Greene & Greene Knife Block

It looks super fun.

-- Lisa Chan, custom cafts and yarn accessories, http://www.grippingyarn.com

Beautiful joinery.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

looks great good job…love the G&G style

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

What a great idea for a starter G and G project.

very nice, great looking knife block. The ebony really sets it off.

-- John @ http://www.thehuffordfurnituregroup.com

Great design! I like the look of this alot, good job!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

cool idea

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

I forgot to mention one boo boo that everybody needs to avoid when doing G&G. Don’t glue the finger joint. I know it sounds crazy, but if you make the fingers tight, the glue will squeeze out. If you back-bevel the chiseled edges, there’s no wood to glue to. Use screws to pull the assembly together and plug them. I did it all wrong, and there’s glue in the joints I can’t get out, and my assembly didn’t end up as tight as it should be.

-- You can't control the wind, but you can trim your sails

Well done. It looks like a fun project.

Nice. Oozes with the G&G look. God idea with the bamboos.

-- Mike, American in Norway

very cool…

-- Matt--Proud LJ since 2007

that’s frigging awesome.

-- Bud, Central Square, NY, http://thepostnbeam.blogspot.com/

Nice holder and good warning. Now my wife is interested in one, as if I needed another project at this moment :D

I always attributed the smell of Baygon (a pesticide) to ebony, perhaps because I’ve never smelled fermenting wine.

-- Mistake? No, that's just an unexpected design opportunity....

Beautiful functional little piece! I have seen these blocks filled with Bamboo Skewers, that would be a good look but likely a bit more pricey than the straws ;)

I have become obsessed with the G&G style over the past few months. I have even started to try to work out how I can take a couple of Darrell Peart’s classes over at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. I am planning to build G&G Blanket Chest but this looks like a great started project. The tip on screwing not screwing really helps as I tried making a sample joint and the glue was a disaster. Great job I really like the projects you have posted here on LJ’s.

Do you know where I can find the plans for this little beauty? Talking about killing 2 birds, we desperately need a Knife Block, & I need a project to test out my G&G skills on. I would be very grateful if you could point me in the direction of the plans you used.

Thanks!

-Chris

-- I wouldn't be so arrogant if you weren't such a moron!

Great looking knife block.
There’s a company called Kapoosh that has started making these and selling them commercially…here’s their youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEM9CKsrg4

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