Hello knife people, I (very much not a knife person) have been suckered in by dual_sport_dork’s posts and am finally biting the bullet and buying one of those knives. I know approximately nothing about knives except what weird knife Wednesday has taught me, which is mostly how to shit talk cursed knock-offs, so I’m hoping for some advice on how to stick the landing of my jump into this hobby.

I’m trying to buy HUAAO’s Bugout 535 ripoff, and this knife-buying-experience is off to a rocky start because the Amazon link on dual_sport_dork’s writeup tells me shipping isn’t available to my region. Maybe this is just seller-related, maybe these knives are illegal in Canada, I don’t know and to be real honest I don’t give a fuck. I found knivesprecisionedge.com, which claims to be a “trusted store” and “100% issue-free” - sketchy as fuck, honestly. Has anybody else used this site? How bad am I about to get scammed?

Assuming they’re at least somewhat legit and ship me this knife, and that it makes it into the country, is there anything I should know about owning a knife like this? Care tips, how not to use it, anything like that? The main thing it’ll be used for is as a camping knife, if that matters.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️MEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    You can wash with soap and water, sure. Bear in mind that this will probably remove any lubricant in the pivots in addition to any oils on the blade which are acting as corrosion inhibitors.

    440C steel, which is what that knife is made out of, is corrosion resistant all on its own but not magically so. You don’t have to go crazy with or about the re-oiling, but it’s not a bad idea. Mineral oil is generally food safe. Mineral oil itself will also remove a pretty decent variety of crud that may be stuck to your blade.

    I don’t usually use any of my folders for food prep so I clean them with naptha (!) and oil them with the same synthetic silicone oil I use on my airguns, 3D printer, etc., etc.