Knife safes?

Camillus

Camillus

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Ok so I know the term ‘safe queen’ gets bandied around a lot, and we all kind of know that it means a knife that is kept in mint condition.

but does anyone actually keep their knife in a safe? Please enlighten us
 
I think gun safe is the answer you’re going to see a lot of. :D

Personally, I just keep my knives in an old parts cabinet with shallow drawers (lined with tool box drawer liner). But I also don’t have any safe queens, only users and future-users. :D
 
I first came across this term safe, safe queen when I turned up here years back;)

It perplexed and amused me. As a cynical satirical European....the word Safe Queen conjured up images of a retired effeminate who was writing his memoirs in a Safe Space :D

Then I thought about Safes. Bank jobs etc;) Obviously, gun cabinets are secure and a reasonable place to stash other treasures, but I wonder IF anybody else actually uses an old safe? would be ultra cool, unless like me you'd forget the combination:eek: My maternal grandfather had a safe in his house apparently for business purposes and when the house was demolished it was dragged out with lifting gear . Long before I was around, but having a real safe would be enticing:thumbsup:

My non users in mint...are in boxes in the cupboard, somebody breaks in they won't be after knives and they'll never find them buried in all that junk, but then neither do I :eek:
 
While I do have a safe to keep most of my guns in, I don't keep any of my knives in it.
My main hobby is in collecting an eclectic mixture of objects. These items are things that I find unique and/or interesting in some way, (and that includes many folding & fixed blade knives).
While they are kept safe in an air and temperature controlled environment, (dehumidifier, heat, and air conditioning use), they are not kept away from sight. Instead, I keep them behind glass displays, which allows them to be incorporated into my dwelling's decor, (my decor is another one of my hobbies). Burglary and Fire are obviously possible disasters that are a concern for me, but I have weighed the risks and chosen to keep them in this manner.
 
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I keep mine in a wooden box that used to contain my gun cleaning kit. That stays up on a high shelf because I have a two and a half year old daughter. I'm more concerned with keeping people around me safe than I am about crime. I have been thinking about building a display case though. If I did that, I'd probably put a lock of some sort on it. Some of my fixed blade hunting knives are in my gun cabinet just because I only use them when I go hunting anyway.
 
All of my knives sit on my night stand, heavy users are right in arms reach, and my nicer knives are in their respective boxes/tubes on a small shelf on the front. That way when I wake up in the morning I can immediately start to contemplate my most difficult decision of my day... What knife should I carry? If I find Will Power Will Power in my bedroom then there might be trouble. :p
 
We have a fire proof safe for documents, but there's no room for knives in it. The few guns I have are stored in locked cases. I keep the majority of my knives in a cabinet that my wife decided I needed, as they were all stored on open glass shelves in my office. It looked pretty cluttered.
Since we have a monitored fire and burglary alarm system I figure they are "safe" enough.
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My gun safe has only guns and my Dad's ashes in it.
I really only have two knives that I consider "safe queens", just means I won't "use" them.
One is Jack's Hartshead Barlow and the other is the Russel/Cattaraugus knife I won in Randy's GAW.
Those two knives and all my other knives that I'm not currently "using" live in a fire-proof lock box on a shelf in the closet.


The knives I reach for the most live on a shelf protected by Earth's mightiest heroes.
 
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Hickory n steel said:
Is that one of them fancy wood cabinets a family might by at a yard sale and use it for an old Zenith TV to appear classier when they couldn't afford a fancier newer TV ? :D
We had one s a kid my mom always called it the TV armor.
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An "armoire" is larger than those TV cabinets. It's used to store clothes and linens. The TV cabinet is more of a modified "commode" which could be translated by "dresser".
I remember those cabinets and the old TVs, it was the middle ages!

Dan.
 
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