Best way to care for a knife you just carry?

jaime_lion said:
For sandwiches I use a kitchen knife, for boxes I use a box cutter if I have more than one box to cut, for branches I use sheers or a saw, and for string I can see using a pocket knife or scissors depending where I am at.
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Sometimes I use a knife to clean under my grubby fingernails.
 
On a serious note. My sister, who has been ling in Austria for something like 3 years, got me a Glock Field Knife like yours for Christmas. The seath is so difficult to manipulate one hand (maybe it needs some break in period) that while the knife itself seems very well suited for stabbing whatever needs to be stabbed, I find the seath useless for self defense purposes. If you want to carry this knife, you would probably need a custom seath which allows you to deploy it faster. Kydex or leather, your choice. I know I would make a kyxex one because I am more proficient with Kydex than leather
 
Put your knife in a pocket slip, and then wrap the pocket slip into custom hanky. But remember to wrap the custom hanky to user hanky so that the custom hanky looks good in your insta pics. :)
 
Obvious commentary bait aside, it's pretty straightforward to care for a knife and keep it in perfect functioning order:

- Clean dust and lint out of the knife. Compressed air cans are good for this.
- Apply some sort of protecting oil to the knife. I like Tuff-Glide for this.
- Check the screws once a week or so. Just give them a check with whatever bit is needed to make sure they are secure.
- Wipe off fingerprints from the blade to prevent staining.

That's pretty much it!
 
Mikel_24 said:
On a serious note. My sister, who has been ling in Austria for something like 3 years, got me a Glock Field Knife like yours for Christmas. The seath is so difficult to manipulate one hand (maybe it needs some break in period) that while the knife itself seems very well suited for stabbing whatever needs to be stabbed, I find the seath useless for self defense purposes. If you want to carry this knife, you would probably need a custom seath which allows you to deploy it faster. Kydex or leather, your choice. I know I would make a kyxex one because I am more proficient with Kydex than leather
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So I am right handed so what I do is have the non-bent portion of the guard facing behind me when it is on the right side of my belt and I put my index finger under that and pull up while I push the retention clip away with my thumb. The knife pops up into my hand.

Is this fast enough for self defense I am not sure but I am in the process of looking for another sheath.
 
If you only plan on using it for self defense, never clean it. The more bacteria on the blade, the better. Just try not to cut yourself.
 
Fixed blade carried in a sheath daily but not used? I would suggest giving it a very light coating of mineral oil and inspecting it about once every few weeks. The Glock blades are phosphate coated 1095, so that should do it. If for some reason it gets wet (like if you are wearing it while out in the rain) I would remove it from the sheath until the sheath is fully dry.
 
Hickory n steel said:
I'm going to be very honest with you right now.
You do not belong here.

This is a knife forum for knife people which you are not, a knife person carries a knife to cut stuff.
A knife person doesn't carry only one knife to not cut stuff, and chooses instead to tear,use teeth, and search for scissors.
We cannot be serious when talking to you, we just can't.
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Pot calling Kettle, come in please, over.
 
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I carry my knives daily they don't always get used for anything general use it light duty and all mine are folders. I would still follow the same maintenance with a singular fixed blade carried w/ no use of light oil w/ mineral oil monthly or bi-monthly. I would also add that I would try to clean the sheath depending on what the sheath is made of determines how I would clean it.
 
I just cut a donut in half with mine. I'm not sure why I did so, I still gobbled the whole thing down like a fatty.
 
jaime_lion said:
What state are you referencing? I am pretty sure South Dakota does not care about anything other than conceal carrying a gun.
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While this might be true, last I knew it's also against the law to carry (or really have access to) a weapon of any kind during the commission of a crime here. It's been a while since I read the law and I'm certainly no legal expert, but I remember thinking that the wording didn't really seem to place any limits on what could be considered a weapon or set a bar for the seriousness of the crime. A Vic classic in your pocket while jaywalking or speeding could theoretically be breaking that law if local law enforcement and the state's attorney decided for whatever reason to press the issue. There's also local ordinances to consider. I know Rapid City had a local blade length limit for carry for example.

Where exactly in South Dakota do you live that you feel the need to carry a dedicated knife as a "weapon"? This is, for the most part, a pretty safe place to live. The vast majority of the trouble that you do see certainly doesn't rise to the level of threat where pulling a knife won't net you a nice fat prison term. The last thing South Dakota knife enthusiasts need is someone giving lawmakers who want their name attached to something a bad example to look at and reconsider all of the freedom we have here to own and carry the knives we want. For self defense, you're way better off getting a concealed weapon permit and carrying a pistol unless that's legally not an option. It's easy here. The application is literally only a half sheet of paper for the standard permit. That's possibly part of why it's generally such a safe and polite place to live.
 
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