Summary
| Biz |
Biz Biz |
| Maker |
Project Somedays |
| Title |
Magnetic Knifeblock |
| 📅 Started |
2025-04-07 |
| 📅 Completed |
2025-04-07 |
| 🕒 Taken |
~6hrs |
| 🤯 Concept |
Lasercut the profile of the knives and mount them magnetically |
| 🔎 Focus |
CAD skills/laser cutting |
Resources:
🎓 Lessons Learned 🎓
- Colanders are good for protecting drying epoxy from curious cats. They are, however, magnetic 🤣
- A thin coating of epoxy is very much best, followed by a good fine grit sand. Too thick it stays tacky.
- Don’t let school children gather outside the vent of your laser cutter. Enough said.
Stretch Goals/Extension Ideas
TODO:
🪵Dev Log🪵
2025-04-07 Smashing it out
- Took a photo of the knives in the layout I want
- Calibrate and trace in illustrator
- Positioned the magnets and offset shapes
2025-04-08 Laser Cutting
- Laser at 40% power at a low feed to cut to 2mm deep: took off a LOT of material and released a fair amount of smoke but it was totally worth it for the nice clean recess. Originally, this was going to be an experiment in CNC, but the tightness of the corners was proving an issue.
2025-04-09 Epoxy work
- Just regular off-the-shelf Bunnings 2 part epoxy
- Got some help from a steady hand 🥰
