knife storage

savagesicslayer · Jan 15, 2006

My grandfather was a master wood crafter/builder and made a huge tool chest that he took to work.he's in a home now so he gave me his old tool chest for my knives.I have over 30 knives in there( mostly fixed blades) plus a hawk and it's not even half full yet.

Bill DeShivs · Jan 15, 2006

I use a map chest, similar to a small blueprint cabinet. I rebuilt mine after getting it from an antique store. They are available new from www.homedecorators.com
These are wonderful if you have a lot of knives.Mine has quite a few more drawers, but then again I have a LOT of knives.
I outgrew the Gerstner chest years ago. It now is a jewelry box.
Bill

TorzJohnson · Jan 16, 2006

I have one of those copies of a Gerstner chest, cost about $60 or so a few years ago. It's not the same quality of course, won't take a real beating like a mechanic's box but it does a good job of just storing stuff and it looks nice.

mckgreg · Jan 16, 2006

For pocket sized knives you can't beat Sack-ups. http://www.knivesplus.com/SACKUPS.HTML
Greg

Death's Head · Jan 18, 2006

I place mine in padded wooden cigar boxes. You can get these cigar boxes free at many local cigarette shops.

JohnR7 · Jan 18, 2006

bigjim said:
Btt....I was wondering if anybody has found anything better. The Tool box sure works for me but I am open to other suggestions.

I use a wood tool box I got on Amazon for less then $50 including the shipping. Also, I like to use cigar boxes, but they tend to be small and expensive.

Way-O · Jan 18, 2006

I don't store them, I use them!
They're always scattered all over the place.

sammyclay · Jan 20, 2006

I had a case built by a guy here in Louisiana it has 4 drawers about 1" deep and 4 drawers about 6" deep the top has a piece of beveled glass in it so your top tray is visible. It has 2 doors that close and lock. it's built out of cherry so it looks nice that in turn allows it to be in the house without the wife complaining. If I remember right I paid 200 for it but I supplied the wood.

JohnR7 · Feb 18, 2006

sammyclay said:
If I remember right I paid 200 for it but I supplied the wood.

That is difficult to build one of something. You can almost build a dozen of them as easy as you could build one of them. I had a full time job once where I took the blue prints from the architect and it was up to me to draft up the shop prints to actually building the item.