How To Make A Knife Block Out Of A Log
Step 3 making an inventory of the knives.
How to make a knife block out of a log. Draw intersecting lines to locate a center. Other people store an enormous set of nine or ten kitchen knives six steak knives scissors and a sharpening steel in a huge angled knife block on the countertop. This quite unusual but practical knife block is a relatively fast and simple project for your cnc machine there is some manual work involved edge rounding glueing and sanding but with the right tools it won t take too much time. While the main block is gluing cut out the support block pieces.
Some people buy them one by one and when not in use the knives jangle inside a drawer getting dull and nicked. Once you have cut all the slots glue the five main block pieces together. At the same time glue the main block end piece to the end of the knife block that has open slots showing thus balancing the block s shape. People try to draw and that s ok and in this case of making a knife block all i needed was as simple sketch and idea of what it should look like along with the dimensions.
The tools and camera i. At this point make an inventory of your knives as the width of each slot will reflect which knife is to be stored where. The slots should all be placed in the middle of each piece. Using sketchup i designed two blocks that fit our needs.
Use a clamp to secure the block in this position for drilling. Storing kitchen knives is a perpetual problem. Clamp and glue overnight. The fun part for me is the strategy and process from start to finish.
Use a square to plumb the block from the front and the side. I did this project without spending any money just upcycling bits i had around the workshop. The distance between the end of the block and the slot must be equal. At the top right corner of the knife block measure 19 32 from the back and 3 4 from the side.