EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

These 2 for today___🤩😍

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LimpCroissant said:
Me too man, such a fantastic knife! I love Lum designs.

Oh cool, let me know what you think after using it for awhile if you don't mind. I just bought some Wicked Wax the other day and will be trying it too next time I clean a knife that I think it could be a good candidate for it. The whole reason he switched to using wax instead of oil is because oil residue on the lockbar often introduces lock stick. Even if you're very careful and only use a little oil on the washers and the tiniest drop on the detent ball, oil will often migrate down to the lockface. Many (perhaps even most) times it's fine and doesn't introduce lock stick, but seems like one out of every 20 knives or so the oil will create pretty bad lockstick and will stay until you clean the lockface off. It's not a huge deal for regular knife users because we can just clean our knives and get rid of it, but if your a knifemaker and you get customers contacting you about lock stick that could be remedied very easily yourself, but is much harder to diagnose if someone else has one of your knives and doesn't know about this.. That's when it really makes a difference and why he stopped using oil all together.
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Yeah those reasons are why I started using a light grease on my detents instead of an oil. It just doesn't run as much, and generally seems like it does the job better. Occasionally it will get wiped into the lock face but a quick wipe gets rid it. Sometimes I'll pack the grease into the detent hole of the blade, if it's large enough, so the detent ball kind of just dips itself into the grease and doesn't get wiped around on the tang as much.

I've had wicked Wax for about a year now and my typical use is for micarta. It does a really good job at bringing out the color. I will wipe on a liberal coating and leave it to soak in for several hours. Then come back and wipe it off thoroughly, and my favorite part is it doesn't feel like any residue is left behind. So it brings out the color and makes it look really nice, creates a protective layer, but unlike oil there is no oily feeling when you go to carry it. I've also used it for protecting the blade but generally use oil instead, only for as much as corrosion protection as possible. I like the stuff though, and a tin should last me a very long time. I am going to tear some knives down today to clean them and get ready to be sold, I'll use wicked Wax and see how it feels on something like a bearing flipper. It feels fine on the native, but it's a washer backlock with pretty stiff action so it's not a great candidate for evaluation.
 
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