What lube do you use to lubricant your knives

Anything you want.

Food safe a priority? Mineral oil.
Beyond that, whatever floats your boat.
 
I've found that G96 gun oil and very small amount of olive oil work very well since that's what I have laying around the house.

I did just pick up a tube of graphite powder from Lowes yesterday. I'll be trying it on pivots of a few knives and I'll let you know how that'll turn out.
 
I personally use an old can of Smith's Honing Oil, mainly because I use it sometimes when sharpening anyway. It's mineral oil based, and I don't know that it's much else.

I am very eager to try nano oil though, I hear it's in another class as far as smoothness, though I wouldn't know personally.

I am also interested in Froglube, both as a lubricant and rust inhibitor. It performed very well in Loonybin's Rust Prevention Test, and it's food safe to boot. Most of my knives are non-stainless, and I'm hoping to grab a few Japanese Kitchen knives in what I hear is very reactive Hitachi White steel, so rust prevention and food safety are also on my list. A product that covers all these bases is hard to pass up.

EDIT TO ADD: I can also vouch for Graphite powder, I use it as a lubricant when I can get a hold of it, I actually prefer the feel over mineral oil. In my experience, however, it doesn't last as long per application as the oil (could just be my imagination).
 
Skimo said:
Anything you want.

Food safe a priority? Mineral oil.
Beyond that, whatever floats your boat.
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You answer is about as good as it gets. Different lubes last longer or shorter, protect against oxidation a little better or a little worse, cost more or less, etc., but they all do about the same thing. WD-40 will keep a pivot smooth pretty much just like MicroMegaSuperLube.
 
I use Cleanzoil exclusively. I have some small needle bottles that I can refill with an 8oz. bottle. It's good on metal,wood, leather and plastic.
 
Progold Extreme. It's what I use on my race bikes, so I've got a ton of it around.. Smells awful, but it doesn't take much to work. It comes in the refillable needle applicator that Mossyhorn mentioned, so you can cleanly get it on the pivot.

If that's too rich for your blood, any bike shop in the country will have "Tri-Flow" lube for dirt cheap.

Whatever you end up using should be low viscosity :)
 
Used to apply Tuf-Glide along with Marine Tuf-Cloth until i stopped used it cuz the smell was just too unbearable, especially when used indoors :barf: , so i switched to using RJ London's Rust Guard instead.

Works just about fine for me, it's relatively cheap and gives a rather interestingly pleasant smell to boot. :D
 
I switched from Tuf-Glide & Marine Tuf-Cloth to Froglube on many of my knives recently and like the results so far.
 
Tuffglide but lately I've been using my Hornady One Shot dry lube. I use it for my guns and my reloader. Works great on the pivot of knives also.
 
ive been using blue lube by benchmade for a few months now, applied it to a tough to flick open folder and it now glides open, havn't needed to reapply.
 
FP-10 but then again it's just a knife not a turbine any liquid that claims to be a lubricating oil would probably be just fine.
 
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