Know a good non-toxic knife oil?

spinnerbob · 08-08-2006, 09:57 PM

Even my good, stainless benchmade knives rust a little when coast-range hunting. And I use'em for everything, including preparing my meals. A lot of the good gun oils and reel oils say "Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed."

Are there any good non-toxic oils to keep on the knife in the field? Stuff that holds up well and doesn't dry out?

Preciate'cher help.

gottafish · 08-09-2006, 12:36 AM

Crisco

C-lice · 08-09-2006, 05:35 AM

Any kind of vegetable oil will work.

DavidH · 08-09-2006, 06:15 AM

Ballistol was designed for what you are requesting. You can use it on your firearms too. The Japanese use Camelia Oil for carbon steels.

baltz526 · 08-09-2006, 06:35 AM

i like stained/rusty knives. never put anything on them but dish soap to cut the game fat, while cooking them on the stove. to clean them after the season i sometimes clean them with 0000 steelwool soaked with wd40 or gunoil

Hunt'nFish · 08-09-2006, 01:46 PM

I've never paid it any mind. I wash my knives too before I put them away. But the pant leg works just as good. :grin:

But I suppose that cooking oil would do fine.
But spit isn't toxic and is more readily avalible in the field!

Hunt'nFish