Originally Posted by
Creel
On the minus side moisture, steam, humidity all bad for carbon steel. Dude you couldn’t a gone for stainless?
On the plus side whenever you see some movie where dude has to hide from the bad people in the bathroom you can be all “I would totally mess that mofo up my powder room is packed!”
Some good posts on coating up the blade so I won’t rehash that valuable avenue much except to add that moisture isn’t the only enemy.
Make sure you have wiped off all your salty, oily, acidic, fingerprints and all trace of alcohol or solvents off the blade so that they don’t get to continue to eat at the blade under the coating of whatever lube.
Also be careful when using penetrating oils or other lubricants like gun oil, military grade of CLP® may actually dissolve carbon and lightly dull the cutting edge. Haven’t found much on whether the thick waxes and Vaseline gum up the fine edge but what is good for a samurai sword may not be the best for a razors edge eh?
Ok here is a riddle. Since you can’t air the blade cuz the air is moist then why not just coat it and wrap it up in saran wrap =no air at all?
No sock drawer?