Seasoning carbon steel

[plowboy]

I have a question for all of you out there. I wanted to see what you think about "seasoning" a knife blade with natural lubricant. For example, many blackpowder shooters will "season" the barrel on their smokepoles to help prevent the corrosion caused by the powder residue. To do this a non-petroleum lubricant is used on the barrel to "season" it similar to an old iron skillet.

Are there any drawbacks to doing this to a blade. I am wanting to use Thompson/Center bore butter on A-2 steel to, hopefully, help prevent rusting. I am thinking of leaving the blades in my car in hot weather and getting the steel very "warm" before immediately applying the bore butter. Will this work or are there any problems with this.

Your thoughts? Thanks in advance.

 

[rebeltf]

Naw... I'm curious though what that lube is made from. Hmm looked at the website , looks ok.
Personally I would use my personal preference to protect my blade/s , my fave is used much the same way , apply and let cure , wipe off and do you stuff.
There are probably 1000 threads on lube's on BF with several different products being touted and several different opinions as to whats best.

 

[plowboy]

Thanks, rebeltf. You know I usually do a search before thinking about starting a thread...I didn't do that this morning (just got trigger happy, I mean thread happy). I notice there are a couple of fairly recent threads that deal with my topic.

I apologize for the new thread

 

[Cliff Stamp]

Generally seasoning requires very high heat, easily enough to pass the temper on most blades and thus isn't advisible generally. However applying a natural oil or fat is common on carbon blades to protect them from corrosion.

-Cliff