Scroll down to the Kuromaku section, last sentence. Anyone tried this? I don’t think that I would because oil is messy.

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Recently I chatted with a non-honing fellow out in the country and he wanted a suggestion for his knives. When I looked at what he had, one was an oil-soaked King 800 and he’d used it for years that way and it seemed to be doing fine.