How do you prevent patina?

After reading about chapstick in the forums being used for rust prevention on the go, I bought some to maintain the carbon blades I care to keep in a like new appearance.
 
Easyrider said:
The individuals that recommend a stainless steel knife may be correct that it is a better option for me. I am looking VERY hard at a Northwoods Indian River Jack with 154CMP steel. Similar size to my GEC #73 and the Indian River Jack has powdered steel with excited me greatly. I have had a VERY good experience with S30v and S35v, both of which are powdered steels.

Thank you everyone; I will try the metal polish routine and if I am not happy with that then I will go get a stainless steel bladed knife.
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Please let us know how things work out for you.
Personally, the metal polish routine is a bit beyond what I'm willing to do in terms of maintenance, but we're all different. I do not shave daily either :D

Fausto
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quattromori said:
Please let us know how things work out for you.
Personally, the metal polish routine is a bit beyond what I'm willing to do in terms of maintenance, but we're all different. I do not shave daily either :D

Fausto
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I am going to try out the metal polish for a little while to see how well that works. I may find that to be more trouble than it is worth; if so then I will just live with a patina blade or sell it off for a stainless steel knife.
 
black mamba said:
The best way to prevent patina is to only use the knife on paper and plastic, and to not carry it at all if it's hot enough to make you sweat. Anything even slightly acidic or salty will cause patina. Coating the blade with wax will help, but I wouldn't want to do that if I were going to use it on food, which is the main thing that causes patina.
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That pretty much slow down the process greatly, I unintentionally do that minus the wax part. So avoiding things which speed up patina will help greatly and I think combining it with some type of preventive measure would help greatly.

My Opinel still shows very little and it's never been oiled or had wax put on it, etc. But it's mainly used to cut up cardboard and dropped back into my desk after I stop EDCing it. My main EDC now is a GEC Bullnose it will rust if I workout with it in my pocket quite easily so I only carry it when I don't plan on doing anything too physical. Once I stopped carrying it during my workouts it stopped rusting and forming the ever so slowly slight darkening of a patina. It's also only used on paper, plastic, cardboard for cutting things up as that is what I use my knives for. I have kitchen knives for cutting food.
 
Have you tried a PTFE dry spray? It dries with a bit of a rainbow color, but tend to protect against staining until you cut something that would wash the spray off (like food, but that's not good for you).
 
jc57 said:
It's actually a thread about PREVENTING patina on carbon steel blades. No reason to mention stainless steel at all.

If you have any suggestions on how to prevent or remove an unwanted patina on carbon steel, those would be on topic.
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Excepting the gentleman now recognizes that stainless might be the better option for him.



Easyrider said:
The individuals that recommend a stainless steel knife may be correct that it is a better option for me. I am looking VERY hard at a Northwoods Indian River Jack with 154CMP steel. Similar size to my GEC #73 and the Indian River Jack has powdered steel with excited me greatly. I have had a VERY good experience with S30v and S35v, both of which are powdered steels.

Thank you everyone; I will try the metal polish routine and if I am not happy with that then I will go get a stainless steel bladed knife.
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Thank heaven we told him about this spectacular new steel product. Since he has only been a member here for 14 years, it's unlikely he would have heard of it before. :D
 
jc57 said:
Thank heaven we told him about this spectacular new steel product. Since he has only been a member here for 14 years, it's unlikely he would have heard of it before. :D
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Yet he had a question, discussed it, and came to the conclusion to consider a specific stainless knife.

As an aside, your snarky comment can be applied to any discussion of patina (or practically any other knife topic too).
 
Hey, I came from modern folders so I know about stainless blades; it is carbon steel traditional knives that I am learning about. I have read about how to force a patina but not how to prevent it. I now have some ideas on how to reduce it and that patina is a fact of life for carbon blades.

I found out what I needed so please give it a break.
 
I love shiny blades. I also like all carbon steels. I use flitz every night and oil it with honing oil. It takes off the days patina and protects it for the nrxt day. On vacation, it gets pretty dark, but Flitz and som tv and my carbon steel is shiny again.

"Don't carry no ugly knife!" :)
 
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