Jack wrote:
> I am on a quest. I need a knife block that appears to be out of the
> ordinary. It has to house: 2 Chinese cleavers with quite large
> blades, 1 meat cleaver with a not as large blade, 10" chef's knife, a
> long bladed carving knife, a long bladed slicing knife, a bread
> knife, a couple of smaller knives, and a steel. If it has more slots,
> that's okay. I don't need to store my steak knives here, as I have a
> separate wooden case for them.
> I can fulfill most of the requirements with many blocks on the
> market, but nothing that will also house the cleavers. There is one
> that's close, in the Katana Series by Calphalon. But they give no
> dimension on the knife slots. Googled for custom block makers, and
> other than a couple of how-to (actually more like here's an overview
> of how I built mine) I found only one: Knives by Walden. The website
> has absolutely no email address I can find, nor any brick-and-mortar
> place, or at least nothing that displays in Firefox. Dose anybody
> here l know anything about this person? I mean, even his order page
> has no button to click on to send an order!
> Failing that, does anyone here know of a good, reputable custom block
> maker?

I made one that holds 6 cleavers only but knives would be a problem either.
I didn't have power tools to do this with so I went to Lowes, bought the
wood needed then had them cut it (this is a free service at most places like
Home Depot and Lowes). Once the pieces were cut I simply hand sanded the
used epoxy to glue it together. For more information send me some email and
I'll be glade to send a picture of what it looks like. It really was pretty
inexpensive also to build, under $30. I'm now thinking of building a larger
cutting board table type that will hold about a dozen cleavers and about 30
knives. My email is straight as is.

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Joe Cilinceon