Sheath Storage

[Spyder59]

Forgive my naïveté, but I keep my knives in a Craftsman drawer in the garage in a dry environment. All my knives that have sheaths I usually have kept stored in those sheaths. I have heard a few times that you shouldn't keep your knives stored in their sheaths. This runs a little counter intuitive to me. So why not store them in their sheaths?

 

[tathanas00]

Leather holds moisture and can oxide the blade over long periods of contact

 

[Spyder59]

Leather holds moisture and can oxide the blade over long periods of contact

Thanks- makes sense to me now.

 

[gadgetgeek]

That is more critical with chrome tanned leather, veg tanned is less so. also depends on the steel, and the storage. For example, I keep a couple knives in a sealed box with a large desiccant pack, and have had no problems. but I've seen another knife (154cm blade) get corrosion spots from its nylon sheath, stored in open air in a high humidity environment. Nylon likes water, so that is not a surprise to me. If you are just storing knives in a drawer, I'd keep the sheaths separate, as that will be naturally a higher humidity zone.