Rolls, books, boxes or drawers. How do you store your knives?

[PaulBosley]

Thanks everyone great ideas here. The handmade custom knife rolls look great to me. I really like the Gerstner, has a treasure chest feel. I will start looking for one today.

 

[CoffeeCat2112]

Sent you a PM, Paul.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I have a Gerstner GI-532 Machinists Tool Chest. I've been using it for several years.

That's really nice, but I cannot justify buying one.

I have mine scattered all over the place. My truck, my shelf. I have most of my folders spread out on a shelf in my closet, and the fixed blades in a nightstand. I did have a knife roll, but it fell apart .

 

[Humppa]

Well... that´s little problem for me ... they get more and more.

When I started, I had one drawer for knives. There were a lot of knives in there. Modern mixed with traditionals.

Then I turned up to one of these Stanley Tool-Boxes for screws and tools and all this stuff. Now I have two. One for my traditionals and one for my modern ones. The modern one is still nearly empty but the traditional-knife-Stanley-Tool-Box is almost bursting from the knives I accumulated during the time. I definitelly need to get a third box...

EDIT: Oh... and I just one or two knives around somewhere in the house and some in the workshop. But 99% of them are well stored in the boxes. Everything needs its place.

 

[brownshoe]

I use cigar boxes. When they were little, my kids would decorate the outside and give them to me for birthday and christmas.

 

[CoffeeCat2112]

I use cigar boxes. When they were little, my kids would decorate the outside and give them to me for birthday and christmas.

That's awesome! Those are truly "treasure" boxes.

 

[PGeo00]

Re Kris and Blaine, my wife wanted to get me one for Christmas last year and I declined, I may let her re-visit that idea this year though

here's a pic of a couple home made rolls of recycled placemats and table cloth, they are crude but effective...

aprox 30 Lbs. of folders here.

I was going to order some Sack-ups, but now I'm thinking I'll try to make some like this. Great job.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

"Rolls, books, boxes or drawers. How do you store your knives?

Yes.

Seriously though, I think my most 'organized' storage is in some Plano-style organizer boxes, with moveable dividers (picked up in the fishing gear section of most sporting goods stores). Problem is, I don't have anywhere near enough of those, and probably not enough room for them, if I did actually have enough Plano boxes.


David

 

[sir_mike]

I normally keep them in a small duffle bag. If they come in there original packaging or box, I keep them in it. If they dont, I will either put them is small pouches so they dont bounce around or wrap them up and store them in a small mailer envelope.

My duffle bag is hard to zip up now so I am looking for my older backpack to move them to. I also seem to have quite a few that I play with in my desk here at home so my drawer space is getting tight too!

 

[qncygnnr]

This is a "modified" shadow box (stands up like a desk picture frame) from a local craft store - It sits on my dresser and lets me easliy choose my EDC for the day. I used to keep everything in a cigar box, but all the rummaging around at o'dark thirty in the morning was starting to irritate my wife (after about 37 years). Now I just pick one out of the case -no muss, no fuss and she sleeps through the entire ordeal. The rest of my collection is in an old metal cash box and a couple of "PLANO" fishing lure storage boxes.

 

[thawk]

That's really nice, but I cannot justify buying one.

I have mine scattered all over the place. My truck, my shelf. I have most of my folders spread out on a shelf in my closet, and the fixed blades in a nightstand. I did have a knife roll, but it fell apart .

I can't justify all of the knives in mine either...

but I got it on Ebay and it had a little damage to one of the drawers. It was easy to fix. I spent $117.00 for it and looked for a very long time. This is the Gerstner International Series, which are still expensive, but not as costly as the ones with fancy wood. I really enjoy having it.

 

[Bob W]

40" Craftsman tool cabinet. I think this is the one (ordered it but haven't picked it up yet):

One of these, or very similar, 26" chest:

A couple similar to these 26" intermediate chests stacked up:

And one of these:

 

[pertinux]

Great picture! Thanks.

~ P.

 

[300Bucks]

In stout safe, except EDCs. Unless you and family members never talk to anyone or do any "inter-acting" , neighbors and friends learn you collect knives. 'Loose lips sink ships"

300Bucks

 

[CoffeeCat2112]

Looks like your about due for another one!

I have a feeling we're going to see a couple more of these popping up from members soon...

Edit to go off-topic for a moment: Could I ask for a closeup of those red tobacco tins? Is there some kind of Old-Timer knife offer on them? If you're inclined to share, maybe you could start a thread on them?

I can't justify all of the knives in mine either...

but I got it on Ebay and it had a little damage to one of the drawers. It was easy to fix. I spent $117.00 for it and looked for a very long time. This is the Gerstner International Series, which are still expensive, but not as costly as the ones with fancy wood. I really enjoy having it.

 

[puukkoman]

They look like the old Prince Albert cans to me, which did have Old Timer knife offers printed on them.

 

[screened porch]

They look like the old Prince Albert cans to me, which did have Old Timer knife offers printed on them.

You're right. Late 60s or so, you could get an Ulster Old Timer Barlow (or stockman or Trapper(?)) for something like 2.75 and some number of paper liners from Prince Albert tins. My favorite Barlow was one of them, judging by the brass liners.

 

[roughedges]

I really want one of those Gerstner chests someday. For now, I'm using a Grizzly 8 drawer storage cabinet. It is made pretty well, at least for the price, and suitable for a medium (errr, most of you guys would say small) folder collection. Will easily hold 8-10 average sized slipjoints per drawer, less for most modern knives or Sunfish, etc.

 

[Sonnemann]

I am mobile a lot, so my knives live in the hard-sided, pad-lockable Plano handgun cases. Once I settle down more definitively I could see myself getting one of those great wooden chests. Of course, the ideal route would be to make my own as a longer-term woodworking project.

 

[oic0]

Just ordered two 24 inch magnetic bars to mount on the wall. Gets them out of the way, but easy to get to and easy to look at and admire.
Rubberized ones were expensive, wood ones were expensive. Most of the ones for kitchen knives looked like they had metal on metal contact and would mess up the finish. Then I looked at the ones for tools, AHA! much cheaper and powder coated so no scratching.