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Where do you keep you edged friends when not carrying or using them?
I keep them in a small wooden box with drawers that I bought from ikea, but my buying rate is far greater than the space available..
I also have the problem that my fixed blades are too great to fit in the small drawers..
Any suggestion?
Cheers
Paolo
redandshane
30-03-2010, 20:57
lying about at the moment but have a wooden case
I intend to use
err.... out of the sheath and in a tea towel then in my wardrobe in a plastic storage box with all the rest of my BC kit
man_of_tanith
30-03-2010, 21:01
I have an entire shelf in my room for sharps storage apart from my main user which i keep in my pack so i dont have to search for it when i go out.
Once there are children to consider i shall probably invest in a lockable box that only i have the key to so as to disuade curious hands getting nesar them unsupervised.
Sam
drewdunnrespect
30-03-2010, 21:05
in the there protective cases (cant think of correct word but no there is one) in my ruck sack once they have been cleened and sharped or oiled and then stored in the correct pocket of my rucksack.
drew
I keep mine hanging in my fishing cupboard. The same place that i keep my secret stash of cash from the dragon!
Whoops! I've said too much.
Dazcon.
I have a small 3 drawer locking cabinet for mine. The axes are kept in a longer locker
Globetrotter.uk
30-03-2010, 21:17
I keep mine locked in the safe which is locked in a cupboard and thats locked in a room which is locked in the flat.
But someone found them using a JCB.
All over the place http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2923/ashamed053611282jy0.gif - none are drawer queens but I have a few that never get used but I don't want to part with ;)
Thankfully swmbo and the girls are used to it now so there is no need to lock / hide them away - in fact I noticed my eldest's mora on her bookcase only this evening :rolleyes: (Daddy's little girl :D )
Asa Samuel
30-03-2010, 21:23
Just on a shelf at a moment.
hatethatgiraffe
30-03-2010, 21:29
In no particular order-
wardrobe, underwear drawer, cupboard at top of stairs, box on top of wardrobe, paracord drawer, locker in work and a few in bedside cabinet :)
Swmbo likes shoes, I like knives lol
Beside the back door :D
There's usually one in my foraging bag, and one in my pack too.
Axes, billhooks, machetes, etc., lie under the kist of drawers the other side of the back door. It's clean, dry, they're accessible when I want them :D
cheers,
Toddy
I tend to keep my EDC stuff in my snugpak response bag, so its got my mora, sharpening kit, fire lighting, folding saw , wind up torch etc always in it, and i keep it in the back of the car. sometimes if im out with the dog ill clip it on, handy for lopping off antlers of road kill or random skulls you find.
Stoo.
Cap'n Badger
30-03-2010, 21:52
On the walls, bookshelves, tables an' floor....Mad Dave can testify t' this:D
Gave the CID a right start when they came around last year...hehe
in my bed
(at least my Wetterings axe is)
*Big Beast*
30-03-2010, 21:58
knives,axes,machete's`s,pellet s for the rifles & fire lighting tools/fishing gear along with a sleeping bag, a fishing bivvy & towing/recovery equipment & a tool box with spare parts for the truck are kept in locked army tool boxes in the back of my truck, i can not see me needing them while i`m in the house so i keep my equipment pretty close to hand really. Only keep the rifles in the house under lock and key.
Most are in issue tent peg bags in a draw in my bedroom, one plastic handled Mora hanging from a wall mounted can opener by the kitchen in my shed, EDC penknives and favourite leatherman in cigar box on dressing table. First leatherman in Response Pak. Grohmanns large camper hangs on headboard post of my bed when not hung round my neck.
ATB
Tom
I have a load of old basket trays and stands which came out of some old fitted wardrobes, they're screwed to the wall in the loft with all my kit arranged in them. My sharps live in a couple of wooden wine boxes with clear lids on.
It's a bit geeky but I have draws for different types of gear, it seems to work well and it's better than just chucking them in a skip I suppose.
I have all my carving tools in a leather pouch thn they go with all the others in a steel gun cabinet
Any not being used have a coat of renwax
John Fenna
30-03-2010, 22:30
Hanging as a display on my livingroom wall (handy for me to select from as I go out) in the garage over my workbench, in the kitchen draw, in my sewing room/kitstore room, on my bedside table, in jacket pockets and trouser pockets, on my office table, in my van, in the dining table draw, in my wifes car, in the attic....none in the bathroom or sparebedroom though...yet!
My axes live in my sewingroom/kitstore room, the garage, in my canoe kit, in the kitchen cupboard (next to the stove)and in my van.... I aint got as many axes as knives so they have not got as far as the bedroom yet...
Most of my sharps are just kept handy for use...even those on display are easy to take down for use.
I have a very understanding wife, no kids - and way too many sharps!
Obviouslt I haven't got as many knives as you lot but I am a bit paranoid about knives at home so I keep all my knives in my bedside chest of drawers. I figured they are safer near me as I am sufficiently light sleeper to get to them if needed! ;)
Seriously though I am a bit funny about sharps in the house. I always store my ice axes under the bed along with various hammers such as claw hammers and geological hammers, etc. I only have one knife somewhere else and that is the first SAK I was given. I don't recall where that has got to. Plus all my cooking knives are nice and handy in the kitchen in a wooden storage block so don't know why I feel my outdoors knives should be kept upstairs safely away near me.
I do have one opinel in my cutlery drawer too.
Now you don't want to ask where my other outdoors gear is kept as it would only be quicker to answer with a simple "in my house" because it is anywhere and everywhere in my house. Plus a lot in the boot of my car. I'm a hoarder and not very organised. If anyone knows where my firesteels have gotten too please let me know. :D
Front Room Woodlander
30-03-2010, 23:48
Kukris in the bedroom with a couple of Helles.
Moras in the kitchen with the Globals.
Opinels all round the house and in bags, coat pockets.
Axes and machetes hanging from the rack in the shed.
man_of_tanith
31-03-2010, 01:02
I have a load of old basket trays and stands which came out of some old fitted wardrobes, they're screwed to the wall in the loft with all my kit arranged in them. My sharps live in a couple of wooden wine boxes with clear lids on.
It's a bit geeky but I have draws for different types of gear, it seems to work well and it's better than just chucking them in a skip I suppose.
that is my long term goal/dream method of kit storage. if i could only manage it
Scattered about my room -- in packs, in drawers, on the floor, on the desk, in ammo boxes...
forestwalker
31-03-2010, 05:12
The primary users are on a hook (carved from a piece of trunk with a few branches sticking out) just by the door, there are some more in various backpacks, with the viking age kit and so on. The Wetterlings hunting axe is in the map pocket behind the drivers seat in one of the Volvos, the scandinavian forest axe is in the umbrella stand for some reason (I think there is a digging stick there as well), the carving knives are in my small toolchest.
Yes I have children, but they know better and besides have their own knives.
I keep them in a small wooden box with drawers that I bought from ikea, but my buying rate is far greater than the space available..
I'm curious about how you compare those two?!
Ours are all over the place in various drawers, but we're in the process of collecting them all into a glass cube vase, if only for inventory purposes.
Some of them are hanging on the wall. The rest are in the shed. :)
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h248/chopper692006/S8000800.jpg
Mine are all folders at the moment, so I keep one in every jacket and in handy places around the house.
I'm curious about how you compare those two?!
Forgive my bad english.
What i meant was that the number of knives that I own is continuously growing, but the space to store them (with order) is not.
So, since SWMBO is kindly complaining when she find cutting tools here and there, I know it's time to do something :lmao:
Cheers,
Paolo
Yes, I understand.
the number of knives that I own is continuously growing, but the space to store them (with order) is not.
I know only too well what you mean by that qualification! :)
So, since SWMBO is kindly complaining when she find cutting tools here and there, I know it's time to do something :lmao:
My GF has more knives than I do! At least, judging from what we've unearthed so far... and I know there must be others still...
my knives are lying around in my bedroom along with several unsheathed axes and other tools:o
pete