What do you oil your knives with?

[Notredame11211]

What oil do you guys use to prevent rust on your carbon steel knives?

[JEEP]

Cheap bicycle chain oil from the supermarket.

[Fletching]

Olive oil for general coating as I've usually got loads of it but camellia oil after a full wet-stone sharpen.

[CanadianMike]

Recently I've gotten into forcing a patina by soaking the blade in hot white vinegar for about 5mins, haven't seen any rust since i've started (and the knives are O1 which seems to want to corrode easily). Outside of that, if the knife will be used for food, olive oil is what I'd go for. If not, such as my GB axe, gun oil.

Been told though, that raw sheep's wool has lanolin in it, is good for rubbing on leather to help waterproof it, so it'd likely be a good alternative for carbon steel blades.

[Celt_Ginger]

Gun oil works for me. It's usually Napier Gun Oil with VP90 which is a rust inhibitor.

[Kiltie]

+1 for Camelia oil

[Shewie]

If it's a blade I prep food with then it's veg oil out of the kitchen, for all my other stuff I spray some WD40 onto a kitchen towel and wipe it on

[Matt]

Gun oil for me too.

Matt.

[Notredame11211]

I know that gun oil works well but is it food safe?

[Fletching]

Not with VP90 in it. Or any additives come to that. If your using your knife for skinning and/or food prep, go with veg/olive oil. It degrades faster than gun oil so you'll have to use it more often, but better to be safe than sorry.

Steve