How do you typically store/display your knives?

Sock drawer/old trunk for me.

Even my most precious of pieces are either used and kept handy or stored safely away from prying eyes and sticky fingers.

That said, I do have a clutch of large weapons that have started to occupy the corner between my gun cabinet and the wall. I think there are about 6 or 8 swords, two handed axes, and a couple spears hanging out there. They aren't on display, obviously. However I dont have a large enough official place to tuck them.

I may redo the room as it has never been painted since we bought the house over 7 years ago. It still has a wall painted like flames/gates of hell as the teenage boy who lived here was evidently angsty. It just holds my wife's treadmill, an old futon that is too dangerous to sleep on (it tips) but big enough to hide Christmas presents, and my small collection of guns. Oh and it has the one (small) closet i have been allowed to keep my clothes

Anyway, I may clean up and hang a couple of pieces this winter if I get some time and paint over the wall of vindictive flames of hades.

Lock n key

A couple of drawers in a roll-around tool chest, a rack on the door of my man cave for bayonets and oddball stuff, longer stuff on old automotive gun racks and swords and axes in a wrought iron umbrella stand.

I inherited several knives. They came with a display case, so now most of the knives I don’t regularly use are in the display case.

Nothing organized--they are where they generally are needed.
Mind, none of mine are especially valuable or noteworthy.

My knives are in top dresser drawer, three vehicles, my shop and a gun safe. Oh and my pocket and in a four compartment organizer on a cabinet by the back door. So. Not displayed but where they're handy.

Mini occupy a drawer in my giant craftsman tool chest. I would love to see some displays that are cool.

None of mine are collectable. The ones I use most are in the top dresser drawer. The ones I don't use often are in a plastic storage box. I really have too many knives.

Actually I do have a few of my EDC knives currently residing in one of my former sock drawers! Very handy and convenient to have them there. Nothing out on display. The rest are stored away in their original boxes (if they came with one), and are inside one of those folding top plastic storage bins in the basement.

Only display 3 in cases. Family heirlooms from 3 wars carried by dad, me, and my son.
The rest are in a old dresser in original boxes, rolls, or old socks whose mate disappeared to area 51 in the wash.
The E D C choices are in the sock drawer.

Not really displaying anything, I keep my MOP pocket knives in an old wooden cigar box in gun safe, everything else in a drawer of my machinist toolbox.

In 1981 I was living "on the Economy" in a small German Village that was a suburb to Hanau Germany. In my living room the land lord had placed his mothers old side board that featured a glass upper case that had a big curved glass door on each end and a long center section to display plate ware in.

Being a young(-ish) single guy I had no pretty plates and such to put in it so... I made little holder/stands for some of my knives out of coat hangers, cheap and common stuff actually ...I was proud of my AK47 bayonet ( pre AKM wire cutter)... My Gerber of the time , an Aircrew survival knife, a Privately owned M7... you know just "stuff". My land lord was thrilled.

One afternoon I got home and the landlord had three buddies in the yard and came over and ask if they could see my display. There was much OOO-ing and AAHHH-ing.

Just for giggles not long before I left and was about to package everything I filled the bottom of the long center section with a Mini-14 and a few mags and some ammo and on the top shelf stood up my Series 70 Mark IV, S&W 28, Ruger Blackhawk (.45 Combo) and CZ75.

Upon seeing these the landlord dashed up the street to round up the gang and brought them back where I thought two of them were about to faint.

I explained I was taking everything on Post in the morning for packing and one commented about "security" I explained that this WAS the last night they would be here ... and then puled up the edge of my BDU blouse so he could see the P7 in a belt slide on my right hip.

One commented about a person having so many guns and then looked on in shock as I explained this was but a fraction of what was at Mom and Dad's down in my old room back in the world.

Sometimes Poking the non shooting Euros was fun!

Euro shooters on the other hand are good folks.

It sure was that night!!!

-kBob

From my pocket to my hand.

In metal beer mugs on my dresser. The thin ones with the glass bottoms. No clip-inside, clip-hangs outside. Everything from Italian stilettos to Opinels, Bucks, Cases, etc. Quick look, make up mind and grab while dressing.

Valuable knives go in my safe, anything under a couple hundred bucks goes in a drawer , others are scattered strategically

I have a Bear and Son Bowie, a Nepalese Kukuri and a Case USMC fighter that I plan never to use displayed on stands on the top of cabinets. The rest are either pilled in a drawer or carried on me.

I don't collect knives, but I have accumulated a bunch over three score years.
Knives and bayonets are displayed in a big drawer.
I do constantly carry a Spyderco Endura.

Mine are in the safe where there's room for them. Mostly.

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