Opinion: top full serrated lightweight folders

cchu518

cchu518

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Any of you folks enjoy carrying fully serrated folders? Thoughts and opinions, pros vs cons?

I've never had a folder with full serrations yet and am thinking about it. What brands would you consider make the best serrations.

Right now I'm thinking of a Cara Cara rescue, delica and crkt apache medium size.
 
The Delica, Endura, Native, and Stretch were some of the best available for under the $100 mark, probably still are. If you want to go higher dollar amount, the Microtech Socom Delta/Elite has fully serrated blades and may come in a variety of nice super stainless steels.
The older and harder to find ones are the fully serrated Spyderco Military and Paramilitary.
 
The only fully serrated knives I ever carried were: Spyderco Delica, Endura, Police, & Pacific Salt and old (molded clip) Cold Steel Voyager.

They excel at cutting fibrous material but don't cut most other materials as cleanly as a sharp plain edge. Also, the teeth may be more susceptible to damage and they can also be a bit more difficult to sharpen.

Personally, if I were going fully serrated again, I would probably stick with Spyderco.
 
Spyderco Pacific Salt has been in my pocket just about every day for over a year. Fantastic knife.
 
Spyderco Salt Series is the king of serrations. H1 steel works better with serrations that it does as a plain edge. Knowing you don't have to worry about corrosion at all is pretty cool (I carry even swimming in the ocean). I have a Salt 1 which is roughly delica sized. The pacific salt is pretty much Endura sized. Both are very light for their size. There are other options as well if you want different sizes or blade shape.

In general, I carry a plain edge blade because it tends to cut cleaner. The serrated edges cut anything I've ever needed but it's just not as clean a cut. Serrated sure does go through rope and other fibrous material in a hurry. I think either will work for just about any task if you keep them sharp. It's just a matter of preference.
 
Well that's the thing, every year I try out a new sub $100 folder for beating on in the yard, camping and hikes to see how they fair for my personal uses in comparison to more expensive folders. So I'm trying for a new one this year after the Cara Cara 2.

As my uses aren't that crazy so far I continue to buy and trade across a wide price range but am finding that I really like the $80-$150 folders!

I need a new serrated yard knife though for cutting brush. I got a Japanese Pruning saw which is great but I can't stuff the thing in my pants pocket. Lol
 
cchu518 said:
I need a new serrated yard knife though for cutting brush. I got a Japanese Pruning saw which is great but I can't stuff the thing in my pants pocket.
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Spyderco Pacific Salt - 3.8" H1 full serrated cutting machine.

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I carry a fully serrated dragonfly in my back pocket. It's my go to box opener/utility knife. We got one of the round files for the KME sharpener so I can touch it up with that when I need to.

If I needed a bigger knife for your use, I wouldn't hesitate to go with another spyderco.
 
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