Anyone else dislike the serrations on the Wave?

Caffeinepirate

Caffeinepirate

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The Wave is my favorite multi-tool, so I don't mean to slam the tool in general. However, I have found that the serrations are so shallow that they are barely effective. I can cut rope and card board just as good (and sometimes even better!) with the plain edge blade than the serrated edge.
 
When I rocked a Wave ( up until about 2004 ) , the most used tool was the Serrated blade , so i gotta say I like them . Offered the choice , I prefer the serration style found on Vic's.

Chris
 
Nope, the Leatherman serrations are among my favorite. They are more course then Victorinox serrations and less course then Spyderco's: just perfect. The Victorinox ones are excellent as well, but, since the steel is pretty soft you can mess them up easily in my experience.
 
My Charge TTi has the same serrated blade, and I like it a lot for cutting fibrous and some hard materials. Although I use the PE for most things, the SE works well enough for general utility that I consider it a good backup if the PE is damaged, dulled out, or in some other way can't be used. One good thing is that the Leatherman serrations are on the right side of the blade, much easier (for right handers) to control while cutting through stuff, a matter of muscle mechanics, I believe.

My opinion is based on limited experience with serrated blades, consisting of Leatherman, a Vic OHT (also righty) and Spyderco Endura (lefty). All three felt different in use. Basically, I could easily live with any, but overall I preferred Leatherman. Once I emailed Spyderco a question as to why they serrated the "wrong" side. Sal Glesser personally responded that his customers were mainly concerned with rapid separation of materials, and that if a downward cut were to stray from its intended course, serrations on the left would cause the blade to curve away from its user, a safety issue. Nice of him to reply, I thought. I love his knives.
 
Leatherman serration pattern I find to be pretty useful. Generally, the deeper and narrower the serrations, the less useful they are in practice.
 
I guess I stand alone on this issue. For me, if I'm going to have a straight and serrated blade on the same tool, I want them to be as different as possible so I get to exploit the strengths of each. I have an old Aus-8 Spyderco Rescue with incredibly aggressive serrations that cut through cardboard like butter. I would have liked a blade like that because it acts so much different than a PE. To me, the Wave serrations act almost like a PE, but they aren't as versatile as a PE. But to each his own.
 
i find the serrated blade on my (11 year old) Wave to fulfill all of my serrated blade needs and desires.

it cleaves through rope and nylon webbing like butter.
 
I like them just fine and find it easy to use them for rope and cardboard. The only issue I run into is sharpening however its not that difficult.
 
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