Rusty Ang Khola

I frequently wipe down my blades with mineral oil. Firearm exteriors, too, for that matter.

John
 
Coincidentally, this weekend while looking through some of my knife collection (which includes many carbon steel knives), to my horror I found rust spots on my Ang Khola. The rust pitted the surface no matter how hard I tried to polish it. This has never happened to me before, and many of my blades have been stored for years. Not sure, but I attribute this to a slightly damp sheath, somehow. My question is: do you folks store your khukris in their sheaths? My HI khukris are the only blades that I store in their sheaths. What do you folks recommend? Thanks for all the advice and input.
 
Try a Dremmel with a polishing mop and some white jewelers rouge - worked for me. I now keep mine in their sheaths in a box with some silica sachets to absorb any moisture, having first put the sheaths into the airing cupboard where my hot-water cylinder is overnight (would not recommend any longer as it may dry out too much!).
 
i belive all butter has some salt added to it when its being made slated butter just has extra salt added while its made atleast thats what i heard on the history channel
 
Ghost, some baby powder with cornstarch sprinkled on the blade might help keep moisture at bay for long-term storage.
 
Try using tea oil (sometimes sold, much more expensively, as "camellia oil") on the blade. It's food-safe, and I've read that it was the favored Japanese blade protector of centuries past.
 
i belive all butter has some salt added to it when its being made slated butter just has extra salt added while its made atleast thats what i heard on the history channel

Sorry but no. Well at least not here in the USA, you can buy either salted or non-salted butter in most any grocery and definitely in any supermarket.
Some folks use the non-salted butter for baking pies and cakes and other non-savory items....

I still wouldn't use any dairy or vegetable oils of any kind unless it was an emergency and nothing else was available, still wouldn't use salted butter as a clean dry blade is less likely to have problems.
When I first came here someone recommended olive oil as a good oil for any blades that potentially was gonna be used for food preparation and I lathered my 18" AK in the nasty stuff.
It didn't take long at all to go rancid and it got so damned sticky I could hardly get my AK in or out of its scabbard! :grumpy:
Then I started using food grade silicon spray and it helped make my AK less sticky but it wasn't until I started using Ballistol that everything finally settled down and got too where it needed too be.:thumbup: :D
But mineral oil is cheap and easily obtainable and a good substitute for when you are out of or getting way low on Ballistol.:o
I really need to order some....:rolleyes: :o
 
I just bought some renaissance wax and applied it. When lightly buffed it goes totally invisible. I am now worrying that I have removed all of the wax!!!! It cannot be so good that you cannot detect it!!!! Surely. Anyone have experience of Renaissance? Is it that undetectable?
 
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