Normal knife block holds 8 on the slant ie chef knives and 6 on the bottom for steak knives. I want to enlarge a slot to fit a cheese knife. I need a quarter inch more. The slots do not go through the bottom. Hack saw blade? Better idea please.
Sabre saw? It wouldn't be pretty but maybe drill holes along the slot.
cheese knife ? And for all these many years I've just used the paring knife ! What do I know ...
Yeah, I've got the big Old Hickory knife, the small Old Hickory Knife, and the thin Old Hickory knife that gets the food prep done.
A cheese wire might be handy if the wire is long enough to use as a garrote.
I don't suppose you have a hand router?
The only cheese "knife" I know uses a wire strung between two metal rods. Is that what Thomas is referring to.
Your url shows nothing similar except for the garrote.
A thin rectangular shaped file?
That sounds like a good start.
Wood a chain saw kerf be too wide?
Thick blade, saber saw or probably better a small circular saw or table saw.
Go all the way from the slot to the edge of the block. Then glue in a thin shim from the edge to the width you need. Really this is the only way you'll end up with something decent looking.
A stainless steel rasp, something like
I assumed that he wanted a longer slot - not a wider slot ? just because " 1/4 inch more " makes for a hefty thick knife blade ! If indeed he needs a 1/4 inch wider slot - I'd probably look at other options for the cheese knife - like adding on a piece of decorative matching / contrasting wood to form an external slot or holder. John T.
Maybe one of those small $5 chainsaws I keep getting emails about. Do you get the emails?
I thought answers would explain this to me but they haven't.
I still don't know if you want the slot to be wider or longer.
I would think you mean wider, but your own suggestion of a hack saw blade makes me think you want longer. ???
Maybe what you are not looking for but brings to mind an old DYI knife block I made years ago:
In your case with tools I have, I would try taking my electric drill to ream out slot. Might take some kind of extension to get deep enough and clean up with chisel and files.
I also assumed the same thing. For example a 1 mm thick slot that is about
25 millimeters long that he wanted to make 30 millimeters long instead.For that, I'd buy a 1 mm by anything (say twenty millimeters wide) rectangular file that I could use the thin edge to lengthen the slot.
That would lengthen the slot without widening it (if the file was thin enough).
However, wood-block wood is generally hard wood so it would take a while. But it was the only way I could think of to get a uniform slot all around.
Pic. The slit above holds a prep knife that fits it but also then would need a bigger slot for the prep if I switched them.
1/8" morticing chisel.
I might razor a score and dig it with a sharp screwdriver. Bench grinder coming up. I do not want to spend on a 20 dollar knife but it is way to sharp to toss in a drawer.
Some people protect knives in a drawer with plastic sleeves.
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