How does one pack knives safely?

[politicat]

I know not to throw them in a box. The things we have used in the past - wrapping the blades in cardboard, inserting the blades into something - have been unpleasant workarounds.

Is there a safe way to move knives?

[Stinky The Clown]

1. I assume this is preperatory to your move? How do you store them

when in use? In a drawer? is the drawer divided? if so, remove the drawer and move them in that. If the drawer can't be moved, then I can think of no other way but to wrap them. But ... try this ......

Get a long piece of cloth that is about 18" wide. You could fold a cloth in half the achieve this. Lay in your first knife, roll the cloth a bit, insert the next knife ... and so on. When you come to your small knives, put one above the other and treat the two small ones as one large one.

When you're done, you'll have a roll of knives that you can easily move. The cloth will protect them sufficinetly.

[politicat]

2. Bad DU, double posting like that....As if we can afford the bandwidth.

Don't you know there are DUers starving on dialup lines?

[politicat]

3. Unfortunately, we're leaving the dividers in the bye-bye house....

DH spent a long time lovingly building them INTO the drawers for his ex, who did not appreciate them. Getting them out of the drawers would destroy both drawers and indrawer divider rack thing. (It's so cool....) The drawers are built into the cabinets..

The cloth idea sounds good... I guess this would also be a good time to weed out those sticky-pokies I don't use much, huh?

[eleny]

4. Hi

Did you already find a new state?!

[politicat]

5. No, not that lucky.

We managed to sell DH's house (After 3 years on the market and for less than it appraised) so we're moving back into my house (the one I had rented). We'll live there for a year or so while we figure out where we wanna go, and get the new one on the market, too.

[NMDemDist2]

6. take a strip of packing tape and tape the sharp edge. learned that

from thrift store shopping where they always throw all the knives in one section and it would be dangerous to dig through

it works very well just stick the tape along one length and fold over the sharp side and stick it together (did that make sense?)

edit to add, Barkeeper's Friend will remove any glue when you unpack