Issues cutting rope

Serrations. All the guys who tell you otherwise just fetishize plain edges.

As mentioned, serrated knives will continue to rip even when dull, plus you have a longer edge for a given blade length. When a plain edge is dull, it does essentially nothing outside of being batonned.
 
Sam Wilson said:
Serrations. All the guys who tell you otherwise just fetishize plain edges.

As mentioned, serrated knives will continue to rip even when dull, plus you have a longer edge for a given blade length. When a plain edge is dull, it does essentially nothing outside of being batonned.
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I think it is not so much fetishization of plainedge, for the average Joe, but rather bad experiences with other serrations that are terrible and never did cut in the first place, but just tore. That was my experience before getting a GOOD serrated knife.

I have a kitchen knife, a "Butcher knife" that is half-good serrations, half Cold-Steel like serrations that go "CLIK CLIK CLIK" when you try to sharpen 'em.
 
Hashishiin Hashishiin I'm not saying I disagree with you, but my experience in having this conversation many many times over the years is that most guys that don't like serrations (usually because they have trouble sharpening them, or they really love the look of a nice plain edge knife) will say something to the effect of "Well, my sharp plain edge blade will cut rope just fine, I don't need any serrations."

They fail to see the context of the situation, just like those guys that always say the best survival knife is the one you have with you, when someone asks which survival knife would you choose. They're not really getting the point.

A sharp plain edge blade doesn't stay sharp very long when cutting abrasive rope. Just like the survival knife question, the question wasn't which survival knife are you going to have with you when you need it, it's "If you had the opportunity to choose a knife and that be the survival knife you carry, which one would it be?"

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Sam👍


Hashishiin said:
I think it is not so much fetishization of plainedge, for the average Joe, but rather bad experiences with other serrations that are terrible and never did cut in the first place, but just tore. That was my experience before getting a GOOD serrated knife.

I have a kitchen knife, a "Butcher knife" that is half-good serrations, half Cold-Steel like serrations that go "CLIK CLIK CLIK" when you try to sharpen 'em.
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Well, my sharp plain edge blade will cut rope just fine. I don't need any serrations.
Also, the best survival knife is the one you have with you.
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Sam Wilson Sam Wilson Yes, I have seen such similar things said about! I have found it actually pretty easy to sharpen serrations (Spyderco Sharpmaker mind you - no rebeveling to 11DPS or whatever crazy stuff - still overwhelmed with a KME, haha. But, yeah... light tool, easy to carry, sharpen up everything with it.

Always have a few good knives on me, SAK, Spyderco, and I have a bunch of big 1095 in various places.
 
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