This is a very handsome and functional accent to your kitchen that I highly recommend you purchase if you have the space for it. It measures 18 inches lengthwise, 2 1/8 inches wide, and just about 1 inch deep. The magnet is powerful and you will have no issues with your knives sticking to it. And really that's the one issue with this product.

As supplied, there are two screws and two wimpy wall anchors. They are more than adequate to support the knife strip and the weight of your knives. However, unless you are just displaying knives that you'll never use, the repetitive nature of pulling off the knives will either eventually pull the knife strip off the wall or break the wood that the screw heads insert into.

Here is what I did to better attach this knife strip to my wall. First, the distance between the center of each mounting hole is about 14 inches (so about 2 inches from each side, though I measured 4.5cm). Place the knife strip on the wall where you want to mount it, make sure it is level, then mark each of the four corners with a pencil. Ideally, you can align one of the mounting holes with a wall stud but I wasn't that lucky. Draw lines horizontally from each of the corner points inwardly (2 inches or 4.5cm in my case, you should double check your actual knife strip to confirm those numbers). Then draw a vertical line between those new points. You should now have 4 corner points marked and two vertical lines about 14 inches from each other.

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