I’m sure I’m not the only one that has a knife block in addition to other knives that don’t belong in the block. I decided it was high time for the block knives to play nice and let is the others from the cold rattling drawer they were stuck in.
And it was after I saw this product on Storage Glee that I found the perfect home for all my knives to live together. {By the way, have you heard Storage Glee? It is a neat blog that opens you up to “out of the box” storage solutions and they sometimes also tell you how to make the solutions yourself. You should check it out.}
Needless to say there was link to the manufacturer who made the neat little knife container was selling for 125 dollars! 125 dollars!!! Are you kidding me! Okay, I’m calm. I should give some credit to the designer, Martin Robitsch from Austria, as he did provide me with the idea.
All I needed was a container and some skewers. I went to the store and all I could find were the really really long skewers. But that didn’t stop me, I could cut them in half and still have right length, that’s how long they were. I bought six packets of the skewers. I don’t remember the count but if I put them in my container it filled up half way; that was what I used to measure how many I needed.
Then came the daunting task of measuring and cutting. I needed them exactly half otherwise they were two small. I actually took my sewing guide ruler {the clear one that you use to cut your fabric} and a marker and marked all the skewers. As you can see below, the skewers I used were only pointy on one end, but it makes for good balance.
Using a utility knife, I slit them half way or less and put them aside.
The third and final step was to snap them off. {This was easier than sawing them all the way through.} Then stuff them in to the container. I put them “cut” side down. You want it crammed in but leave a little give to it. You’ll know if you need to take out some skewers when the knives don’t go in easily.
Really the longest and toughest part was the slicing of the skewers, I may have come out of it with a little blister. All in all, the total cost for me was $12 for the skewers and $9 for a container to hold all my utensils as they were getting booted.
I’d like to know: Have you taken a product and turned in to your own lately? What did you make?
- ASH
