that can be found in the Silmarillion. Some places it reads more like a history book than a novel and many people give up on it.

Most of the stuff you see in that pic are the "History of Middle-earth" series edited by Christopher Tolkien. Goes really deep into how the mythology was formed and the backstory created. It's like the Silmarillion blown out into 12 volumes. Not really meant for casually reading.

He did write some childrens stuff that would be appropriate, take a look at "The Tolkien Reader" - it compiles some of them like Tree and Leaf, Father Giles of Ham, Tom Bombadil.

Also maybe look at some of the recent stuff Christopher Tolkien has edited like "The Children of Hurin" which takes one of the stories in the Silmarillion and expands on it into it's own novel, telling the story of Turin, of which Thurin is an AKA. This is a pretty tragic story and might be best read first yourself before going through it with the kiddo.

 

[Evany]

There's the Silmarillion which is a book edited by JRRT's son Christopher from his dad's notes and stories that formed the mythology that the LotR and Hobbit were based on. He had been working on the mythology long before those books were written and so there is some incredible backstory going on in them that can be found in the Silmarillion. Some places it reads more like a history book than a novel and many people give up on it.

Most of the stuff you see in that pic are the "History of Middle-earth" series edited by Christopher Tolkien. Goes really deep into how the mythology was formed and the backstory created. It's like the Silmarillion blown out into 12 volumes. Not really meant for casually reading.

He did write some childrens stuff that would be appropriate, take a look at "The Tolkien Reader" - it compiles some of them like Tree and Leaf, Father Giles of Ham, Tom Bombadil.

Also maybe look at some of the recent stuff Christopher Tolkien has edited like "The Children of Hurin" which takes one of the stories in the Silmarillion and expands on it into it's own novel, telling the story of Turin, of which Thurin is an AKA. This is a pretty tragic story and might be best read first yourself before going through it with the kiddo.

Thanks--I'm going to look into those titles. My kid's pretty sensitive about fiction, especially really dramatic or tragic stuff, but for some reason he just can't get enough Tolkien.

 

[wildmanh]

This is what I tossed together a couple of months ago with some scrap materials I had on hand I works pretty well though one day I might spend a little time redoing it with some refinements I have in mind.

Cool setup! Is that Marble?

Heber - hope you're feeling better. Hoping to order another sheath from you soon. My knife to sheath ratio is getting out of whack.

Thanks! Catch me in a week or two. I should be ready to start talking new sheaths by then.

 

[Case_XX]

Cool setup! Is that Marble?

Nope, the pics do make it look a bit like marble now that you mention it. It's just a piece of Plywood wrapped in some felt with a couple pieces of slotted oak attached.

 

[thurin]

Bumping this thread since my storage system just got me in trouble. Gonna have to start cycling some of them through the safe.

Would like to see other ideas you guys have.

The current view:

 

[bear71]

I particularly like your sheath mountain at the top right!