Knife Safe

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What kind of safe is recommended for a knife collector? A large heavy steel gun safe 300+ LBS( non fireproof ) or a smaller fireproof safe ??? What do you guys recommend ?
 
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Depends upon the collection. ;)

Your small safe is ok if you take precautions to bolt it to something to prevent an energetic thief from carting it off to be broken into at his leisure.

A larger non fireproof safe is obviously no protection from fire so depending upon your home insurance, may or may not cover your loss due to fire. Also if it is really cheap a crow bar could easily defeat it.

Now if you end up getting a large fire safe, try to get at least size larger than you think you need...you'll rapidly grow into it. Suddenly family photos, important documents, expensive electronics can find their home in the big fire safe.
 
I have a non fireproof gunsafe. Can fit maybe 5 rifles/shotguns in the bottom and has an ammunition locker with separate lockable door inside the main door up top. I'm currently building a wooden frame with shelves to fit inside it to hold my knives. It's bolted the the concrete floor of the shed.

Knives will be pretty safe, (pardon the pun), in there and it's thick enough to minimise any fire damage which wouldn't be all that great in the shed. All steel shed with minimal flammables in it.
 
I use a firesafe. It's about 16 X 16. It bolts to the floor, that was important to me. I also like the feeling of not needing to worry in a fire.

It fits quite a few knives. It also serves to keep a limit on me :D If I ever wanted to I guess I could store them out of their boxes and fit hundreds in there! :O
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Pics or it didn't happen!

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Uh, how big is the dog?
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Any dog smaller than a Great Dane is puny! :jerkit:

A nice big fireproof safe would be great for your knives. Like others recommended buy a larger one than you need; some other stuff will find themselves into your safe. :D
 
I would recomend that you get a "fire rated" gun safe. The ratings of course vary in duration (30 mins up to 60 mins +), and the price flunctuates with that as well. Don't get a walmart gun safe, they very likley will not survive a tool attack. My first safe was a Morgan Fort by Browning a 9 long gun safe with shelves. In 2001 My home was broken in to for the express purpose of breaking into that safe. It survived a horrendous tool attack and they couldn't get the thing more than 6 inches from the wall. It survived crowbar prying on the corners of the door, beating on the hinges with a sledge hammer, beating on the edge of the safe to try to crack open the welds, beating the handle assembly and lock completely off the safe, and removal of the safe (it took 4 of us to get the thing inside my home empty).

I had to hire a locksmith to open it for me and it took him a little over 2 hrs to drill through the hardened steel, in just the right spot, so he could trip the lock and get the door open. Nothing else in the house was touched! Laptops, TV, all left alone!

Get a bigger safe than you think you'll need. It will fill up fast I promise you!
 
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