Oil

[Klaver]

Hey There,

 

I was looking at the Aoi Art webshop and at the treatment page I found this:

 

Special notes

1. Generally, Chyoji oil has been used to treat Japanese swords. This is a sticky vegetable oil traditionally used in cleaning swords. It promotes ozidization of the blade that will result in rust in the future. In our opinion, and based on our experience. We not advise you to use chyoji oil. We suggest that you use high-quality machine oil on your sword. This is the same type used when maintaining guns or sewing machines, and it is the only oil that we use with our swords at Aoi Art.

 

I am a vendor in high-end chinese Japanese styled swords and to be honest sometimes I use the hanwei oil spray, which basicly is a CLP oil to clean and protect the katana's I have in stock. In my little workshop I always use Choji Oil and I never had a problem with both. Before shipment I check the katana's personally, and at those moments I use Choji Oil mostly, when I want to see the blade clearly. Just keeping them in Oil is doing fine in my opinion. The nihonto's I have in my personal collection I always use Choji Oil, which gives me a good feeling from a tradionional point of view. I was just wondering what you all use for your Nihonto's.

[Brian]

Choji (clove) oil isn't actually clove oil. It is a light mineral oil or camelia oil with a few drops of clove oil for scent. It won't damage blades unless you use pure clove oil, which you should never do.

This subject has been covered 100 times though.

Try these posts:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14814

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7279

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3605

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2225

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=482

And the FAQ above the forum.

 

Brian

[Klaver]

Brian,

 

Yep you are right, discussed a lot, I am sorry,

 

Anyway, a new way of working for me.

 

"I use alcohol or acetone to remove dried oil. It evaporates and leaves no residue. It doesn't scratch the blade.

I use a microfiber cloth to wipe the alcohol/acetone/dried oil. The fibers create a suction that lifts residue off the blade without scratching.

I use a water displacing oil like Sheath. Newly polished blades are wiped wiped with the microfiber cloth once a week for a period of 3 months or so and reoiled.

I use a cotton/flannel patch about 2 inches square to apply the oil.".

 

I already was aware Choji Oil is a mineral oil , but I found it kinda strange AOI shop does not recommend the mineral (choji) oil but a CLP basicly.