Thank you for your response Satsujinken
Logical and perfectly understandable.
I personally prefer oils that smell of sandalwood, but I do not use the keris oils sold in Jawa as these are not at all friendly to anything, I mix my own oil using synthetic sandalwood, natural kenanga and medicinal paraffin. I have no idea of the Ph of this oil, but I've been using it for a very long time with no adverse effects.
If preservation of the blade is the primary consideration, modern gun oils give the best protection, and it is a basic principle of metals conservation that ferric materials should not be stored resting on or against cellulose materials. Wood is cellulose. Blades are best preserved when kept in out of contact with wood, cloth and other similar materials.
In respect of the blade, I would prefer not to comment.
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