How do I serrate a blade?

[Hazardous]

This is my first post on this forum, so please bear with me if this topic has been beat to death. I want to how to go about serrating the rear portion of the edge of a plain edge knife to produce a combo edge. I have several knives with both plain and combo edges, but a few plain edge knives in my stable would serve me better if they had a partially serrated blade. Does anyone offer this service, or would I have to do it myself? If I am on my own, does anyone have any suggestions about how to go about doing this, like what tools to use, etc?

 

[george tichbourne]

You have two options depending on the hardness of the blade.

If the blade is relativly soft take a small file and file the serrations in.

If the blade is too hard to file use a dremmel tool with a diamond or carborundum stone and grind the serrations in.



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george
www.tichbourneknives.com
sales@tichbourneknives.com

 

[Brian C]

There is also a grinder wheel that is specifically designed to add serrations. You may want to search the year-1 general discussion archive for a post on this subject by Mike Turber. As I remember, he was considering offering serrations as a service.

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Cheers,

--+Brian+--

I may be goin' to hell in a bucket, Babe, but at least I'm enjoyin' the ride.

 

[A T Barr]

If you use *any* type of power tool to do this, go slow and keep the steel cool. Otherwise, you will end up with a soft piece of steel, that is shaped like a knife.

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A.T.
http://www.customknives.com

 

[Scooter]

Where does one find these serrating stones/wheels?

Do you have to make your own?

Thanks

 

[cwknifeman]

The right tool for the right job. Either use a small Chain Saw file or jewelers files, the other method that I would use as it is what I use is a High speed handpiece much like a dental drill with diamond bits, ( it works great).

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Curtis Wilson -
Wilson's Custom Knives, Engraving, and Scrimshaw

 

[Hazardous]

Man, you folks are great! My first ever post on this forum and I get five extremely helpful replies to my question. I suppose it's time to go buy some quality files and get to work. Thanks to all.

 

[Shawn R Sullivan]

Haz,
Mike Tuber can put serrtions on any knife. Go to the general knife forum and post a message, use his name in the subject line. Then explain what you want done. Hope this helps.

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Shawn R Sullivan
~San Diego, Ca~