how are the cold steel Serrated edges?

[Angelus1781]

never owned up and realize its cold steel but wondering how long they hold up aganst cardboard and lots of it. Which model would you recommand for lots of opening and breaking down of boxes, slicing boxes, ect?

 

[Shadow213]

What I'd recommend isn't a Cold Steel, but rather a Spyderco.....the Calypso Jr.. Also, I'm not talking about a SpyderEdged Calypso, but one with PlainEdge.

The thin blade, and superb edge geometry, on the Jr. eats up cardboard like nobody's business. A few years back, after buying quite a few big appliances for the kitchen, I had ALOT of cardboard that needed cutting up for disposal and the Calypso Jr. sliced and diced all of it up into small pieces like a hot knife through butter.

BTW, IMO, if you want the best serrated edges, look at any Spyderco knives with the SpyderEdge.

 

[Will P.]

Serrations aren't too hot for cardboard.

CS serrations tend to be too thin and fragile.

 

[Revierler]

hard to resharpen with normal means.

 

[Lavan]

My thinking too. Spyderco serrations sharpen very easily and STAY sharp. Almost same as a straight edge on a Sharpmaker.

 

[nenofury]

CS would work on cardboard, but that's about it. They are all but impossible to resharpen and break easily. Definitely go with spyderco.

 

[frank k]

CS serrations work well on cardboard (they even make a cool zipping sound), but I would also go with the Spyderco serrations because the CS ones are hard to sharpen and tend to break off.

The best cardboard cutter I have found is the MeerKat with the serrated reverse S blade (unfortunately the MeerKats were recently discontinued, but you can get a similar blade on the Dodo).



- Frank

 

[Mongo-man]