Thanks for the tips on rust prevention everyone. Over the years one of the best things I have found to use is simple Vasaline Petroleum Jelly....it is none toxic so if you are keeping your knives out of their sheaths in a drawer ready to use....and want to go hunting or camping...the jelly acts like a grease and blocks the "Air" from the steel so it cannot oxidise and does not need cleaning off before putting the knife in its sheath and using it. Food prep or larder/meat work is fine. We had some guys using gun oil on their knives in Borneo...not good if you don't want gut rott...the Marine Tex Tuff Cloth is very good though...but they don't last forever and dry out and you are never sure "when" it has lost it's "zing".

The Vasaline Jelly is a great bit of kit for your first aid pack...use it mainly for "skin chaffing" which you get on the very long marches....and cracked lips from windchill....and it is great for rubbing on your eyelids to prevent and sooth midgy or mosquito bites....some guys use a full face veil but it obscures your vision for shooting when it gets covered with dead mossy's/midges from the repellant. I use one which has slits cut for your eyes. The jelly stops them biting you on the lids and does not cause eye sting ...a real blessing. A great bit of kit.

My Golok was issued first time in 1966..I got it back in 1981/82...more rust marks were on it than possible to imagine...so I just clean the surface rust off and let it stay that way.You cannot get rid of them....they are too deep. It always reminds me to look after my knives. I will post some pics of it soon...it took a great Convex edge.

I like the Jackhammer more and more as I look at the picture....it sure has "prescence" in it's design....those ridges look like blood grooves designed to "stop the suck" as opposed to "embracing it"....maybe that's what Jerry had in mind when he did the Satin version with straight sides and the logo? A reminder of one of the problems you might have by going for traditional asthetics? I love it....real graveyard humour. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />