Salt 1...RUST?!

gundude73

gundude73

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seems like a bad dream, nearly all my knives have corrosion. i've had a salt 1 a little while and was very happy with the rustproof H1.

upon closer inspection, it looks like my salt 1 has some corrosion on it! egads!! :eek:

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it was kind of hard to photograph, its near the tip on the hollow ground portion of the blade. at least it should be easy enough to clean off. :D
 
Can't see it, but did you do any recent cutting or sharpening where you may have imbedded other metals into your H1 blade? That might be the source for any fine "rust" you discover on your knife. I've seen this on other "stainless" knives before.

Also, while H1 steel is theoretically rustproof, it is not corrosion-proof, so you may be observing some other type of non-water corrosion.
 
Remember, too, that rust has approximately 5x the volume of the iron consumed by it. It wouldn't take very much "foreign" steel on the blade for that to happen.
 
CWL said:
Can't see it, but did you do any recent cutting or sharpening where you may have imbedded other metals into your H1 blade? That might be the source for any fine "rust" you discover on your knife. I've seen this on other "stainless" knives before.

Also, while H1 steel is theoretically rustproof, it is not corrosion-proof, so you may be observing some other type of non-water corrosion.
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there are two dots on the blade. kind of hard to see in the pic but its there. i dont remember cutting anything that held metal in it, but you never know.
 
It's really tough to see in the picture. I must admit, I've neglected the hell out of my Tasman Salt and it still isn't showing any signs of rust or dulling. I would have to agree with the above that a bit of non stainless might be causing the spots or the possibility of non water corrosion.
 
Have you been stropping it? It may have picked up steel residue from the strop.

If that's the case, it will wipe off.
 
scotchleaf said:
Mine did too:

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That's really interesting, but since it is only isolated to the scoring on the "1" and not he "H", I would still suspect residue left-over from the etching tool and not selective rusting of the H1 steel itself.
 
CWL said:
That's really interesting, but since it is only isolated to the scoring on the "1" and not he "H", I would still suspect residue left-over from the etching tool and not selective rusting of the H1 steel itself.
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Bingo

That was addressed awhile ago.

H1 is physically impossible to rust. Corrode yes, rust no
 
You guys who live in humid places always crack me up. I've got 10-year-old knives in carbon steel here that have never seen a drop of oil. They still look like I bought them yesterday.
 
SoCal is dry.

Matt is the problem, he's extremely acidic. Probably the gallon of coffee he drinks daily :p

FWIW I have an 0-1 tool steel knife that's stayed perfect here
 
Samael said:
You guys who live in humid places always crack me up. I've got 10-year-old knives in carbon steel here that have never seen a drop of oil. They still look like I bought them yesterday.
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It isn't the humidity, Gundude has toxic chemistry. He is an acid factory. :D

Then the kidney stones appear...:(
 
Gotta drink some water once in a while, pure coffee all day everyday isn't a good thing on the kidneys, or knives as seen.
 
My Salt mostly lives in the PFD I use for Kayaking and Jet Skiing. It's not uncommon for me to forget it is there until a few days after it was in salt water. No rust so far....
 
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