Humidity, my knives worst enemy!

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This post consists of random whining, I live in the desert; I am used to 90 to 100+ degree heat, dry as a bone and no moisture. I'm fine with that, but recently our weather has changed and it was 95 degrees and extremely humid out, my clothes were soaked from sweating. I usually carry one of my two favorite knives on me, both are fixed blades and in leather sheaths, but I stopped wearing them recently because the leather would stick to my thigh, my pants were soaked, and when I reached for my knife, my mitts would stick to leather and it was uncomfortable, so I started wearing lounge shorts and carrying a pocket knife. Some of my friends asked if I was feeling alright cause I wasn't carrying my big knives, it's so out of the ordinary for me to not carry my knives in the summer, I'm always using them on something. I can't wait for this to pass!!! I reckon y'all fellas in Phoenix, down South and the East Coast don't mind it to much, but does anybody else stop carrying their favorite knives because of weather deviation, or am I just being a bitch about all of this???:grumpy:
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the two knives I usually carry.
 
Almost all of my spyderco uncoated blade hole has rust in them. But i continue using because it happens only every 2 weeks+
Used to have a benchmade mini nitrous stryker D2 uncoated. Rusted alot just from a few use. I ended up trading it away... Yes, high humidity is bad for knives. Unless u carry a bottle of oil wherever u go...
 
I carried a carbon Opinel for years working in the Arkansas forests. It did get a little sticky to open, but never had a problem with rust. Paperwork (forms, maps, notes), now that stuff barely lasted a single day in the humidity.

I worked for years also in the desert (mostly Southern New Mexico). Never had use for a large knife out there, and sure as heck wouldn't want to lug one around all day. But if I'd of really wanted to, the heat wouldn't have been a factor since I carried everything in a backpack.
 
Car wax.

Johnson paste wax.

Renaissance wax.

Beeswax.

Carnauba wax, but you'll need a buffing wheel to apply this properly.
 
Humidity sucks as well, i carried the spyderco resileince for 3 days on a camping trip and the humidity hit up the blade with a couple spots here and there of rust
 
Welcome to that always hot and muggy feeling -Louisiana.

(P.S. Really though, compared to Louisiana (Average 80-90% summer humidity) being in New Mexico is a blessing because of the cool shade and the fact that your sweat actually evaporated instead of pooling)
Also, not speaking for anyone else hear, but I do mind the humidity, alot. Sitting indoors with a descent breeze, it still feels like 100F, and outside it feels like 110F.
Luckily, the lack of rain has kept the humidity reasonably tame, but at the same time everything is hot.
 
Two words...Boeshield T9

Im going on a month with just one good coat and not a lick of rust in the 85% humidity.

I even used it in the rain the other day to cut some zipties and I just wiped it on my pants and back into the pocket.

This stuff works wonders.

Anyone with carbon steels owes it to themselves to check it out.
 
Jabaski, ditto I"m in Lafayette, have been my entire life, I love the humidity, makes us tough. I've been out west during the winter and summer and their heat isn't as hot and their cold is not as cold. Now to the op, given the humidity here I've gone to carrying only select stainless steels and titanium knives so I can cut down on maintenance issues, moreover all of my knives are used in the cleaning and or processing of wild game and or food prep so all of these magical coatings everyone talks about here do me absolutely not one bit of good because their all toxic from the stand point of not being food safe.
 
Humidity just generally sucks. We should write our congressmen to cap humidity at 30-40%.
 
Beeswax and mineral oil are food safe. If the beeswax is too thick heat it up and add mineral oil until you get a thick paste if that is easier to use. I'm in Florida and it is pretty hot and muggy and I don't have a problem even within a mile of the gulf coast. I don't use anything except a stainless knife that isn't bead blasted. I can't remember the last time I saw a speck of rust.
 
Any minimum amount of knife care will prevent rust in humid climates. I live in Central Florida and work in the Caribbean and most of my free time is spent on or in the ocean. Simply wipe off your knife once or twice a week. I use the rag I wipe excess oil off with. Sentry Solutions makes a great product as well. Seriously, your'e just spoiled by the lack of humidity and haven't been doing your due diligence :)
 
I use mineral oil and bees wax mix on my blades. Since I sometimes use it to prepare small game and as an eating utensil.
 
Ti-ta-ni-um :D

Yeah, I use those for diving and even on land.
I use stainless steel knives, so the only thing I need to do is to keep those which have leather sheaths out of them.
Besides that, I love water, rivers, sea...
 
Lol these two are stainless you know...wow that's pretty bad
have you ever tried to spray RP7 into the leather sheath?
I did it, and my knives are just fine...even they're carbon steel
 
syntaxerrorsix said:
Ti is great for corrosion resistance.

It's also way to soft for a decent cutter. Zero edge retention.
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Carved two wooden spoons with this one (a big pine wood spoon and a small Eucalyptus spoon) and it was still shaving sharp...


This one has been beaten to hell... still rocking on :D




Sure it has LESS edge retention than good steels, but it's far from ZERO.
The only thing that is a real downside is when you beat it against hard objects (metals or rocks). If you use it on wood or other things that you can actually cut, you won't notice the lack of the edge retention. Beat it against rocks and it will ding, but the wear resistance is pretty good.
 
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