buck cutlery underrated....

st8yd, Your right it is a 4" and I'll make that change. Calling it a Chef knife is common. I like the shape of your boning knife. I agree, a 6" boning knife fills a vacant slot. DM
 
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On the serrated bread knife offered in the kitchen set. How do you guys sharpen this knife? DM
 
I haven't had to sharpen mine yet.
Others I have sharpened I used a round diamond rod from DMT. I also have round diamond sharpeners for the Dremel tool made for chainsaw sharpening.
 
This is good. One can do it any of those ways. I do mine like st8yd. Buck sells a pen size diamond rod, which has a collett and the rod telescopes out. One end of the
round rod is tapered small to larger round with diamond grit. The other half of the rod is half round, flat on one side, ( straight walled).
This works great for touching up the divots on a serrated blade. Then after working each divot I take it to a stone and work the flat side
of the blade with edge leading strokes. Just a few light strokes maybe 3-4, no lift, just laying flat. Then I'll test the divots on push cutting paper.
When finished they should be able to pull this cutting off. A serrated blade is a very specialized blade. I have experimented, trying to think of
different task to use a serrated blade for and some of this was disappointing. But I did find it was good for cutting tough stemmed weeds, rope,
filleting fish, slicing bread and fruit and some meats. Not chicken, roast or brisket but it does have a place in cutlery. If you have discovered another use for this style blade. This is a close enough topic to write about it. Thanks, DM
 
I've never had to reprofile the scallops on serrated yet as they are typically pretty thin angled from the factory. good solution for those though. guess I may have to do that one day. never thought about it before.

I find the corner of the sharpmaker works to hit the microbevel or secondary bevel and then knock the burr off on the other side. that's how I do it. seems to work well.
 
jb, some sharpeners actually slightly round one long edge of their stone to use it for serrations. I have observed this on a stone. Be very
careful on how much you round it as a small narrow one can work on a wider scallop by slightly moving it as you stroke. But a wide rounded
corner cannot be used on a narrow scallop. DM
 
My wife brought home a bag of large oranges and wanted to slice these up for a fruit salad and shacks. These oranges are 4" thick, I used
the 6" boning knife of the Empress Trio model 200. This size kitchen knife can pull off the halving of these in one stroke. A good size knife
for this work. Try this with a 110 size blade and it will require 2 pulls. Size matters. Just our kitchen use this week. It's getting near
pumpkin carving time... Perhaps you guys will think about it so I'm not the only one to display. DM
 
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David Martin said:
This is good. One can do it any of those ways. I do mine like st8yd. Buck sells a pen size diamond rod, which has a collett and the rod telescopes out. One end of the
round rod is tapered small to larger round with diamond grit. The other half of the rod is half round, flat on one side, ( straight walled).
This works great for touching up the divots on a serrated blade. Then after working each divot I take it to a stone and work the flat side
of the blade with edge leading strokes. Just a few light strokes maybe 3-4, no lift, just laying flat. Then I'll test the divots on push cutting paper.
When finished they should be able to pull this cutting off. A serrated blade is a very specialized blade. I have experimented, trying to think of
different task to use a serrated blade for and some of this was disappointing. But I did find it was good for cutting tough stemmed weeds, rope,
filleting fish, slicing bread and fruit and some meats. Not chicken, roast or brisket but it does have a place in cutlery. If you have discovered another use for this style blade. This is a close enough topic to write about it. Thanks, DM
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Here is a pic of the sharpener.
 
Mak, that is it. I have the blue one, on the pocket clip it says Smith's. Thank you for the photo. DM
 
The tool that Mak shows can take you a long ways out in the the deer woods as well. They are cheap and I recommend getting 2 for around
the house and 2 for outdoors. DM
 
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