I have a substantial collection of folding knifes, from various Spyderco and Benchmade to Atisan cutlery and Kershaw, and since now I'm holding them in various drawers and plastic boxes, I was thinking about building some kind of a holder/display case/mount for 10 knifes I use most frequently. My idea was to take a live edge piece of plank 1 m x 1 m x 7 cm and make some sort of cutouts with a router that would fit a knife. When forded these knives are around 10x5 cm. I was thinking about carving around 10 of those from the oak plank, smooth it out with a router bit and sanding paper, paint it and voila.. Maybe some kind of short 10 cm legs for the plank to stand on at a certain angle would be cool. Oh yes, did I mention that I'm a complete woodworking novice and I don't own a router, table saw, planer or any of that fancy stuff. I have a press drill, drill driver, some hand tools and a lot of sanding paper... I almost forgot. I don't have an orbital sander either to smooth out the surface, let alone a planer. I'm planning to buy the most basic hand held router for this project so I would be thankful to the grave if you had a go with it and make something like this with a simple set of tools....
