Pocket Knife Maintenance - How to Clean and Maintain Manual and Automatic Knives

I wrap the blade part in masking tape, protects you from getting cut and the bland from getting scratched.

Thank you Sir

Would you recommend break free CLP for a Damascus blade? (Spyderco D.P.S. 15)

Tell us about cleaning the scales.

Great instructional video MC! Thank you!

I use one of those magnetic bowls that mechanics use. You can work over them, and if screws drop, they go in the bowl and hold there.

I would recommend fitz. Just my opinion. I have used it about year. I live in wet country if it isint snowing it is raining.

Thanks

I am about to do my first service on my edc knife collection so is it best to use Loctite 222?

Alcoholic wipes are for alkys who will relapse with smell or alcohol. It smells like mint

There is a Rem Dri Lube spray which may be what you want over regular Rem Oil spray that you used.

Thank you for taking the time to make this. Really appreciate it. I've been binge watching your content lately and it's really helped improve my knowledge and inform some of my beginner knife purchases.

Thanks for teaching a newb how to clean a pocket knife

Hi Like your cleaning video's. Question, will CLP help with a "hazy" blade. I have some vintage knives that the blade has a haze on it and I buff, wash, and no mater what I do I still have a haze.. Ideas??

Is WD-40 a good substitute for a cleaninjg and/or preserving agent, instead of oil or CLP? Thx

Sweet instructional !!!!

Quick question do they actually have titanium hardware for EDC knives? The reason I ask is because titanium strips out a lot easier than steel.

The reason I know this is because we use them on occasion in my hobby FPV quad copters. They are hex head 3M nuts.

The thing is the hex heads weill strip out if you don’t have a good bite in the screw head. I was thinking , if they used torques heads, maybe they wouldn’t strip out as easily????

The magnets on the digital angle finder is also good for retrieving screws, bearings and other small metal items that do make it to the floor or carpeted areas.

I picked up the WIHA bits you recommended and I gotta say you were 1000% right, great bits. Thank you sir.

“lets clean up the blade on this here shaman, just go ahead and clean up the blade make it look like new!”

24 seconds later

“lets spray rem oil all of all over all of these knives, just go ahead and hose these bishes with gun oil*

lol just givin you ish MC.

We use CLP in the Army for cleaning carbon out our weapons, and use it for lubrication.
Clean Lubricate Protect

I can't wait to do this on my knives tight. I just sharpened them on my whetstone. For safety reasons, probably should have done things in reverse!

"alcoholic wipe" haha

Two things, Nano oil is amazing! Put a drop on each side of an otherwise sticky PM2’s pivot and now it’s like silk! Falls free and snaps open like a whip. And two- Break free CLP is great at cleaning blades. Leaves a nice sheen on the blade that looks great and keeps it protected when you’re storing your knife away too.

Is the nano oil useful on firearms too?

What about KPL? A lot of guys in my knife group recommend it. Btw, Greetings from KCK.

If you spend much time on gun pages, REM Oil gets no love… my experiences with it, it just doesn’t last, Guns still rust right through it… now CLP… awesome!

I will say.... on an old video.... cranking the pivot too hard on ceramic bearings can cause dents in the pivot causing a gritty feeling action so be careful

What's your take on Ballistol Multi-Purpose Tool Oil to clean knifes

Would advise against using locktike purple? Concerned I might use too much of the blue and then get the screws stuck lol.

Nice samurai…

Hi MC, can you or have you done a video on long term storage of your knifes, like in your collection. I know in mine I'll go through once a month or 2 months and apply oil to the Blade if I'm out of edci, could you tell us what you do to your collection, Thanks and keep up the great videos:))

Alcoholic wipes…. They might need to go to Alcoholics Anonymous! LOL

I like all my snacks with a lil CLP

Can we use food grade mineral oil for the final wipe.

Wipes for alcoholics?

Please make a video disassembling the Medford Praetorian.

Will CLP work for black blades?

Torque driver calibrated in inch pounds as well.

Several bits of the same size as well. Varying tolerances.

Great!!!

Just saying I love nano oil, it’s like franks red hot. I put that shit on everything! I use it for all my knives except otfs of course and it works miracles on guns and other tools

I now I’m a little late to the party but I just want to give some handy advice.
I blow out my knives but I use a cmos sensor cleaning bellow (you can also use an airbrush compressor) instead of a workshop (or household) compressor or canned air.
Workshop (or household) compressors and canned air blow so hard they can actually scratch the knife internals, not fully clean by creating air pockets and get water in the internals because of the cold attracting moisture .
A cmos sensor cleaning bellow is also much cheaper and often comes with a soft brush you can put on the air outlet.

CLP worked great, and all I had to do is get my gun cleaning supplies out; thanks for the tip!!

3in1 oil makes a great dry lube that is easier to come by than REM oil. I used to use it on things I was especially afraid of attracting gunk towards, and now even have used it on pivots and had good results in it not contributing to gunk build up. Only bad thing is that they should make a bottle with a finer tip. It's got the viscosity of water when first applied and can get everywhere. The "carrier" substance evaporates very quickly though and is easy to clean up. I don't know what's in it (not silicone) but it's almost like a graphite floating in an ultra quick evaporating solvent.

What are the other options, because clp is out.of stock ?

Should check out Gunny Glide. Scott Gunn is a great guy.

how about cleaning DLC blades? does the CLP work or is there other recommendation??

by the way, really like your vids

I have a lot of CLP, I do firearm maintenance on the side, it works very well with carbon build up and like you said also acts as a lube