Do I deserve to be reading this forum?

[Lavan]

I get a copy of "Blade" and I look at some of the knives that are all curvy and wiggly and apparently great because they are costly and all I see is "haysoos, that mutha would be a bear to sharpen."

Like that one in the new Tommy Jones/ Beneicio del Toro movie.

How would you EVER sharpen that notchy part of the blade?

Do those knives EVER get USED? I even have (but don't really care for) serrated edges. And then I read the warranty and the resharpening policy and see that many WON'T resharpen the serrated part.

What am I missing? I can put an edge on almost anything except a baseball, but man, those knives look designed to be hung on a wall. IF you can afford a wall after buying one of the $900 non-locking jackknives that I see in every issue. Whoops...sorry....900 UP.

.........Old smooth blade geezer

 

[sepcat]

I understand..

The problem is that knives are one of the oldest tools known to man and they really are a simple clean design and an extremely effective and timeless tool. The problem is that gearheads want a new revison or something new every 6 months and really what can you do to a knife to radically change things? Add curves serations and stuff.... I do realize that some serious metal improvements have been made but really, in many cases the companies are just filling a demand. "We want something new"... And that's what keeps Bill Gates in business.

 

[yog]

Curvy blades ? If it's anything more than a basic recurve, then I don't see the point, even though the recurve has a place, I think that place is limited.

As for serrations, you're probably talking the Benchmade warrenty, Spyderco have no such restriction, in fact they do a damn good job on serrations if you send it in for resharpening.
I'm a straight blade plain edged man myself, but I do recognise that serrations (like the Spyderco variety) can be damn good at some things like garden hoses.

For home sharpening I've not found a curvy blade that a Sharpmaker couldn't handle.

 

[Lavan]

That's true. However, I have trained my garden hose to sit and heel and have not had to cut it yet.