Yes I think it’s great especially for the price. I didn’t know about The incidental food contact part though thanks for the heads up….stay safe and take care.
Id be scared to use it around food not because its not safe , but the by products used to make it ended up in 90% on the human bodies on the planet as a 'forever chemical'. If you are one of the customers who might care about this I hope this helps you.
I like to get different views on oils for my knives so thanks for the video. I've been using Lucas Fishing Reel Oil and everything I've heard is that the oil impregnates into the metal and it's been working really well on my knives. I cast 100's to 1000 times when I go fishing so if it's good enough for that kind of usage, it should be good for folders....for me anyway, it's been working great! No gumming up, no build up and folders just keep on working.
RHINO 54 That’s the thing as long as it works why not use it. At one point I was too wrapped up in the latest and greatest next best thing and my OCD was taking over...lol.
@@BOOSTEDLASER I ended up picking up some KPL and it’s ok nothing crazy special although I like the three different thicknesses. I would have to say my favourite lube now is some super lube mixed with either KPL or Nano the thinnest one as the super lube is just a tad thick, so 75% super lube and thin it out with 25 percent nano 5 for me that’s the best. If I had a choice I like nano over KPL as I think the nano doesn’t dry up as fast. It’s not an over night thing, but after 5 months nano will be more liquid. I hope this helps take care knife knerd.
Cool video, I've been trying out similar products as well. Have you tried air tool oil for pivot bearings/washers? I use a tiny dap of superlube on the detent ball and track. I thought about trying out sil glide as well, commonly used to lube brake caliper sliding pins. Nano oil, while 'available' in Canada as mentioned is still fricken expensive.
Yes Nano oil is crazy here. Ive pretty much stuck with Superlube and occasionally Benchmade Blue Lube with Nano Oil mixed together. My Nano Oil Tube broke so I had to combine lubes. Ive tried some of the grease type lubes, but most Ive tried seem to get a little too hard, but if you ever have good luck with one let me know. Take care and stay safe.
@@TheBigCanucker Thank you for your reply. You could also check out refillable precision oiler's available on amazon. Take care and stay safe as well. So far the air tool oil seems to be working good. Cheap and readily available, viscosity is about a 5w apparently.
I’m fortunate enough to work with equipment that requires some super expensive turbine oil I believe. (Used for the bearings in a driveshaft balancer) I think I’m going to give that a try. If anyone replies, I’ll come back with the name of it if anyone is interested.
"Very viscous" means thicker (higher weight) 😁 I'm just starting out with pocket knives and am getting the Superlube from Amazon as it's cheap and readily available (I'm also in Canada). Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the video! Very informative, but l think many knife people are interested in one more aspect - safety on foods. What l am looking for is something that will keep my knife relatively (not super) smooth and keep my carbon/d2 blades from corrosion but at the same time make me feel safe to occasionally cut a fruit for my kid. I ended up using food grade mineral oil but the problem is it doesn’t last on the knife. Can you recommend anything?
Ataleph Doh! I completely forgot to mention anything to do with food safety that’s my bad. I don’t worry about rust on my blades because I live in such a dry area, but to prevent rust on blades I would suggest either the EDCi spray from Aegis in the video or also another product called Frog Lube both are supposed to be non toxic and the EDCi seems to work for me, but like I said it’s very dry where I live so take that with a grain of salt. When using the frog lube I’ve been told to heat your blade up with a heat gun or hair dryer for best results. I hope this helps and take care.
Ataleph The frog lube is food grade safe and as for the EDCi spray it doesn’t say food grade, but if memory serves me the owner Jim Skelton says it is, but that they didn’t want to pay for the testing, so also take that with a grain of salt. I hope this helps.
@@jj9936 if you are ordering a lube for a balisong and are looking for a thicker lube that won’t fling off perhaps check out nano lube 30 which might work better. I hope this helps take care.
@@jj9936 sorry buddy my fault for some reason I thought it was nano 30, but I was thinking about the nano 85 weight which is quite a bit thicker then either the Nano 10 or the Super lube.
I've been using Daiwa reel oil lately. Prior I was putting mineral oil in everything, but this reel oil seems better suited to folder pivots. Plus it's only like eight bucks Canadian. No idea as to the food safety, but I figure since you only need to use it sparingly on the pivot/washers inside the knife, it shouldn't be escaping onto the blade.
I’ve noticed the Daiwa reel oil on Amazon a few times and I’ve wondered if it would work. It sounds like it does. I might just grab some to try out. Thanks for the heads up and have a great Easter stay safe and have fun buddy.
SO far so good! I did read one Amazon review where someone claimed they looked up the MSDS sheet on it & that it was only thinned mineral oil, but I couldn't find said data sheet myself to confirm. I'll definitely consider the Superlube H3 oil if I have any issues though!
CSGraves So far just the regular Superlube has been working great and even though it doesn’t say specifically that version is food safe as long as it’s just on the pivot in an amount that works and not sloppily applies I still think there is no worries about cutting up an apple or most food applications. And even if a small amount is ingested I don’t think it would hurt.....that much. Lol.
Sounds like it would work, but I’m not sure how long it lasts and if it gets gummy when it gets old. If it stays viscous for every it might work, but it also depends on the knife and duty of the knife. If it’s a flipper fidget type or a food knife it might be better to use something else, but if it’s one of those never maintain beaters it seems like the Lucas would last a long time. I hope this helps. Take care.
@@TheBigCanucker All oils get gunky and gummy and gritty that's the reason why you don't lube a knife at all. The knife have been running dry for the longest is a Tbree Sisters Forge Beast. I've been running the beast draw for over 5 years now and it is absolutely positively the smoothest knife I own followed by my Small Sebenza 21 ( That runs dry as well). Yeah gun lube is snake oil. Well I shouldn't say a snake oil but it only makes a difference while you're playing with it as soon as you've done it the moment it goes in your pocket it diminishes immediately. If let's face it lubrication AKA oils and grease are designed to combat friction opening and closing a knife doesn't generate any measurable amount of heat AKA friction that warrants lubrication. If you are putting lubrication in a clean knife and since it's lubrication you automatically think oh wow it's smoother no different than the doctor giving a hypochondriac sugar pill. On all of my bearing knives to include flippers there is absolutely 0 lubrication and they're actually smoother than they were before I started running knobs dry.
@@shepleonard8695 thank you so much for the comment it’s definitely something to think about and try. I think I will try to find 2 identical k Ives to try it out with and report my findings. Would you suggest trying washer knives or bearing knives. Take care and have a good one.
@@TheBigCanucker I don't think it really matters but if you do the test what you do is you completely claim the knife whether it's a bronze phosphor washer knife or a bearing's knife. You clean the knife completely reassemble it put the same amount of torque on each knife the other knife you do the same thing you clean it and then you loop it up carry each knife for 90 days are more and then actually see the difference in the knives. 90% of everyone out there does not disassemble their knives to clean or lose them. I know guys with $1200 custom knobs that have no mechanical understanding or ability whatsoever and they've had these knives for years and have never cleaned them. I mean if we're honest with each other I've got knives slip joints that are over a 100 years old and they opened in clothes and functioned absolutely perfectly and these knobs have never been disassembled. They were lubricated because they had to be because of the blade steel they were made out of most are all high carbon steell blades. But the point I'm making is this whole obsession with people taking their knobs apart cleaning them lubricating them and then reassembling the knife only to have to do it in 30 days or less all over again just doesn't happen with the vast majority of knife owners. And believe me I used to be that guy until I realised it's all marketing. Around 2003 - 2005 or so is when I started noticing all of the new "super" gun lube coming out. And then just after that you started seeing all of this "miracle" knife lube coming out. Prior to that very few people could care less about what lube or if any lube They used on their knife. Yeah I was forced to know enough to see Alexa at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte at their automotive section where they were talking about lubrication and friction.. Most mechanical devices of course mostly the engine were discussed but the knife topic did get brought up in what the experts to include the professors they are talked about were the fact that there's no measurable amount of heat generated from a knife opening that would warrant lubrication. Bad tied in with the fact that the knife is going to be opened used and then closed so it's not a repetitive emotion at high rpm. They said basically that's what the bearings and/or washers are for, To provide a Ease of opening with less friction without the use of a lubricant. It was also talked about how different lubricants are going to break down due to environmental exposures and just overall exposure to air and debris, And how this breakdown and/or contamination causes even more damage had there not been any at all.
As far as I know it’s just called super lube. I know there are different types of super lube, there’s a grease an oRing lube and aerosol, but I always buy the Super Lube with PTFE in it which is Teflon. The Teflon is nice that if the oil is washed away there is still some lube left in place ie the PTFE. I hope this helps.
Nanolube is (too) expensive everywhere. As are all these 'miracle' oils. You make good suggestions about trying different products because there are myriad excellent lubes out there for less money. Knife pivots/bearings/washers are rarely exposed to high temperature/stress conditions, unless their owners are OCD flippers. Thanks for the informative review. Keep up the good work.
Have you ever tried just polishing all the mating faces? Bushings and where they touch the blade? You could do it pretty quickly with a Dremel and polishing wax.
Most of the time and if I have the time I quickly polish the phosphor bronze washers and try to smooth out the sides of the knife on a strop. I haven’t Dremel polished yet but I will give it a go one of theses days.
I rub the washers on lapping films so fine, they are just WOW! 3M films are $16-17 and will bring you to a mirror, not chrome shine. a dab of oil and they glide like jesus over water
bought some ptfe washers and fk metal or nylon! got a 12 pack for 6 bucks.. last me a lifetime and my shyt is better than yours.... lol no lubing, no bs.. just works. fk mirror polishing metals when shyt is this smooth! and i can replace for pennies
we are one I just took apart my tenacious it was so gummed up with tuffglide the washers were welded to the frame and I had to peel one off and bent it. A little hammer and it’s back together and way way smoother with Superlube. Take care buddy.
Me too I like using a tri flow lube that includes PTFE. I like the PTFE because even if some of the oil gets washed away the the Teflon remains to lube the pivot….Take care.
@@TheBigCanucker for sure, good ish prices I guess on the Nano. The stuff ain’t cheap.... Currently I’m awaiting a tube of Shank Shield in the mail. I don’t like the name but it looks like it could be a good knife pivot lube. Extant Labs makes it, looks like they mostly do firearms products but made this one too. It’s a purpose made knife pivot oil, sounds cool. Best part they don’t do tax or charge shipping to Canada. Wooooo!!! Annnd it was $10.99 US for the tube of it at 10 ml, nano oil is 8 ml for $25 Canadian at thunderbird.... lots of info, can you tell I’m pumped to try the new oil. Anywho thank you for the videos, I’m new to your channel since Jake tipped me on to you.
@@jjrossitee defiantly going to give this Shank Shield a try especially if it’s 10.99 Us landed in Canada that sound like a great deal if it works. Thanks stay safe my friend.
@@TheBigCanucker if it works indeed, I’m curious, the price is extra good with our dollar these days. When it shows up I’ll let you know how much this knife pivot oil improves my life, err umm I mean knife, yes knife. Not as though some new pocket knife oil would have the power to completely change my life..... to be continued
One main thing I always wonder with these types of tests is why I never see krytox oils on them, it realistically should be around the same quality if not better than nano oil since it is a industry gold standard in terms of machinery, not that or realistically matters for most people but it just makes me wonder why people don't seem to try it
From the bit of research I did it does seem like Krytox is a pretty good lube, but I must admit I had not heard of it before your post. I looked for some krytox oil, but couldn’t find any for sale easily and the Krytox Grease mostly used as a keyboard lube was $88 a small tube on Amazon. If I come across some decently priced easily accessible oil I will definitely get and give it a try. Take care and stay safe buddy.
@@TheBigCanucker you can buy bigger containers of krytox oils on grainger, malvix is a Canadian keyboard vendor that also stocks 106 oil, i would recommend malvix for a smaller amount to test
@@mangehd6262 I will see what I can do because I’m always looking for good knife lubricant especially stuff not built for knives. Thanks for the info I really appreciate it. Take care buddy.
