How do you store your fixed blades?

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A-love05

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I don't have to many fixed blades (4) but I also don't have any good place to keep them.. right now they sit in a plastic drawer that is too small, out of their sheath and I oil on occasion..

Looking for good ideas for fixed blade storage.. thanks
 
Yeah. Plastic bin of the appropriate size, with lid. I store oiled in the sheath, but opinions probably vary on that. If you want to get fancy, you can buy a Sears tool chest and line the drawers with rubbery kitchen drawer material.
 
I have an old chest I picked up at a flea market, very much like the Gerstner chests that A G Russell sells. Fixed blades go in the three full-width bottom drawers laying on some felt-like material out of their sheaths. Folders and accessories go in the 6 half-width top drawers. Spare .45 & .38 ammo, paracord, CR123 batteries, and a few other things go in the top section under the lid.

Never had an issue with corrosion on non-SS, no marks on the blades because of the soft material, and the whole thing can be easily picked up and moved if necessary.
 
Plastic drawer works for me. Cigar box. Shelf on bookcase. Dresser? Tool box? Desk? Closet shelf?
 
I keep my fixed blades wherever i drop them as they are the children i never wanted yet out of guilt i dont send them down a river in a picnic basket. I have dresser for my real children (read:folders)
 
In their sheaths piled in a drawer. 95% of them are carbon and I don't even oil them. No problems.
 
Check out the Plano Gun Guard cases. They use convoluted foam and come in a couple sizes. I store a lot of mine in those.
 
Not in a sheath if the sheath is leather. Lightly oiled with mineral oil, of course.
 
I keep my fixed bladed knives unsheathed in my kitchen drawer, and keep the sheaths stored in a plastic box with a lid, in another room. I put a Bounce dryer sheet in the plastic box and it helps to cut down on mildew to the leather sheaths.

One time, my female cousin opened the knife drawer and freaked out when she saw all of them, she was afraid to touch them.
 
I keep most of my fixed blades in the safe.

The "Junkers" (Mora, Hultafors, etc) go in a small plastic bin, in their junky plastic sheaths!
 
I finally found some two sided velcro that worked on the door of my safe. I wanted to keep them in a humidity controlled safe, but didn't have the room to just put them in there.

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I take the ones in leather sheathes out and put them on a shelf the kydex can stay in the sheath on that same shelf.
 
Wiped down with mineral oil, in their sheaths, in zippered ballistic nylon tool bags.
 
Covered in the blood of America's enemies.

Sorry my patriotic answer was a day late... oops!
 
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