serration sharpening discovery

[om diggity]

I'm sure this isn't an original idea, but I thought I'd just share my experience. I have a Spyderco Pacific Salt SE that lost its original edge and the Sharpmaker wasn't quite letting me get it back. So I wrapped 2000-grit sandpaper around a triangular piece of wood (was originally an Arkansas tri-hone until I pulled the stones off of it) and ran each serration down the sandpaper several times, then lightly ran it down the side.

Then I applied stropping compound to the corners of the wood and stropped each individual serration many times. Lost count of how much "stropping" I did, but in the end I ended up with a very shiny and extraordinarily sharp serrated knife.

Cheers!

 

[om diggity]

Oh, and I might add that one of the nice things about this is that the corners of the wood, sharp at first, "squish" down to conform to the size of the small serrations and fit inside nicely so you get a even polish.

 

[9blades]

Interesting.....very interesting....thanks for the tip I'll have to try that!

 

[hostileuniverse]

Very cool! I love sharpening serrations, thanks for the tip!

 

[Magnaminous_G]

Nice improvisation. :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[richard thurman]

they make sharpners just for the serrations on your knife. smith and wesson makes one that I know of. I belive 600 grit diamond. I just wanted to let you know.

 

[HoosierQ]

I have a bamboo chopstick and a bamboo skewer with green compound in/on them. I use the sharpmaker triangle stones like slips and refine the edge and then go to the bamboos. That is working well for me. For heavy work I have DMT course and fine diamond sharpeners...4" long things like little pointy sharpening steels shaped in a very long cone shape.