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skidmark72

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I have a bunch of knives with serrated blades, but they are too hard to sharpen. How do you do it. And really what is the point of a serrated edge any benefit. Thanks
 
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They have more cutting edge in a given blade length, work great on boat lines and fibrous material as well as initiating a cut in hard plastics. They will keep cutting when a plain edge will be dulled. And they give something for newbies to post about....
Try doing a search on the topic there are plenty of threads on the topic.
I have lived on boats since 1999 and they excel for many tasks. They can even make clean cuts.
there are plenty of pocket sharpening conical rods that work on serrations.
 
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I never liked sharpening them either I prefer to get plain edge blades so I don't know much but I do see they have little sharpening tools that are supposed to work good for it but then again I don't use them there should be more posts on the topic soon enough though so someone with better experience than I will give you some good info.
 
First of all, consider it jimping. Makes it more tolerable to the serration-haters. :)

Second, I personally would send them back to the company for factory sharpening. Benchmade does it, and I think other companies do it free or for a nominal charge. That way it is done correctly, by the people who sharpened it in the first place. Just another option.
 
I have a few se knives. I carry a cally jr se in my lr pocket everyday.

I use the corners of my Sharpmaker to keep them sharp. It's easy for me to sharpen them with the SM. I don't know why so many guys say se's

are hard to sharpen.:confused:
 
they make a diamond sharpner made just for those serrated knife blades. I belive smith and wesson make one. if you live at a farm or on a boat where you are cutting a rope they are it. I use to be a electricain and they work against me so I would not buy one for myself.
 
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I notice that not a lot of people here like combo edges.

I think the CE knives are much more practical than the plain edge knives. They both have their purpose, but if I were only carrying 1, it would be a combo edge. I find myself cutting rope and webbing which the serrated blades excel at. I use a plain edge to cut apples :)

Again, they both have their own applications which they excel at.

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Whomever said to "Send back to manufacturer" is on target. Most manufacturers will sharpen for free - You pay postage there, they pay postage back. It's win win. I use a little conical diamond sharpener to sharpen my serrated bladed.
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
First of all, consider it jimping. Makes it more tolerable to the serration-haters. :)

Second, I personally would send them back to the company for factory sharpening. Benchmade does it, and I think other companies do it free or for a nominal charge. That way it is done correctly, by the people who sharpened it in the first place. Just another option.
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Lifesharp does not include serrations. The easiest way to sharpen serrations is with an edge pro per the instruction that come with it.
 
Unless your knife has a super soft blade or are thinly slicing old dirty carpet or concrete slabs, serrated edges seem to stay sharp a long time. The sharpmaker works really well on serrations.
 
I use a sharpmaker for my Serrated knife(Endura) it works great and is pretty easy,if you touch up regularly it makes it a lot easier.

I used to dislike the SE then I watched a guy at work using his SE (budget brand knife btw) and was really amazed at how well it held up,made a believer out of me.
 
I quite like serrations for a few things. There are some materials, like heavy duty plastic packing straps, that can be annoying to get through even with a freshly sharpened plain edge and serrations glide through without an issue.
 
One way to deal with serrations.


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richard thurman said:
they make a diamond sharpner made just for those serrated knife blades. I belive smith and wesson make one. if you live at a farm or on a boat where you are cutting a rope they are it. I use to be a electricain and they work against me so I would not buy one for myself.
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Yeah I did the same thing as big mike to one of my Cold Steel knives after I felt the serrations were all but gone.
 
Spyderco has good serrations that sharpen easy, I can see how you could sharpen Cold steel serrations...
 
I have a Spyderco Endura 4 full Spyder Edge on me in my house shorts now. Its pretty fun, you can make loud sweeping cuts trough stuff like bags of Chicken Fried Rice or whatever. It will push cut too and there is a short plain edge tip.

I have been using the Spyderco Sharpmaker to sharpen mine as well (RevDevil said they work good too). They have triangle shaped rods where you can set them with the spine of the triangle out, so you just slowly pull the serrations across their ridges. It's pretty much chisel ground on the back side of the blade, so I use the flat part of the sharpener there.

Spyderco sharpens their serrations too, you just have to pay shipping. Good luck brother!
 
skidmark72 said:
I have a bunch of knives with serrated blades, but they are too hard to sharpen. How do you do it. And really what is the point of a serrated edge any benefit. Thanks
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My EDC is partially serrated and I do find it useful at times. As far as collecting them, most people prefer non-serrated so that helps me make my decision.

Also, I don't think they make a Random Leek, Tanto without the serrations.
 
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