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shibu_thomas87

Knife stuck in drawer!

5 years ago

We have a knife that somehow (we have no clue how) got stuck in our drawer. There are 2 knife blocks in the drawer, and it's jammed pretty good, like you'll see in the picture of the knife wedged against the top plywood support. I was able to cut out the bottom of the drawer toward the front, and i'm able to get items in there to try to free it, but it's so far back that I can't reach it well. Seems like my only 2 options are to cut out the whole bottom of the drawer, which I don't want to do since both knife blocks just fit. The other option is to somehow remove the drawer front. But I can't figure out how to remove it as it only seems to be held by some sort of clips that attach to the drawer sides.



Yellow arrrow points to the brass and plastic that I think is holding the drawer front on each side. Anyone see this before and know how to remove the drawer front? I checked and there is no other place where it is attached.



Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated it!

Comments (14)

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    I can vaguely make out what's going on in the drawer. I had a similar situation where a tray got wedged in one of my kitchen drawers, Took me two days to get the thing unstuck. Can you get a wire coat hanger to loop around knife and pull it forward while pushing the drawer back in?

    What type of drawer slides do you have? Can you undo the drawer from the slides? On newer cabinets, there should be a lever underneath each side of the drawer. Normally, you pinch the lever and it releases the drawer from the slides.

  • 5 years ago

    post some pics of drawer front and drawer hardware from another drawer.

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  • 5 years ago

    @User i've tried a bunch of ways to get it unstuck after cutting the front facing bottom of the drawer. I can only get so far in because of the knife blocks. The bottoms of the drawer and back don't seem to have an additional levers or access to get unstuck. The obstruction is a steak knife where the handle is wedged between the knife block and plywood cabinet support. The pointy end of the knife is stuck in the knife block itself and probably stuck good from my forcible attempts to pull the drawer open. I was able to get an 18" metal ruler in and pull down on the knife handle and it did move slightly as I observed with the borescope. I think the next challenge is to get the knife point unstuck, but that means I have to get back even deeper. :(


    @tina d i'm trying to upload now.

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    I had to post them separately for some reason.

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    5 years ago

    Maybe try a mechanics magnet? The heavy duty one on a telescoping rod. Meant for fishing dropped metal bits out of engine compartments.

  • 5 years ago

    I am sorry that I am no help. The trick to getting my drawer unstuck was to push it IN rather than having the drawer pulled all the way out. I was able to get the tray moved with a coat hanger.

  • 5 years ago

    @beesneeds thanks for the suggestion! I just picked up 2 from Harbor Freight. Will update later on.

  • 5 years ago

    Looking at the photo of the side of the drawer - perhaps there is hardware under the gray piece that you can unscrew? Can you pull the stuck drawer out far enough to take off the gray cover piece?

  • 5 years ago

    Shibu Thomas - Any luck!


    If you have a cabinet underneath the stuck drawer, have you tried climbing in the cabinet and reaching up to get at the stuck knife handle?

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