In-Drawer Knife Block -- Compact

The items in my Etsy shop shop derive from my abhorrence of wasting wood, especially beautiful hardwoods. How can anyone trash fine pieces of black walnut, cherry, oak, mahogany, maple, hickory? Yet woodshops everywhere do so every day as you will see from this very short explanation of how woodworkers work:

First, a board is ripped usually on a table saw to the required width. Ideally a board is chosen that closely matches the final width, but these long strips of many feet, varying from a sliver to a couple inches, have no utility to the project at hand.  The Cheese Serving Board was designed to utilize these narrow strips and make something useful out of them. Fatter cutoff strips exceeding 1½ inches can be used to make the Wooden Teaspoon in.... 

Trash???

Second, a board is crosscut usually on a power miter box to the required length. This inevitably leaves a useless short chuck of wood when the cross cuts are done. Rather than go into the trash such chunks become Mini Cutting Boards as well as Wooden Teaspoon in....

Thus up until now items in my Etsy shop were designed to utilize waste wood from larger operations. The In-Drawer Knife Block is a departure from this principle as the thicker oak was specifically purchased for its fabrication. We wanted our knives convenient but out-of-sight.  Finding this particular kitchen organizing accessory, however, was not easy...so why not make it instead?

Singular wooden ware + hand carved teaspoons at:   FlyingCircusStudios.Etsy.com