Knife care : Things NOT to do.

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I often wrap my knives in an oiled(barricade) cotton cloth.
The black synthetic handles of my Case frontier bowie now have grey streaks.

I'm going to try leaving them in rice overnight to try and drawn some oil out.


Anyone one have things they have learned NOT to do when storing bayonets, knives, machetes, swords...

i'm very interested, especially in not ruining the scales while protecting the blade.
 
I just wax them with Renaissance Wax and store them outside the sheath if it's a leather sheath. Knives with Kydex sheaths get stored in the sheath. No problems so far.
 
Agreed on the wax.

I use White Lightning which has wax in suspension.
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I also put a zrust capsule in the drawer with them.
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DO oil horn and wood, to ensure they don't crack.

Don't sweat on your knife and neglect oiling it as soon as you can.
Don't forget to clean 52100 as absolutely soon as you can.
 
I use penetrating oil on my blades, same stuff I put on my guns. I guess you have to be careful of certain synthetic handles, is all.

I have cans of paste wax for woodworking. I have never found it to work worth a darn in protecting anything I've tried it on. Wood, saw tables, hand saws, etc. I use penetrating oil on any iron/steel surface, now, and save the wax for bullet lube.

OP, if I had that problem, I'd try sawdust. Fine sawdust has some incredible cleaning properties. It's like paper towels on steroids. It has more surface area, more abrasive action, and it's all freshly cut end grain, ready to soak up oil/water.

I squirt some solvent on sawdust for cleaning up uncured epoxy (so I can reuse the measuring cups, for instance), residue left from peeling labels, and for dirty oil and ground metal stains. Just pile it on and rub it around. It's especially magic on the label residue. Even where rags and acetone would take a lot of elbow grease and time (and ruin the rag), sawdust plus the appropriate solvent does the job nearly instantly and effortlessly, leaving a squeaky clean surface in no time.

Bandsaw sawdust is the primo stuff. :)
 
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