On 03/11/2013 21:15, Adam Funk wrote:
Years ago we got a knife set with a nice wooden block at a convenient
angle. The slots in the block no longer suit some of the extra&
replacement knives& scissors,& I haven't been able to find a similar
but more versatile replacement.

It seems to me that making an angled knife block could be a simple
matter. Design an adequate length to make the angle for the last
step; a long enough block of wood& make some suitably deep& wide
slots with a circular saw; take another block& make more (for the
smaller knives); add another layer; glue the lot together; chop the
end off at an angle& glue it onto the rest to form the support.

Obviously this would be easier with a table saw, but I don't have one
(& don't have anywhere to keep one, otherwise this would be an excuse
to buy a nifty tool). Am I missing anything?

Thanks.

I made a load of knife blocks - probably 30 years ago - to sell at a
church bazaar, and we're still using one of them in our kitchen.

Each is made out of 2 pieces of 3x2 with a number of slots cut into the
3" face with a circular saw.[1] The two pieces were than glued together
with the cuts facing each other and with a piece of plywood in the
middle, forming a sandwich. I seem to remember that the wood I was using
(salvaged from computer pallets at work!) was long enough to make 2 at a
time - so I cut through at an angle after the glue had set, so that each
one had a sloping top.

[1] Can't really remember what saw I had at that time. I think it was a
B&D jobbie with a 7 1/4" blade, clamped under a third-party saw stand to
convert it into a poor man's table saw. Did the job, anyway!
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Cheers,
Roger
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