Knife Lube: What's your method?

When I rebuild my knives I mostly use Finish line extreme Fluoro grease, especially on my CRK's.

On knives I cannot take apart or rarely take apart, I use either Tuf-Glide or Tri-Flow
 
For my framelocks, I take them apart haphazardly, clean them, and put some blue lube on them, then reassemble. For my Axis Lock Benchmades, I painstakingly disassemble them, clean them, lose half of the parts, find them again, begin to reassemble them, get incredibly irate, walk away, come back, get angry again, wait for the planets to align, then finish assembling them, before working in some blue lube from the sides because I wiped off all the lube I initially put on it trying to reassemble the knife.
 
There is almost never a reason to disassemble a knife.
The reason new knives have screws is for ease of ASSEMBLY, not for disassembly.
Most any quality lubricant works fine, and knives can be cleaned with a WD 40 or brake cleaner flush, or detergent and water.
 
I dunno about that... I work in an industrial environment and at home my knives see a lot of yard time cutting roots, potting soil bags, and concrete bags. So, they get all kinds of nasty stuff in them. I just like to make sure I get it all out so I don't leave abrasive or corrosive material in the knife. It's just like maintaining a firearm... Could I just run a boresnake through and spray it down with oil and be done? Yes. But coming from an industrial maintenance background, I like to tear it down to make sure everything is in good working order so I can find pieces that are wearing incorrectly or prematurely before I get a surprise while using them.

I understand that, from the view of the manufacturer, you don't want knives disassembled because people can be very stupid (in general and this certainly does not apply to the fine people that peruse these forums) and will screw something up and in turn blame it on the manufacturer. From a consumer standpoint, however, should you have the abilities to properly break down, maintain, and reassemble an item. You should. Knowing the inner workings of anything mechanical will give you insight on its functions and limitations. Then, you can use the right tool for the right job rather than breaking it trying to make it work for a job it is ill suited to. Plus, when things go wrong you can be a better educated customer when trying to fix it through the manufacturer or through your own means. Is this right for everyone? No, but I feel this is the correct method for me.
 
I can't get my hands on anything locally aside from benchmade blue lube, so it's all I've tried. Is tuf glide or fluorinated grease any better and/or worth ordering if I live in Canada and might have to use said lube on myself to ease the potential rape in exchange/shipping/duty?
 
wash with ajax liquid dish soap, lube with left over dribbles of 5/30 synthetic dispensed from a small pin point applicator, RemOil always around so we use it as well (if we can find the darn pin point pipe for the aerosol head that goes missing all the time). have a compressor and 7 gallon air tank in garage, but have not felt the need to dry with compressed air… keep thinking to put some old paste car wax in another pin point applicator, but again what i already do has worked for decades.
 
"The reason new knives have screws is for ease of ASSEMBLY, not for disassembly."
worthy of remembering for quoting when someone breaks something trying to fix it-
 
Frog lube on all the parts, then a light coating of Finish Line Flouro grease on the pivot washers. That's my minimum, most of my knives get much more attention

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another vote here for Triflow
 
Breakfree CLP for all small devices - knives, firearms, fishing reels, etc.
The proper way to use it is strip the device down as far as practical, apply to all parts, let stand a few hours, then wipe with dry cotton cloth till it looks and feels like it's all gone.
In the case of bearings, like on fishing reels and some knives - soak, blow dry, wipe dry. Repeat till there's nothing left to wipe, and looks and feels dry.
 
Tuff glide. Doesn't leave that jerry curl slick. But amost any lubricant oil will do.
 
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