Okay just about finished.
You can see my trusty mineral oil and the thing on the right holds butchers twine.
All of this done with scraps.
To make the knife rack all I did was plunge cut the center of a 1X4 and run it to the other end then lower the blade agian so you dont cut it in half.
The leftovers of this board was cut in half and used for the mounting brackets.
So the one 1X4X8 made the back splash the knife rack and the mounting brackets.
There was little more than sawdust left over.
Worth
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