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My step mother got a set of really nice knives for Christmas. They are not supposed to be placed in a block knife holder and she had mentioned wanting a magnetic strip put in the kitchen to hold them. I made her this piece of “magic wood” that was very heavy! When I gave it to her she gave me a look that suggested she was really sad that my mind had finally succumbed to lacquer fumes. Her sadness quickly evaporated when I pulled out the meat cleaver though. She was even more surprised when the block flew out of her hand and clung to cleaver I had been swinging around it.
Cut on the band saw, routed, and inserted with nine ½, ½, 1.5” NdFeB Grade N52 magnets, and then glued up with gorilla glue and 6 pipe clamps. Sanded and finished with “The Good Stuff”. I encouraged her not to take it in her carry-on for the flight home. I was excited about the glue up, sometime gorilla glue pops through and is visible. I was fearful that there would be a line since the band saw cut was across the end grain that I would be able to see a line but as you can see flawless :)
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lumberjoe
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#1 posted 346 days ago
Very nice! Commercial knife brands sell painted versions of this for a LOT of money.
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#2 posted 346 days ago
Great job, looks amazing.
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lew
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#3 posted 345 days ago
Gorgeous!
I’d say the wood is either Mahogany or Sapele.
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ZED
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#4 posted 345 days ago
Mahogony is correct, or “Magic wood”.
Thank you so much for the feedback.
Lumberjoe, where hav you seen these for sale? Other than the magnets this was easy to make. I was thinking these would be awesome in purple heart, or zebra wood.
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Ben325e
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#5 posted 344 days ago
Benchcrafted actually makes these. http://benchcrafted.com/Magblok.html
ZED
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#6 posted 343 days ago
Ben325e, you just shattered my dreams and kids college fund!
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#7 posted 343 days ago
Nice idea and beautiful. How do the dimensions of the magnets ½ X ½ X 1.5” relate to length, width, and thickness? I’ve go some beautiful Brazilian Cherry I’d like to this project in. I really like this project.
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ZED
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#8 posted 343 days ago
I got the magnets from K&J there on the net at http://www.kjmagnetics.com/products.asp?cat=11
I placed the magnets in perpendicular to the length of the wood, as out lined in the shaded areas in the picture pre glue up. In the future I’ll get different magnets (longer so 1/2×1/2×3) and place them end to end parallel to the length of the wood. This would be cheaper in magnets and not have “zones” of magnetism. So your question about the dimensions of the magnets, Length = 1.5 Width = ½ thickness = ½ (this is the face that these specific brand of magnets are magnetized “through”. So the 1/8” face that I cut off with the band saw is not thick enough to disrupt the magnetic pull. The back side of the block is thick enough that it can be screwed into and thus be mounted to a cabinet side.
-- A good craftsman is able to make it work with the tools he has, I still need more tools
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