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Any of you use desiccants to protect your collections? If so, where do you live, (how humid?) and in what what do you keep your knives? (I make drawer cases for all manner of collectors -and lots of knife collectors- and wonder if I ought to help them worry about corrosion.)
Bill

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Comment by Bill Harvey on September 15, 2010 at 9:06
Thanks Gary. You are right. Good stuff micro-crystalline wax. If Bill Powell has a web site, I'd be tickled to link to him. But in the mean time, I got curious about the state of such chemicals and did a little research. I plan to post my thoughts in the main blog.
Bill
Comment by Gary Kennedy on September 15, 2010 at 8:09
Try Renaissance wax it works . I pick mine up when I attend a knife show . Bill Powell sells it and he is a member of IKC
Comment by Bill Harvey on September 3, 2010 at 12:06
You are right Don -but I have actually built air-tight display cases -but for photos. I suspect a light coating of mineral oil might work better on a knife then daguerreotype. (And I have to compliment your web-master. Your spell check took me right to 'daguerreotype" with dang little help from the mangled word I originally typed.)

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