Thank you all for the advice, condolences and well wishes. The pictures of the knives on the carpet and towels is where I spread them out to dry. That's in a finished area of the basement where I evacuated
my shops contents to. I've got 2 box fans and several smaller ones at full power and my high capacity dehumidifier chugging along. It drains right into the floor drain and its been going non stop. The knives have been about 75% gone through and dried blade by blade. The only casualty so far is the finish on my silverware chests. The piano I've decided to finally disassemble. For both ease and utilitarian purposes I've opted for a piece by piece methodical breakdown. Once the piano is gone I'll have more room for a real bench or more practical shelves.
Am pausing on the breakdown to research a bit. It seems there's a significant amount of tension on the piano wires, I don't want this to become a dangerous endeavor.
The silver lining here is that I've been wanting to disassemble and salvage this piano for a long time now, and maybe there will be money or good coins stashed inside
Also everyone gets to see a majority of my non- user knife accumulation since it's all spread out. My wife included
Oh and my 12 gauge pump got wet but is fine, same with the Ruger.
