Is it clean?

When is your knife clean?

  • I don't use my knives

    Votes: 2 4.8%

  • After soap, water, hand towel polishing, and air dry

    Votes: 3 7.1%

  • Occasional soap, mostly rinse off and wipe dry

    Votes: 32 76.2%

  • I leave them dirty

    Votes: 2 4.8%

  • Not satisfied until It looks brand new

    Votes: 3 7.1%
  • Total voters
    42
I wash it off in the sink, then go eat a sammich.... Oh wait, I was thinking of a different task
 
Wipe on my jeans put it back in my pocket. Every once in a blue moon my daily carry knife gets a proper cleaning but that’s at most a few times a month. Scary because I’m known to use my carry knife for everything from opening boxes to scraping gaskets to cutting steak. One minute it’s cutting a tire patch the next it’s dispatching a wounded bird my dog “hunted” on a walk. A knife is a tool to be used as such.
 
One wipe is clean, two is sterile. If I need to clean tape gunk, I've got metholated spirits on hand, and maybe for the carbon steel stuff, a wipe of moose milk. The only knives that see soap are my kitchen knives after meats, and my fillet knife. I'd rather spend a minute sharpening than a minute cleaning.
 
They don’t ever get very dirty by my standards, I don’t require a sterile knife as a mechanic, but if they get some residue on the blades I will wipe them off, sometimes with brake cleaner, sometimes they get a light wipe down with oil of carbon steel. When the handles get dirty and dusty I mostly just blow them out with air.

Rarely I will clean them further by breaking them down and wiping the old oil and such out and relube friction parts.
 
I have a thing where I'm kind of OCD with cleaning my carry knives and phones after I get home from work. My hands get a bit greasy and nasty throughout my workday and I'm handling said objects throughout the day. When I get home, I spray a bit of windex on a piece of a paper towel and wipe down my 2 phones and whatever knives I carried. They always come out squeaky clean. I used to use rubbing alcohol on the paper towel instead, however I found that the windex wasn't quite so harse (yet still enough of a degreaser) and doesn't dry out my fingers like the alcohol does.
 
I’ll carry and use a pocket knife for about a month usually before they begin to get gummed up with tape from boxes. At which point I’ll blow some isopropyl alcohol through them with canned air and wipe them down. Then I’ll blow oil through them. Then I’ll add a dab of Tetra grease to the pivot. Quick and easy.
 
Depends on what I use them for. Cutting tape, sticks, cardboard etc then it gets cleaned when I resharpen it. If I use it to cut food or the like then it gets a quick wash just so I don't get food juices in my pocket or have them go off and start stinking.
 
LimpCroissant said:
I have a thing where I'm kind of OCD with cleaning my carry knives and phones after I get home from work. My hands get a bit greasy and nasty throughout my workday and I'm handling said objects throughout the day. When I get home, I spray a bit of windex on a piece of a paper towel and wipe down my 2 phones and whatever knives I carried.
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Back during covid, I would put my phone in a resealable sandwich bag. I could still use the touch screen through the bag, and it saved me from having to clean my phone all the time. Have you tried that?
 
Guy McVer said:
Back during covid, I would put my phone in a resealable sandwich bag. I could still use the touch screen through the bag, and it saved me from having to clean my phone all the time. Have you tried that?
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No i haven't. Thanks for the recommendation, however I'm not quite concerned enough to put something around it. I'm on and off it a lot throughout the day and like to just have it streamlined. I used to have a rubber type drybag for an older phone for when I was going into the outdoors while it's raining. It kept it dry, however the touch screen was hindered a bit.
 
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