What is your prefered method for storing knives you don't use and do you have some tips on maintaining them? Is it better to store linerlocks open and lockbacks folded as I've read somewhere? Do you apply a film of colorless wax on them?

What do you use to prevent corrosion? At first one thinks of oil but it's sticky, it stains the furniture and also eventually evaporates. Do you use silicone spray that you find in the vehicle section of department stores? I'm aware of Tuf-Cloth dry protectant from Sentry Solutions but it's not readily available here. And once you apply stuff like silicone, should you wash it before say, peeling a fruit with it?

How and when do you use Gun Blue? Is it mostly for carbon steel once they lost their coating?

Once you've cleaned and dried a folder like a Spyderco or a multitool (and removed particles with a can of compressed air for example), do you put some drips of oil on the pivot and where else on a lockback?

Thanks
Frankie