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I've been coming on here for a while talking about how my CV knives rust in my pocket here in Sunny Florida, that being wet most of the day ruins them, etc., and I kept getting back that so and so carried one for years here in Florida, in sweaty, hot humid conditions, in salt water,, etc., and they never rusted. That I MUST be doing something wrong. Well, I've given most of my CV knives to co-workers, and they have come up to me with my same issues. "Hey, my knife is rusting up. What do I do?" I look at the blades, and just as has been happening to me, they are all rusted up. What is up with that? I guess my job, with all it's exposure to the outdoors all day, 90 + degree weather, and lots and lots of sweat, is not conducive to a carbon steel blade. I'm glad this is happening. I was begining to think there was something wrong with me.;)
 
In those conditions, be thankful that really decent stainless DOES exist (Contrary to what some may say:D )
 
I have heard that if you get a good patina on a blade to start with, they do not rust as easily as if they were straight out of the factory packaging. there are many ways to prematurely patina the blade, I think that by cutting into a lemon will also patina the blade, there are other methods out there, that I'm sure others know of.

Rusty1
 
Whow, no help there then, do not know what so and so must have been using to stave off the brown monster.

Rusty1
 
I have had blued carbon steel rust, and that is generally more resistant than a good patina. I have even had rust develop on some stainless steels. It depends on a number of factors, some of which I have never figured out. I have even noticed that a Case CV penknife in my watch pocket rusts more readily than my 8OT stockman in my right front pocket. Go figure.

Don't save your money for silver bullets, 'cause you AIN'T the Lone Ranger! :D
 
I got my first stainless pocket knife because I was tired of fighting the rust monster, and I was moving to the coastal Texas area which would have made it worse. I oiled my carbon pocket knives and didn't use them the whole time I lived there.

I will now carry whichever, because I appreciate the performance qualities of both, but I accept when I carry carbon that it demands more maintenance. If I still lived in a humid area, I would probably just carry stainless and forget about it.
 
yablanowitz said:
I have had blued carbon steel rust, and that is generally more resistant than a good patina. I have even had rust develop on some stainless steels. It depends on a number of factors, some of which I have never figured out. I have even noticed that a Case CV penknife in my watch pocket rusts more readily than my 8OT stockman in my right front pocket. Go figure.
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Yeah, well corrosion engineers are in the same boat, there yablanowitz and TheDoggyGuru. Corrosion is a chemical reaction and is sensitive to many variables. Even when running corrosion tests in a controlled environment, proper procedure is to run control panels whose corrosion performance is already known to make sure everything ran correctly during the exposure. When you go out into the real world the variability is even worse. Two samples, what we think is the same exposure, different results. There are exceptions to predicted performance all over the place. The best one can do when predicting corrosion performance is generalities rather than absolutes.

Knarf
 
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