Serrated Bread Knife

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I have a Chicago Cutlery US made serrated breadknife I've used for about 15 years. Naturally it no longer cuts bread the way it used to.
Half the people I know tell me that a serrated bread knife isn't worth trying to sharpen (or get sharpened) and I should just replace it. The other
half of people tell me that's a myth and serrated knives can be sharpened. Which should I believe? Tanks.
 
They can be sharpened with proper equipment. Go over to the exchange and scroll down to the custom shop: services offered area and contact one of the sharpening guys and they can fix you up.
 
Serrated knives are easy to sharpen. Merely get a round diamond tool and carefully grind each divot. A larger round is needed for larger divots. But it's straight forward. They are worth sharpening and maintaining. DM
 
Serrated knives can absolutely be sharpened, although the ease of sharpening them varies by the dhape of the serrations. I have a JA Henckels 8" bread knife with serrations, and I use spyderco triangle rods to touch it up every once in a while. This knife has pretty wide serrations, so it is easy to get in there. Blades with narrower serrations can be harder to sharpen.
Some manufacturers use serrations to hide their bad steel and geometry. These sorts of knives are probably not with trying to sharpen.

Chris
 
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I own a mobile sharpening service and see some pretty bad stuff.
There are many ways to sharpen a serrated knife. As mentioned a diamond rod works well. Sand paper on a dowel rod, some use the edge of the belt on a belt grinder.
I use diamond wheels on modified variable speed bench grinders.
You can also do the same with the pink wheels that are used for chainsaw chains. If you have the proper thickness they are easily shaped to fit the serrations.
 
Thanks to everyone. I picked up a diamond serrated knife sharpener, basically a tapered round file. The package directions show to face it into the blade and rotate while moving forward. Then saw a youtube video using a round file and using it away from the blade. Then saw another video of a person using a spyderco sharpmaker and all he did was use the triangular rod and run the blade down like any plain edge so the triangular tip would run inside the serration grooves. Anyway, went and tested sharpening the serrated portion of my Blur with good results as it now slices paper on the serrated part. I will next try the serrated bread knife. Again thanks to all.
 
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