how do you guys sharpen coldsteel serrations?

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I sharpened up a coldsteel urban pal tonight and found it nearly impossible to sharpen the small teeth between the larger scallops. How do you guys go about doing so? the large scallops I had sharpened with a small screwdriver and sandpaper and finished it off on my slotted paper wheel. I was tempted to just grind the thing to a plain edge blade but its not my knife so I pretty much just left the small ones which look like rodent teeth/claws.
 
I use the spyderco sharpmaker to sharpen serrated blades. Use the corners of the fine stones.
 
Hmm cold steel serration pretty much suck for me. I use a tapered round file and sharpen each one.
 
i use a sharpmaker too for the urban pal, the only serrated knife from cold steel i own.
great little knife, too bad is illegal to carry in most places...
 
I though of using my sharpmaker corners and the crevices between the small teeth are much much too small for that.
 
singularity35 said:
Hmm cold steel serration pretty much suck for me. I use a tapered round file and sharpen each one.
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the serrations im talking about are between these ones you can use a tapered round file. they look like small needles, about 2 with 3 very small spaces between each which are the width of each of the larger scallops.
 
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I sharpen the back side on my edge pro and then lightly buff the front side with the corner of my paper wheel.
 
eccvets said:
the serrations im talking about are between these ones you can use a tapered round file. they look like small needles, about 2 with 3 very small spaces between each which are the width of each of the larger scallops.
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Yeh, I have one of those urban pals somewhere here. I've used the tapered round file that comes with the DMT aligner kit. It does get to them a bit but I agree that it doesn't really do a good job. That's why I don't really like CS's serrations. I wonder if you can use a folded piece of wet/dry to get into those though.
 
singularity35 said:
Yeh, I have one of those urban pals somewhere here. I've used the tapered round file that comes with the DMT aligner kit. It does get to them a bit but I agree that it doesn't really do a good job. That's why I don't really like CS's serrations. I wonder if you can use a folded piece of wet/dry to get into those though.
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I actually did try that just now. didn't really seem to work that well and I pretty much gave up after about 30 mins seeing as I highly doubt anyone will notice. If it were my knife, I wouldn't stop till the damn thing would split hair but meh, I think they will only use the tip of it mostly to cut open boxes. The little spikes were also getting dull and I wish I could have made them pointy again but oh well. I'd rather just grind the damn thing to a plain edge as well as the other end to make it double sided and then just buy a new one for the guy. It would have saved me time and aggravation I think in the end.
 
eccvets said:
I actually did try that just now. didn't really seem to work that well and I pretty much gave up after about 30 mins seeing as I highly doubt anyone will notice. If it were my knife, I wouldn't stop till the damn thing would split hair but meh, I think they will only use the tip of it mostly to cut open boxes. The little spikes were also getting dull and I wish I could have made them pointy again but oh well. I'd rather just grind the damn thing to a plain edge as well as the other end to make it double sided and then just buy a new one for the guy. It would have saved me time and aggravation I think in the end.
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Agreed! That's why I don't carry the darn thing anymore since I don't like to carry a dull knife.
 
i load up the corner of my slotted wheel and buff the serrations one at a time until i get them all sharp. you can also use a popsickle stick with some sandpaper wrapped around it to work up a burr before going to the slotted wheel.
 
richard j said:
i load up the corner of my slotted wheel and buff the serrations one at a time until i get them all sharp. you can also use a popsickle stick with some sandpaper wrapped around it to work up a burr before going to the slotted wheel.
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I tried that for a bit but it really tears the crap out of the corners worst then sand paper. I guess im trying to save them for the bigger serrations.
 
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