Recommendation? Thoughts/recommendations on magnetic knife strips for kitchen knives?

Fitzhugh

Fitzhugh

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As title says, I'm looking for a decent magnetic knife block for my kitchen knives. Wooden, wall mount, somewhere around a foot long. Know any brand, or better yet, maker you like?

Is there any issue with the blades becoming magnetized wrt sharpening? I picked up a really nice used woodworking chisel once, found it was so magnetized the swarf stuck to it enough that it was a pain - took it to work and degaussed it. I was removing a lot of steel though (flattening the back, changing the bevel), and it must have been stuck to a really strong magnet in some toollbox.

Thanks for any suggestions.


... Bit of an aside:
I've looked at reviews of a bunch on amazon and pretty much all have lots of good reviews and a few very poor reviews detailing significant flaws. I've recently come to distrust their review system... even though I rarely write any, I've still been contacted twice in the past few months by sellers offering refunds/extra products for changing reviews I wrote. In both cases they were middling reviews that listed both pros and cons, not 1 star diatribes, and in both cases I got irritated enough to play busybody and report to amazon... no reply from amazon in either case.
 
For what it's worth, I use a bunch of the ones from Harbor Freight to display almost all my folders with no problems...they're magnetic enough to pick up a paperclip but it's not an issue during sharpening that I've noticed:)
 
Huh, I forgot about those. Cheap enough that it solves the underlying problem of feeling bad I didn't just make one myself.
My shop tools are back in storage as a family member stays in the room that is otherwise my shop, but I'd really prefer to make a magnet bar myself. This way I can get my knives up on the wall and then move the bar to my shop and make a wooden one just how I want in a couple months when my tools are once again out of purgatory.

Like Amazon, the reviews are mostly great and a small number of really bad marks. Unlike Amazon, I suspect it's QC rather than fake reviews, since hf made a smart move long back of letting us see all the bad reviews... low expectations leads to being happy when you get something that actually works great.

Thanks
 
Thanks - been away, just saw this.
I'm worried about a household member chipping the edge of harder Japanese knives on a metal one, but I've gotten unreasonably excited about getting some cheap ones for my shop.
For kitchen use I've ordered one from benchcrafted. Didn't know they made them them until I stumbled on an article on the paper recommending them. They're in the ballpark of wood ones on Amazon & Etsy, but at least have a knife brand behind them.

Thanks for the recommendations.
 
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