Large knife guard source?

[Slamdunkpro]

Anyone have a source for the slide on knife guards that would fit either a 14 inch Cimeter or butcher knife? Even blanks that I could shape to fit would be helpful. I'm tired of poking holes in my knife case.

[David A. Goldfarb]

There's a pretty good selection at Broadway Panhandler--Messermeister and a couple of other brands. I brought in my knife roll and replaced all of mine at once around a year ago, but my longest is a 12" chef's knife, so I don't know off hand if they have a 14". They might not list them on their website, but you could call, and they could tell you if they had one that size.

[scubadoo97]

You can make a simple low cost guard with a plastic PVC file binder clip like this one. Cut it to size.

[HKDave]

The Messermeister guards come in 14". If you can't find them locally, a quick Google finds them on surlatable.com and knifemerchant.com for about $4 each.

http://www.knifemerchant.com/products.asp?categoryTraversalList=0,25,26&categoryID=26 Scroll about 1/2 way down the page.

[Slamdunkpro]

  On 1/3/2011 at 2:52 AM, HKDave said:

The Messermeister guards come in 14". If you can't find them locally, a quick Google finds them on surlatable.com and knifemerchant.com for about $4 each.

Thanks, unfortunately the only 14" guard that Messermeister makes is for a slicer and it's too thin (narrow?) to accommodate the curvature of either the cimeter or the butcher blade. The same problem exists with the plastic file binder clips. What I need is a guard that is as tall (wide?) as a chef's knife guard but 14 inches long - around 2.5" x 14".

[LizD518]

I'm not a pro, so my knifes live in a drawer but one of my knife guards is cardboard - could you fashion one out of heavy card stock?

[HKDave]

  On 1/3/2011 at 4:32 PM, Slamdunkpro said:

  On 1/3/2011 at 2:52 AM, HKDave said:

The Messermeister guards come in 14". If you can't find them locally, a quick Google finds them on surlatable.com and knifemerchant.com for about $4 each.

Thanks, unfortunately the only 14" guard that Messermeister makes is for a slicer and it's too thin (narrow?) to accommodate the curvature of either the cimeter or the butcher blade. The same problem exists with the plastic file binder clips. What I need is a guard that is as tall (wide?) as a chef's knife guard but 14 inches long - around 2.5" x 14".

You're right, my 14" guard is for a slicer and it's only about 1" deep.

OK, how about this for a simple solution: there's no rule that says you can't use 2 shorter chef's knife guards, like a 6" and an 8", on the same knife.