Беспорядок на кухне — это проблема, знакомая to many. Very often, cooking in such an environment becomes a real torture, as you have to search for a ladle, cutting board or knife for ages. In addition, many today use expensive ceramic knives that may become unusable after a fall or when they come into contact with other objects. But some of these problems can be solved quite simply. To do this, you just need to figure out how to make a stand for knives, and make this useful device.
Materials
Previously, a knife stand was usually madefrom a tree. However, today, along with it, other materials are used. For example, lately many people are wondering how comfortable a stand for knives filled with polypropylene. Also popular are homemade variations of bamboo sticks or various bulk materials that are poured into transparent plastic containers.
Simple knife holder
Making such a kitchen fixtureIt only takes you a couple of minutes. To do this, you need a few packs of bamboo sticks. If you are lazy or you do not know how to make wooden boxes, then just take some transparent plastic vessel in the shape of a cylinder or a parallelepiped. Next you should cut the sticks so that they look out of the vessel no more than 1-2 mm. You can also paint them in different colors. Then you will only have to put the sticks into the vessel, and the stand will be ready.
If you are not afraid of carpentry work, then you will not be difficult to make a parallelepiped of 4 boards long with a bamboo stick and one square board.
Stand with filler
Recently very popularuse the "store" options, similar to the previous one. For example, many buyers have already appreciated the advantages that polypropylene knife stands have, in which bamboo sticks are replaced with fibers made from this material.
As a rule, monochromatic plastic vessels are used in such products. They can be revived using decoupage technique, using napkins with a large pattern.
Self-such kitchen applianceseasy to make with your own hands with other fillers. For example, in a high transparent flask with a diameter of 15 cm, you can cover the legumes and cereals (lentils of different colors, rice, small beans, etc.) in layers. In this case, you get a stand, which will also serve as an element of kitchen decor.
Stand for knives do it yourself from the rails
This is a very simple kitchen fixture that anyone who knows how to work with a saw and drive nails can make.
You will need 81 square rake. They should be 1-2 cm longer than the blade of the longest kitchen knife you have in your house, and 1.5 cm wide.
This wooden stand for knives is made as follows:
- take a square board 16x16 cm;
- using a ruler, a line is drawn on it in a horizontal and vertical direction with a pencil (the first one - retreating from the edge by 7.5 cm, and the rest - with a step of 1.8 cm);
- mark the point of intersection;
- grease one end of the slats with wood glue;
- nail it to the board in marked places(you can use screws, pre-drill in the right places shallow holes, but then the rubber feet should be glued to the base of the product from the outside, otherwise it will not be sustainable);
- when all the slats are nailed, take a thin strip with a thickness of less than 1 cm and a length of 16 cm and stick it on the stand so as to form a “belt”;
- paint the base or lacquer the outside.
If you know how to burn on wood, you can pre-put on a stand any pattern.
Another wooden option
For the manufacture of such a stand for a relativelyshort knives will require a base board 1 cm thick larger than the width of the blade of your largest knife. You can choose its height yourself, but it cannot exceed 20 cm. As for the width, if you need to place six knives, it should be 30 cm.
The manufacture of the stand is made in the following order:
- the board is cut into bars with an indent of 3 cm at an angle of about 35-40 degrees according to the number of knives, starting from the upper right corner;
- all parts are thoroughly polished;
- take a board 2-3 cm thick, 3 times wider than the bars and longer than the base on the length of the knife in cm;
- a straight line is drawn in the center;
- glue the trapezoidal piece of the base and the bars with an indent of 1 cm;
- on two sides, glue a wooden plank 2 cm wide on the base;
- fixed at the edges with screws;
- covered with lacquer or painted in some dark color.
Original stand: materials and tools
An interesting option in the form of a warrior with a shield will be able toto make those who can cut pieces of plywood using a jigsaw. Especially easy for such a functional decoration for the kitchen can be made if you have the opportunity to work on a special CNC machine working according to a given program.
You will need:
- plywood sheets of size (70 x 29 x 1.5 cm, 46 x 34 x 1.5 cm, 35 x 34 x 1.5 cm, 26 x 34 x 1.5 cm);
- round magnet with a diameter of 2.5, and a thickness of 5 cm;
- 8-10 6-mm chopik;
- clear nail polish;
- furniture glue;
- face mill;
- sandpaper;
- mill for smoothing corners.
Operating procedure
A stand for knives in the form of a warrior is made in the following order:
- plywood cut out all the parts in double quantity, since then they should be glued together in pairs using choopyks;
- the main parts are bonded with glue and spikes;
- A magnet is embedded into the soldier’s helmet, on which a device for sharpening knives will be mounted;
- cover the entire product with varnish for wooden products.
Option with magnets
Such a primitive stand for your kniveshands can be made in just a couple of minutes. To do this, on a sandpaper treated and varnished sawn logs fix small flat magnets in large quantities. Hang it on the wall and just "stick" knives.
Now you know how a universal knife stand can be made and you can clean up your kitchen.
