how many people like searations on their blade?

Serrations have their place in my world of things that need cutting (strangely excluding all food prep - serrated knifes are banned in my kitchen). If I know I am going to be cutting a lot of rope, vegetation or plastic (or similar synthetics) and it doesn't need to be pretty, I'll always take a fully serrated blade. Underwater work - only serrated works for me and a dedicated Atlantic Salt lives in my dive box for this.

Having said all of that, I generally prefer plain edge for my day-to-day EDC tasks and my "full" size EDC is generally plain edge but a serrated Ladybug lives on my key ring in case I need some teeth.

Combo edges are, in my opinion, a compromise that doesn't work. I have some but very seldom carry them. I prefer to have my "full" size plain edge and a serrated Ladybug with me rather than a blade that isn't sure what it is. You cannot be half pregnant (or half serrated).
 
Once I figured out that I can do just about anything with a SE blade that I can with a plain edge, I heard angels singing and abandoned my avoidance of serrated edges. I challenge some of you agnostics to try peeling an apple, killing a box, and opening a clamshell with a serrated edge, because they are awesome. Plus you get the bennies traditionally associated with the serrated edge, like cutting fiberous matter and long (useable) edge retention. I still love a sick plain edge, though. They are all good in my book.

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They have their uses I suppose, but as a safe-queen collector, I find that they ruin the profile of a knife.
 
whateatsrabbits said:
I probably would like serrations, but how the heck do you sharpen them? If your knife has trouble cutting zipties and pallet straps, then you needs to sharpen that bieoch.
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Sharpening serrations is easy. Paper wheels, diamond sharpeners, bench stone, ceramic hones etc... Just takes practice

My full serrated endura 4; one of my favourite knives and a great user. This is an older pic; she's got a lot more wear on her now (same with the S90V millie & bedlam, in fact, they're all getting kind of beat up looking!)
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I think the main benefit of well designed serrations is that that allow for more cutting edge packed into a blade as compared to a similar length plain edge blade. Spyderco and Kershaw/ZT make some of the best IMO. Cold Steel's mini serrations just snap off with use in my experience.
 
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powernoodle said:
Once I figured out that I can do just about anything with a SE blade that I can with a plain edge, I heard angels singing and abandoned my avoidance of serrated edges. I challenge some of you agnostics to try peeling an apple, killing a box, and opening a clamshell with a serrated edge, because they are awesome. Plus you get the bennies traditionally associated with the serrated edge, like cutting fiberous matter and long (useable) edge retention. I still love a sick plain edge, though. They are all good in my book.
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I've avoided serrated blades and do fine with PE edges.

My wifes favorite kitchen utility was a cheap 5" serrated no-name knife that looked more like a steak knife. The wood was splitting and it had a run-in with the garbage disposal at one time so I decided to replace it for her.

I tacked a Cold Steel 6" Utility Kitchen knife to an order just to try it out.

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As much as I hate to admit it, I find myself using it in the kitchen more than my favorite, a Henkles 5.5" Boning knife that cost me 8X as much.

Cold Steel AND serrated... I should be ostracized... :o
 
powernoodle said:
Once I figured out that I can do just about anything with a SE blade that I can with a plain edge, I heard angels singing and abandoned my avoidance of serrated edges. I challenge some of you agnostics to try peeling an apple, killing a box, and opening a clamshell with a serrated edge, because they are awesome. Plus you get the bennies traditionally associated with the serrated edge, like cutting fiberous matter and long (useable) edge retention. I still love a sick plain edge, though. They are all good in my book.

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I am here too. I am coming back on board. I will never go exclusive, or serrated edge prominent, but I am coming back. I think back to a jam I got in once. I had a big old 21 CRT monitor in the back of a UHAUL. I was standing in line at a very hectic tox drop that was open for about an hour...people were honking...you'd think it was a bank run! Any way, the cable had gotten itself stuck in the tiedown rail and was fixe there but good. I pulled out my then EDC, a combo edge and it cut through that cable like it was butter. No, I wasn't saving anybody from a burning vehicle but it was good to be able to cut right through that. I have not conducted tests on my own but I am pretty confident that the cable would not have cut so easily with a plain edge.

So I am considering a move toward having that on-hand opening clip knife be combo or serrated. We'll see. I do love how a nice plain edge cuts everything else and I love the art of sharpening them.
 
I started off loving knives with serrations. Then when I started doing my own sharpening, I just started to avoid them all together.
 
dartheo said:
I started off loving knives with serrations. Then when I started doing my own sharpening, I just started to avoid them all together.
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I like sharpening serrations; the trick is to not let them get too dull or routine edge maintenance turns into full blown resharpening... :D;)
 
powernoodle said:
Once I figured out that I can do just about anything with a SE blade that I can with a plain edge, I heard angels singing and abandoned my avoidance of serrated edges. I challenge some of you agnostics to try peeling an apple, killing a box, and opening a clamshell with a serrated edge, because they are awesome. Plus you get the bennies traditionally associated with the serrated edge, like cutting fiberous matter and long (useable) edge retention. I still love a sick plain edge, though. They are all good in my book.
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I have shopped around trying to decide which Spyderco I would get in full serrations. I think it might be a Salt series knife, but the combo edge is a poor compromise imo, and I think it appeals to the masses, but not as much to knife nuts like us. Also, before I converted my combo edge to a plain edge on my Tenacious, I had a couple teeth damaged, and that turned me off as well. Not sure if it was the 8Cr13MoV, the serration design, or me doing something stupid, but I did not like the damaged teeth, and did not know how to fix it. If I roll a plain edge, I can fix it, a broken point on a tooth, I guess I'm SOL.
 
I only like them if the full length of the edge is serrated. Then that knife is used only when serrations are needed, otherwise I don't like them.
 
When in the course of daily use, semi or fully serrated will always cut regardless of steel quality etc. Serrations are good enough for sharks, good enough for me.
 
Czechmate said:
I like sharpening serrations; the trick is to not let them get too dull or routine edge maintenance turns into full blown resharpening... :D;)
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Eventually I'll actually do some research on how to sharpen serrations... lol
 
The only kind of serrations i like are the ones found on a Kris

If i want to cut rope or bread or whatever i would just use a larger damn stone
 
I have 2 knives with serrations. The second knife i bought as a kid & a BUCK Silver Creek Bait Knife. Yeah---the serrations on my 2 knives are NOT jimping as some have said. They are uber sharp & have cut 3 people so far, that had to test them with their thumb. The Buck SCBK is the first knife with serrations done right for a right hander, IMHO. Check it out.
 
On my collectibles, I have both and like them.

On my EDC I go with PE on all of them.
 
I used to hate Serrations and tantos. In fact I've never seen a full serrated tanto before, but there is a place for one? I ended up buying a full serrated Endura 4, and I started keeping it in the shorts that I wear around the house. It's a pretty fun knife, its a lot like a "Good Cook" 6 inch serrated kitchen knife I used to have (I even know who stole it) and love.

The hardest thing that I had to overcome was that I turned down a FFG Endura 4 to make a place for a serrated one. I'd still trade for the FFG though. I'd just get that Cold Steel kitchen knife to fill the missing serrated place.
 
General edc stuff I prefer pe, when I goto the woods for the day I like my endura 4 SE. I've never really liked combo edges, it always seemed to me that I needed the pe portion closer to the handle. I guess for the work I was doing it would've worked out better.
 
I don't care for them, and have sold the few I had. I do have a couple of cheap serrated kitchen knives though.
 
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