I recently purchased a CRKT M16-13Z for EDC. How the heck do you keep these things from rusting, I carried it 2 days and the metal under the holes on the handle started rusting. What gives I have carbon steel that don't rust as easy as this crap. I used a qtip with CLP and after a weeks they started getting brown spots again. What is the deal I just wanted a nice EDC with a flipper but got a rust bucket with a flipper.
Crkt Rant
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FirstFreedom
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Yep, my M16-z12 does the same thing - otherwise it's a pretty good knife. I would suggest either a Kershaw Leek, or a CRKT Desert Cruiser as good and good looking flipper knives that won't break the bank, and won't rust. The Desert Cruiser has a titanium nitride blade coating, and uses the same lawks locking system as the M16s:
http://www.crkt.com/dsrtcrsr.html
The Leek is a flipper, and an AO, so it's very fast. It can be had in many configs, with all-steel, steel-liner with alum handles, even one with a S30V blade and G10 handles!
http://newgraham.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=72
http://www.crkt.com/dsrtcrsr.html
The Leek is a flipper, and an AO, so it's very fast. It can be had in many configs, with all-steel, steel-liner with alum handles, even one with a S30V blade and G10 handles!
http://newgraham.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=72
There is no way to get around it. Cheap stainless steel rusts. If you want something good you have to pay for it. I tried all the kershaws and CRKT and so on. I couldn't keep an edge, poor quality, rust. Save a little extra money and buy something good. I would rather buy one good knife than have to fork out $40-50 every couple months to buy a new cheap knife. Minnimum would be benchmade and go up from there, Emerson, microtech, chris Reeves, strider, and many others.