Knife Block #1

That’s nice, I like the color contrast. Thanks for posting.

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

Great looking block and the skewer idea is unique : )

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That looks great Rich! Thanks for the props. I’m glad the 1/4” spacers worked out as well for you as they did for me. And I love that curly maple.

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Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Very nice! Any pictures of how the spacers work?

-- Derek, Bremerton WA --

Rich, it looks like someone’s getting a great Christmas gift. Great design. I like the contrasting wood too.

Thanks for posting it.

-- Martin, Kansas

Very nice, my wife just asked for one of these last week. I might have to borrow from this design nice job

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Looks like a fun project. What do you use for the skewers?

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Thanks all for the comments.

Blake,

I ordered 12,000 10” bamboo skewers, this one used about 2000 of them. I ended up ordering them wholesale from an online restaurant supply company So if you buy them in case lots of 3000 skewers, they run about $0.79 a pack of 100. For the steak knife section I cut the skewers down on the bandsaw. I just took about 300 of them, put rubber-bands around either end and zipped the bundle through.

Derek,

When I do number two I will take pictures of the pieces before, during and after assembly so you can get an idea. What I did was to take the bottom piece of wood and dado five 1/4” grooves in it, spaced about 1 1/2” apart. When I mitered the sides of the main cavity on the table saw I ended up with a 24” piece of leftover stock, so I ripped a 1/4” piece of off that, which was already mitered at 45 degrees on one side. So I cut that into the 5 pieces of wood I needed to glue into the dadod slots. The 45 degree miters help prevent the skewers from catching on the top of the spacers while you are installing them. Then I packed the skewers into each section, forcing as many as I could get into each space before moving to the next one. Skewers are sharp, so use a block of wood to push them in as they get tougher to insert.

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Thats a nice knife block.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker