- Joined
- Jul 25, 2006
- Messages
- 28,098
- Reaction score
- 1,279
Gents,
Since we're about to adopt, the state dictates that I lock up my knives. I have a few options, but the one I prefer by far is a locking in-drawer box, which I can make myself pretty easily. Here's the rub - the drawer is generously sized, but once you account for the box material, it's not quite tall enough to accommodate my largest knives. I'm now thinking that the knives can be slanted a bit in storage - instead of storing them like this: lllll, I could try to store them like: //////
What I'm not yet comfortable with is how this might affect the edge. If you keep the knife vertical, the bevel doesn't have pressure to bend one way or the other. Kept slanted, the edge now has pressure to bend. How much pressure? Not much, but then again, there's a pretty keen edge there.
Am I overthinking this? Probably, but I didn't want to find myself having to regrind all my big knives just cause I didn't think this through. Any thoughts?
Since we're about to adopt, the state dictates that I lock up my knives. I have a few options, but the one I prefer by far is a locking in-drawer box, which I can make myself pretty easily. Here's the rub - the drawer is generously sized, but once you account for the box material, it's not quite tall enough to accommodate my largest knives. I'm now thinking that the knives can be slanted a bit in storage - instead of storing them like this: lllll, I could try to store them like: //////
What I'm not yet comfortable with is how this might affect the edge. If you keep the knife vertical, the bevel doesn't have pressure to bend one way or the other. Kept slanted, the edge now has pressure to bend. How much pressure? Not much, but then again, there's a pretty keen edge there.
Am I overthinking this? Probably, but I didn't want to find myself having to regrind all my big knives just cause I didn't think this through. Any thoughts?