a sharpened or serrated choil / sharpening notch

[rogerxd45]

on my knives i like to have a small sharpening notch (which i believe is called a choil but Im not 100% sure if that is correct)
without the notch i have trouble sharpening it plus it also wears out my stones very fast by rounding the corners of them.

i use a plain edge knife and The problem is sometimes stuff can get hung up in the notch. Its not a huge problem now that ive gotten used to the notch being there but it is still something i would like to avoid happening.

the idea i had to help prevent this is to basically make the notch a single serration. If i can figure out a way to make the notch sharp then when something falls it, the sharp edge will cut it. this way i still have all the benefits of a sharpening notch while also preventing the downsides of one.

I just dont know how to go about sharpening it. I used a dremel to cut the notch originally going very slow and taking my time to prevent from heating the steel up to hot and messing with the temper/heat-treat. it took a while but i was able to do it without it getting even slightly warm.

I dont know if i should just use hand files or if i should use the dremel again.
I also dont know if i should sharpen both sides like a regular knife edge or if i should cut it like most serrations that have only one side sharpened with the other side flat.

i would love to hear what you all think about this idea and ANY advice about how i should go about doing this. I would prefer to pay someone more skilled in "knife-smithing" to do it but i have no idea how i would find someone who could do this for me

 

[HeavyHanded]

I have done this exact mod to several of my knives that have choils. I used a long diamond burr bit and ground it by hand. I did both sides but imagine one only would work better. I don't keep them razor sharp, just enough to prevent hanging up on loose materials. It works pretty well.

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

You can watch Youtube by Unit (ewerstruly on YT) on how to add the notch. Similar to what HeavyHanded recommended. I do that to all my EDC.

I use round diamond file, on both sides, at higher angle than sharpening angle.

 

[rogerxd45]

do you guys have pics of the knives you have done this to?

 

[WuGod]

I did this to a couple of work knives that see a lot of plastic wrap. Used to hang up in the sharpening choil, so I did this and it works beautifully! Thanks for the idea!