I wonder had you considered just drilling holes through the back of the wood and then placing the magnets inside from the back? Seems like a great way to avoid having to cut the face off the wood piece and dealing with the seam.
Nope. I found this to be a more elegant solution. Also you have to watch the point of the forstner bit when drilling from the back. The way I did it gives you the most bang for the buck from the magnets and provides a cool seamless look.
I tried Bumblechutes on my cheese cutters and it's awesome. Thanks! Next up will the the Double Ought magnum cutting board at camp. It's a big ole boy.
I made this the easy way. My board was 1/2" thick and I just set my depth stop on the drill press and drilled from the back so that the bottom of the hole was close to going through. Squirted some epoxy in to the holes and dropped the magnets in. I just filled the holes the rest of the way with the epoxy. Screwed it to the wall, looks great, works great.
Beautiful knife board and kitty; love the live edge. I made a similar board recently, and those pesky magnets are really lively…jumping from one hole to another. Thank you.
Aside from the feline intrusion, which IS undoubtably cute as heck, the knife holder looks great, especially next to the blank white brick tile backsplash! Nicole, you are one lucky woman! ... right, Marc?
Mark, why don’t you just drill holes from the back until you are about to ~1/8” depth from the front face? I did this on my knife blocks and then just epoxied in magnets. Seems like less work and then there is no glue line to contend with. Worked great for me. Always love your videos.
Great video. Thank you. We are in the process of updating our kitchen, and part of that is adding a backsplash. We currently have the knives that I've made on a magnetic strip, but I wasn't sure how I wanted to do this with the upgrade. I think you have provided me with a solution.
I love some Henckel Knives! I tried the Command strips as well on a HF tool magnetic bar to use in our camper. I placed the bar and the knives and while I was working on the paper towel setup, the Command Strips gave way and I got a few slices on my hand. Thank god they were AmazonBasic knives and not the Henckel's; I think I would have had a few stiches otherwise. Great Vid and inspiration on what to use some my ashe tree that I fell this past winter after they dry through this North Caroline summer!
Looks great! Admittedly my knives are heavier and more plentiful, but no matter what I did, double sided tape kept letting go days after I hung it, no matter how clean and smooth my surface was. I broke one of my very expensive knives the second time it fell off. It is now screwed on the wall...
Perfect! I'm about to make 3 or 4 of these for my kitchen knife collection. Purple 💜 is my choice because Prince. I wouldn't have even tried Commands strips on that back splash. On a smooth wall with latex paint it probably would have been fine. I've been rocking either Alien Tape or 3M Exterior for a while and both work great.
I built a knife block with an offcut and attached it to the wall using the command strips. They end up being a little "squishy" so you get some rock of the board when you go to remove the knives from the wood :/
Things like this that I hang on the wall only ever fall off at about 2:38AM, 2 minutes after I wake up for no reason other than to hear it fall and poo myself.
Nice. Single magnets are much better solution compared to strip. They "auto" position knifes spaced from one to another. Just... bottom of top cabinet is much better place for knifes. 1. there is much less chanse to accidently cut yourself 2. it's actualy easier to pulll the knife when it is in horisontal position. Just slide it out, no need to overcome the magnet.
Regarding the color options of the Wood Whisperer t-shirts, as Henry Ford had famously said (from his autobiography): “Any color the customer wants, as long as it's black.”
A year or so on, how's that tape holding up? I just made something similar but chose to go to the annoying effort of using some flush mount brackets, because I didn't want to trust double sided tape... But I'd love to know how it's actually held up in the real world!
This looks amazing. Not how i would have done it. But I am also not a professional or amateur or hobbyist wood worker. I would have probably routed out the magnet holes from the back and then added them from the back rather than a veneer front since the wood doesn't need to be super strong structurally Also I think you might have been using those command strips wrong. maybe not cleaning the surface well or not giving it its working time because they really do need an hour to set up. I am forced to use them since my rental doesn't allow mounting screws and I have it hanging a 2kg miniatures case with about 2KG of minuatures inside and it is holding up like a champ.
Nice, as usual. However I'm going to throw a couple of ideas here. - First, instead of cutting in the bandsaw the way you did it, you could do it in the tablesaw, Just a couple of cuts. Taking the cut in the bandsaw in the video as a reference for position and calling it "vertical", you would need to make the cut as high as your blade or the wood board allow, so the blade doesn't cut through he live edge. This cut should be as close to the (future) front of the piece as possible. The second cut would be with the board in the horizontal position, so you're left with two pieces, one with the whole live edge untouched and the front of the piece (with some kind of weird rabbet shape) and another one with a rectangular shape. Now you would make the holes in this last piece and proceed to gluet it back to the "front and beautiful" first piece. Yes, I know the blade in the bandsaw has a bigger curf but it's easier (I think) to hide the cut on the sides than along the live edge. - Just make the whole bunch of holes from behind as deep as needed, insert the magnets, glue some plugs. Yes, I know, this doesn't make such a nice video.
A seriously nice idea for a knife bar, but I have to ask: Why cut the veneer surface off and glue it back on, requiring refitting of the live edge? Why not just drill to depth from the back and plug the holes?
That turned out beautiful. How did you decide how thick to cut the veneer? This makes me want to pull the trigger on a 14” band saw with an extension I have been debating on for a year😆
I tried to make a knife block one time, and I had to mill the wood in front of the magnets to be paper thin, where I could start to see light through it. I'm surprised yours worked with magnets spaced so far apart and such thick wood in front of them. Maybe my magnets weren't rare enough? Or maybe my knives aren't magnetic enough?
I bought some NEODYM magnets from amazon and did a test fit with them. I indeed experienced the same problem. Magnets weren't strong enough unless stacked two at a time or just with a very thin layer of wood. If there's one thing I do not want will be knives falling while slightly bumping in to them or while removing one of the other knives. Still looking for affordable suitable ones.
Can you provide a source for the magnets you used? I have also tried a magnet bar, and recently bought some rare earth magnets from Amazon and even with a single piece of veneer, two magnets would not hold a knife in place.
Question: I observed you did sanding before the round over, did you go back and sand the round over off screen? Or do you normal not sand after rounding over with the router? Thank you in advance.
Overly complicated… skip the veneering and just plunge cut holes from the back with a router and hold the magnets in with plugs. No visible glue lines to try and conceal
Follow me on social media and you'll see what I'm building, including both "real" and "fake?" furniture. Just finished up a pretty complex sideboard project actually. Ultimately, I build what makes me happy. That may not be what makes you happy and I'm OK with that. You should be too. 😉
I approve the new TWW Kitty making an appearance. Very important.
I know how that kitty feels, sometimes ya just wanna taste the glue, just a little bit. 😂😂
Just a taste bröther
LOL. When was the last time you tried to taste super glue?
Remember when doing anything with double sided tape in the kitchen it’s best to make sure the surface area is free of grease. Looks great!
I wonder had you considered just drilling holes through the back of the wood and then placing the magnets inside from the back? Seems like a great way to avoid having to cut the face off the wood piece and dealing with the seam.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Just plug the holes with dowls and the magnets would never come out.
Nope. I found this to be a more elegant solution. Also you have to watch the point of the forstner bit when drilling from the back. The way I did it gives you the most bang for the buck from the magnets and provides a cool seamless look.
@@woodwhisperer Fair enough.
But you are never going to see the back?
@@woodwhisperer Seamless? Isn't there a noticable seam all the way around the edge because you cut it in half and glued it back together? 🤗
What a simple great project. Just in time for fathers day. Need to make one for Ze the barbecue master.
Great video Mark! Welcome to Missouri!
More of the cat. You and Keith Johnson can start a new trend.
Really like that, good job
Great little video. Enjoyed it very much.
Great looking project.
You just gave me a great idea for Christmas gifts, thanks.
I tried Bumblechutes on my cheese cutters and it's awesome. Thanks! Next up will the the Double Ought magnum cutting board at camp. It's a big ole boy.
I made this the easy way. My board was 1/2" thick and I just set my depth stop on the drill press and drilled from the back so that the bottom of the hole was close to going through. Squirted some epoxy in to the holes and dropped the magnets in. I just filled the holes the rest of the way with the epoxy. Screwed it to the wall, looks great, works great.
Looks pretty good. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
It looks like you have Shun knifes. These are my favorite!
Beautiful and useful! Thanks!
Nice and simple and looks great
Beautiful knife board and kitty; love the live edge. I made a similar board recently, and those pesky magnets are really lively…jumping from one hole to another. Thank you.
I think this project is for showing off your Shun knives😜
Really beautiful work, Marc! It looks great! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks, you too!
You're welcome ;)
Seeing this a year late, but that's a fun little project. Looks good Marc!
3M mounting tape is amazing too. Same stuff they use to hold emblems and stuff onto cars.
Aside from the feline intrusion, which IS undoubtably cute as heck, the knife holder looks great, especially next to the blank white brick tile backsplash! Nicole, you are one lucky woman! ... right, Marc?
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Nice.
Mark, why don’t you just drill holes from the back until you are about to ~1/8” depth from the front face? I did this on my knife blocks and then just epoxied in magnets. Seems like less work and then there is no glue line to contend with. Worked great for me.
Always love your videos.
Fun build Marc!
Thanks dude!
KITTY!
I used command strips for the knife blocks I made like this over 8 years ago and they are still holding strong (on marble subway tile).
Great video. Thank you. We are in the process of updating our kitchen, and part of that is adding a backsplash. We currently have the knives that I've made on a magnetic strip, but I wasn't sure how I wanted to do this with the upgrade. I think you have provided me with a solution.
I love some Henckel Knives! I tried the Command strips as well on a HF tool magnetic bar to use in our camper. I placed the bar and the knives and while I was working on the paper towel setup, the Command Strips gave way and I got a few slices on my hand. Thank god they were AmazonBasic knives and not the Henckel's; I think I would have had a few stiches otherwise. Great Vid and inspiration on what to use some my ashe tree that I fell this past winter after they dry through this North Caroline summer!
My Henkels are 43 years old this year, and still command mad respect! Good to know about the command strips on an RV wall. Thanks!
Looks great!
Admittedly my knives are heavier and more plentiful, but no matter what I did, double sided tape kept letting go days after I hung it, no matter how clean and smooth my surface was. I broke one of my very expensive knives the second time it fell off.
It is now screwed on the wall...
Loved it!!
Perfect! I'm about to make 3 or 4 of these for my kitchen knife collection. Purple 💜 is my choice because Prince.
I wouldn't have even tried Commands strips on that back splash. On a smooth wall with latex paint it probably would have been fine. I've been rocking either Alien Tape or 3M Exterior for a while and both work great.
5:06 I don’t know why you’re blaming Nicole when it’s clearly Matt’s fault 😁
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Great Video. I often have the opposite issue where the adhesive tape or strips wont stick to the finished wood....
I built a knife block with an offcut and attached it to the wall using the command strips. They end up being a little "squishy" so you get some rock of the board when you go to remove the knives from the wood :/
This would be interesting to make using a branch so you have 2 live edges and horizontal differentiation/deviation
Things like this that I hang on the wall only ever fall off at about 2:38AM, 2 minutes after I wake up for no reason other than to hear it fall and poo myself.
A shop cat / barn cat / farm cat. Awesome! Keep those mice away!
Hey Marc it looked like when you put the magnets in you changed the polarity, is there a reason for this?
Nice.
Single magnets are much better solution compared to strip. They "auto" position knifes spaced from one to another.
Just... bottom of top cabinet is much better place for knifes.
1. there is much less chanse to accidently cut yourself
2. it's actualy easier to pulll the knife when it is in horisontal position. Just slide it out, no need to overcome the magnet.
Regarding the color options of the Wood Whisperer t-shirts, as Henry Ford had famously said (from his autobiography): “Any color the customer wants, as long as it's black.”
Gorgeous! Except for the colour scheme - keep the purple sheers and ditch the red knife ;-)
You appeared to be doing your woodworking in your jimjams. Nice knife rack despite that.
A year or so on, how's that tape holding up? I just made something similar but chose to go to the annoying effort of using some flush mount brackets, because I didn't want to trust double sided tape... But I'd love to know how it's actually held up in the real world!
This looks amazing. Not how i would have done it. But I am also not a professional or amateur or hobbyist wood worker. I would have probably routed out the magnet holes from the back and then added them from the back rather than a veneer front since the wood doesn't need to be super strong structurally Also I think you might have been using those command strips wrong. maybe not cleaning the surface well or not giving it its working time because they really do need an hour to set up. I am forced to use them since my rental doesn't allow mounting screws and I have it hanging a 2kg miniatures case with about 2KG of minuatures inside and it is holding up like a champ.
All I could think was Eric Cartman yelling "KITTEH NO!! NO KITTEH!!!"
Nice project. But the WW needs some fancier Japanese knives!
What saw blade is on that bandsaw?!? It left such a smooth cut.
Great job! It was still a few. Few is 3-7. 😂
out of curiosity, why not stagger the magnets for better coverage?
I figured that might encourage them to sit off-90. It’s worth experimenting to see.
Nice, as usual. However I'm going to throw a couple of ideas here.
- First, instead of cutting in the bandsaw the way you did it, you could do it in the tablesaw, Just a couple of cuts. Taking the cut in the bandsaw in the video as a reference for position and calling it "vertical", you would need to make the cut as high as your blade or the wood board allow, so the blade doesn't cut through he live edge. This cut should be as close to the (future) front of the piece as possible. The second cut would be with the board in the horizontal position, so you're left with two pieces, one with the whole live edge untouched and the front of the piece (with some kind of weird rabbet shape) and another one with a rectangular shape. Now you would make the holes in this last piece and proceed to gluet it back to the "front and beautiful" first piece. Yes, I know the blade in the bandsaw has a bigger curf but it's easier (I think) to hide the cut on the sides than along the live edge.
- Just make the whole bunch of holes from behind as deep as needed, insert the magnets, glue some plugs. Yes, I know, this doesn't make such a nice video.
Is that shop cat a permanent addition to the firehouse?
Yup.
A seriously nice idea for a knife bar, but I have to ask: Why cut the veneer surface off and glue it back on, requiring refitting of the live edge? Why not just drill to depth from the back and plug the holes?
The kitty is a good thing, especially in knife holders. Just ask the cat.
Marc, can you let us know how you made that zero clearance block fort the Kapex? Or you can just let me know and we’ll keep it confidential 😅
That turned out beautiful. How did you decide how thick to cut the veneer? This makes me want to pull the trigger on a 14” band saw with an extension I have been debating on for a year😆
Buy once, cry once
Looks great, but why not just drill the holes for the magnets from behind and skip the whole glue up?
I tried to make a knife block one time, and I had to mill the wood in front of the magnets to be paper thin, where I could start to see light through it. I'm surprised yours worked with magnets spaced so far apart and such thick wood in front of them. Maybe my magnets weren't rare enough? Or maybe my knives aren't magnetic enough?
I bought some NEODYM magnets from amazon and did a test fit with them. I indeed experienced the same problem. Magnets weren't strong enough unless stacked two at a time or just with a very thin layer of wood.
If there's one thing I do not want will be knives falling while slightly bumping in to them or while removing one of the other knives.
Still looking for affordable suitable ones.
Can you provide a source for the magnets you used? I have also tried a magnet bar, and recently bought some rare earth magnets from Amazon and even with a single piece of veneer, two magnets would not hold a knife in place.
cool
More kitty in videos!
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Just remember to turn towards the spine when using haha
Question: I observed you did sanding before the round over, did you go back and sand the round over off screen? Or do you normal not sand after rounding over with the router? Thank you in advance.
I guess we know what Jason has to look forward to in his future. 😂
Wouldn’t it have been easier to drill the holes for the magnets from the backside and then glue in plugs to secure them?
Easier, but this is more elegant.
You wouldn't be able to drill to the full depth needed because of the point on the forstner bit
@@MatthewBuntyn drill as deeply as is safe. drop in the magnets. plug them in, then sand the front face to the desired thickness
You run the risk of drilling too far and it wouldn't make nearly as entertaining of a video lol.
Hi , what brand of sharp knives are you using in the kitchen?
Cool video. Curious where you got that metal drill press fence. Is that original to the drill or an add on?
mag-tools.com/products/drill-press-fence-pro?_pos=2&_sid=103ce61ff&_ss=r
Excellent. Thank you!
I’m trying to find your episode about a table with thin strips used for legs. I don’t know what to call it?
Here kitty kitty kitty. 😂
Curiosity glued the cat?
why not "drill" plunge routing from the back? I usually do that way... no veneer needed
This way is cooler. 🤓
@@woodwhisperer lol I agree
You know how many of these things are going to be made???
When did you get a shop cat?
Are you worried at all about damaging the tile if you decide to take it off? I've been hesitant to do the same in my kitchen.
Dribble some alcohol between the piece and the wall and it comes off nicely.
@@dwightl5863 Oh good to know!
I pulled smooth shiny subway tiles off the wall after using Gorilla tape. It was an easy fix, but caused a few anxious moments !!
We plan to re-do the kitchen at some point in the near future, so if it pulls tiles off it might be doing me a favor. 😂
Why not just set the depth stop and forstner from the rear? Save a whole lot of cutting and glueing...
Did your real estate agent get you that red knife? Looks exactly like the red knife I got from my agent.
OK that's funny. So this is a real estate agent thing? Because yes, we got that when we sold our last house, lol
Who is the tuxedo assistant?
That’s Oreo.
Time will tell how the gorilla tape holds up . Maybe an update down the road or perhaps some folks can chime in with reviews of it .
It’s flexible and elegant, but I can’t look at an exposed-blade knife rack without thinking about (un)safety.
Unless you’re roommates with Magneto it’s perfectly safe.
Live edge meh, idea yeah!
Overly complicated… skip the veneering and just plunge cut holes from the back with a router and hold the magnets in with plugs. No visible glue lines to try and conceal
When do you start buildng real furniture again?. 😢
Follow me on social media and you'll see what I'm building, including both "real" and "fake?" furniture. Just finished up a pretty complex sideboard project actually. Ultimately, I build what makes me happy. That may not be what makes you happy and I'm OK with that. You should be too. 😉