Magnetic knife rack

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My collection of knives is growing by the day and I'm fast outgrowing my current knife block - something which has led me to consider a wall-mounted magnetic knife rack.

Problem is, I don't want a metal one. They look a bit cheap and they have a tendency to scratch the knives if you're not careful what you're doing. And while you can get metal racks with little rubber runners on them, they look awful. And I don't want a bamboo one either, as it would stick out like a sore thumb in my kitchen.

So, I'm wondering what to do. I've seen these offerings but I'm not so keen on the little brass screws as they seem to stand out a bit. I'd really want something that looked like a solid piece of wood; similar to this, but not that eye-wateringly expensive.

One of these would be a cheap alternative, but it's a little too short at 30cm, and I'm not totally sold on a beech one like this either.

So, any ideas?
 
Ah I get you now! You could use normal (non brass) screws I guess but not sure how much that would help
or put a knife over them :p
 
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If you can find wood that ou like, you can buy neodymium magnets (rare earth, v v powerful). Find a nice strong magnet suitable for it. Buy a forster bit, and drill into the wood until 1-2mm shy of the front. Then using araldite, cement the magnets into place.

If you cannot find what you want, then hack it!
 
I'm guessing part of the problem with the beech one is its colour - you could stain it darker easily enough.
 
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PhillyDee said:
If you can find wood that ou like, you can buy neodymium magnets (rare earth, v v powerful). Find a nice strong magnet suitable for it. Buy a forster bit, and drill into the wood until 1-2mm shy of the front. Then using araldite, cement the magnets into place.

If you cannot find what you want, then hack it!
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Strip down old hard drives for some nice magnets. I've got a fridge covered in them. :D Holds pretty much everything in place well.
 
PhillyDee said:
If you can find wood that ou like, you can buy neodymium magnets (rare earth, v v powerful). Find a nice strong magnet suitable for it. Buy a forster bit, and drill into the wood until 1-2mm shy of the front. Then using araldite, cement the magnets into place.

If you cannot find what you want, then hack it!
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That sounds dangerously like DIY, which I'm pretty useless at.

And ideally I'd want these earth magnets running along in a big strip, unless I could get the holes close enough together to make it seem like one long strip.

Are earth magnets likely to be easy enough to 'snap' the knives off from the other side? Or will they grab and not let go?
 
I have some good quality knives and have been using a 45cm Kitchen Craft Deluxe Cast Magnetic Knife Rack from the forest and works perfectly and doesn't scratch blades as there is a plastic runner to stop magnets scratching blades anyway.

Thinking of buying another and they don't look tacky!
 
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