Jtchiang9
Active Member
Hi all!
Pretty new to this forum, but I've been having fun looking at everything so far! I've just finished up a magnetic knife holder and thought I'd share it here! Sorry for the long post!
Started with a beautiful piece of flamed maple. My wife works as a luthier (and I've dabbled) and saved this from a very high end shop she worked for in LA. This was probably a very old offcut from a very nice cello.
I then used a ryoba to cut make it a block. Then planed it flat using my joining plane.
Once I got it all planed flat and squared off, I took out my trusty ryoba again and cut the block in half. I'll make a second one of these sometime in the future (when I acquire some more knives )
I then flattened the rough side, I measured out the center line to make the channel to put the magnets in. Used a drill press to get it all started. After testing a bunch with the magnets I bought, I needed about 4.5mm ish thickness to get a good pull from them.
The next part was equally fun and tedious. I wanted to use hand tools for most of this and probably over complicated this. Got to use my Japanese chisel set, knives, mallet, and lots of sweat. Anyhow, it was fun and eventually got the channel the right size and depth.
Pretty new to this forum, but I've been having fun looking at everything so far! I've just finished up a magnetic knife holder and thought I'd share it here! Sorry for the long post!
Started with a beautiful piece of flamed maple. My wife works as a luthier (and I've dabbled) and saved this from a very high end shop she worked for in LA. This was probably a very old offcut from a very nice cello.
I then used a ryoba to cut make it a block. Then planed it flat using my joining plane.
Once I got it all planed flat and squared off, I took out my trusty ryoba again and cut the block in half. I'll make a second one of these sometime in the future (when I acquire some more knives )
I then flattened the rough side, I measured out the center line to make the channel to put the magnets in. Used a drill press to get it all started. After testing a bunch with the magnets I bought, I needed about 4.5mm ish thickness to get a good pull from them.
The next part was equally fun and tedious. I wanted to use hand tools for most of this and probably over complicated this. Got to use my Japanese chisel set, knives, mallet, and lots of sweat. Anyhow, it was fun and eventually got the channel the right size and depth.