Building Table Stab Box! Easy DIY Blade Holder.

The blade rolled off the table and fell onto the floor. I knelt down to search for it, but the shadows underneath my work table made it hard to pick the knife out. I reached out, feeling further under the table, when suddenly a sharp pain caused me to cry out in agony!

The knife, angry at being dropped carelessly onto the ground, attacked me over and over, and by the end of that night I was eating through a tube in the ER... Well, maybe it's not that serious. But I'm sure that we've all had that moment where we've dropped a blade after setting it aside just to have it stab us later when we go to pick it up.

Today, I'm going to be showing you how to build a solution to this problem- the building knife stab box. If you have a retractable blade, this may not be such an issue, but as an X-Acto knife user this simple stab box, made out of scrap foam and a few dabs of hot glue, has helped me countless times to get into the routine of always putting the knife back where it's supposed to go, and remembering where it is when I need it.

For this how- to, you're going to want to dig into your endless supplies of scrap foam.

We're going to start out by simply cutting five rectangles. I make mine 2" by 3", but depending on how many blades you have you can make your rectangles smaller or larger.

After cutting the five rectangles, we're going to make two more rectangles.These rectangles should be 2" by whatever (long) dimension you chose to cut your previous rectangles. These rectangles are going to form the sidewalls of the stab box.

Now heat up your hot glue gun and clear the scrap foam from the scrap foam off your table. Once the gun is heated up, we'll be gluing the five rectangles first. Place four dabs of glue on the corners of one rectangle, and then stack another rectangle piece on top of it.

Don't smear the glue across the entire rectangle as you don't want your knife to be cutting through glue- only foam. Repeat this process until you have a box of foam that looks like the one in the video.

Now smear some glue onto the sidewalls and attach them to the sides of the box. One side of the sidewall should be flush with the top of the box while the other side overhangs a bit. This overhang will serve as a standoff for your stab box so you're never stabbing the knife into the table.

Now, chose a place on your work table that's out of the way. This is going to be the spot that you glue down the stab box, so make sure that it actually is really and truly out of the way.When you've decided on your spot, use four dabs of glue to secure the sidewalls to the table as seen in the picture.

Since we've only used four dabs of glue to secure the box, it can be easily removed if needed. I decided to put mine on the edge of my work table.

Stab a few blades into it, and w're good to go! If you don't have holder for your workspace blades, the stab box is a great way to keep them organized. It's a cheap, simple, and fast way to make sure your blades are where you need them, when you need them, and it's a good way to use up scrap foam. In fact, the stab box might very well prevent you from ever losing a blade... again!

I hope you found the Stab Box a useful addition to your worktable, and now it's time to get back to building. If the stab box gets in your way, just pry it up and set it in a more convenient location with four dots of glue. Happy Flying everyone!