Knife lubricant

[Reasoned1]

I use Rem Oil in the mechanisms which is a good, light lubricant that cleans, displaces moisture, and dries leaving a thin teflon film that lubricates without capturing dust. I often use mineral oil on the blades of knives I use for food prep.

 

[stitchawl]

Urea grease, used very sparingly.


Stitchawl

 

[8steve88]

Tuf-Glide and some Hi-Slip grease also from Sentry, occasionally Smooth-Kote, that's on normal folders, the assisted openers get Hi-Slip on the torsion bar contact points or Tuf-Glide on coil springs.

 

[blades4brains]

I either use sharpening stone oil, or just your typical all-purpose oil (three in one). They keep my pivot points lubricated for a long time and work great. Hell, if you are desperate any lubricating agent will do the job.

- b4b

 

[Major Chord]

Since I'm a moderately avid air-gunner, I always seem to have a decent supply of Crosman Pellgunoil on hand, and that's what I use almost exclusively for my pivots, and most of my blades. On the one knife (A carbon steel Mora Classic) that I use exclusively for food-prep, I just keep a light coat of vegetable oil...and I'm not afraid of it going rancid since I use it at least every other day. A quick rinse and wipe before each use and I'm good to go, just in case.

 

[Dorito Monk]

So, OP, what you can take away from this is that ANY goddamn oil will work fine for knives.

 

[HotSteel]

I use Eezox, mostly for its rust prevention properties.

 

[njadam78]

check out quick release. it works great on any kind of folder or auto.

Thanks for turning me on to this stuff i love it.

 

[chefjoe]

Learn from my fail and don't get it on the tang if it's a liner lock! I thought there was a problem with my ZT0200 because the lock failed, but a squirt of brake cleaner and only lube in
the pivot fixed it.

 

[RobertK]

I've been using baby oil (mineral oil + a scent, heh. Wife picked it up!). Seems to work wonderfully well. And I can cut food w/o a concern!

 

[powernoodle]

I can't remember the last time I have lubed a knife. Were I to do so, it might just be a little blast of WD-40. But any of the above should work just fine.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

I can't remember the last time I have lubed a knife. Were I to do so, it might just be a little blast of WD-40. But any of the above should work just fine.

That pretty well describes my habits too. I make more effort to keep my knives clean, above all else, and usually give a little spritz of WD-40 after doing so. Beyond that, I generally forget about it. That's worked fine for me.

 

[Tetsujin 140.6]

Does anyone use Krytox GPL-205 as your knife lube? I haven't tried it, but have heard good things, so I would like to.

I was just going to start a thread about whether anyone had good source for this stuff other than fleabay, so if you do, please post it here.

 

[Bencher]

I use motor a synthetic motor oil.