care and feeding of a BK5

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So, I know I'm getting a BK5 for Christmas (having a wishlist on the river-themed site is handy :-)). Seems like lots of you use your BK5s for cooking, 'cause they're very good at slicing and dicing. I was thinking I'd let mine live in the kitchen, and be used by the family when preparing food. Now ordinarily, our "kitchen knives" wind up in the dishwasher... That going to hurt the BK5 (i.e. do I need to insist on hand washing)? If hand washing is the rule, then how do you adequately get into the areas where the grip bolts are? The other question I have is around water getting under the grivory. Seems like water would/could get trapped in there, and cause problems (over time).
 
Hand wash. Tip down. Get water on only what's dirty. I blow the water out of the bolt holes, towel dry, and put a drop of oil in. Or get stainless hardware. Water under the scales with the blade coated ain't gonna do nothing harmful. Not to the blade, the grivory, or the micarta you will eventually get. If you strip it, Oil under there regularly.
 
clich said:
Hand wash. Tip down. Get water on only what's dirty. I blow the water out of the bolt holes, towel dry, and put a drop of oil in. Or get stainless hardware. Water under the scales with the blade coated ain't gonna do nothing harmful. Not to the blade, the grivory, or the micarta you will eventually get. If you strip it, Oil under there regularly.
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Oil with food safe oil!

Still need a BK5

Jeremy
 
Got a new BK5 on August 27, just over three months ago. Decided first of this week to touch it up on the sharpmaker. In the process I noticed some rust on the nuts holding the grivory scales in place. Replaced the original hardware with stainless hardware. No rust on the knife under the grivory scales so the black coating must help.

The rusting had just started after three months of daily kitchen use with hand washing and drying after each use. No dishwasher involved. After drying, the BK5 was left on the counter to air dry, then stored in the original sheath until next use.

Conclusion . . . the BK5 hardware WILL eventually rust. Stainless hardware will not. Problem solved! :thumbup:
 
Where'd you get the stainless hardware? When I lost a bolt on my BK9, I couldn't find anything that would even fit, locally, let alone something stainless.
 
Thanks for the source, Clich... Just ordered me three sets (gonna put 'em on my 2 and 9, too).
 
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