Serrations

vjb.knife said:
The most popular serration design is probably the Spyderco type and to maintain it to its original shape you have to have a tool that Spyderco no longer makes, which is pretty stupid. .....Spyderco used to make a set of ceramic sticks that had the exact contour of the Spyderco serration on one side of them and you can draw the serrated section straight down that side of the ceramic and they look better than new.
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So why doesn't Spyderco make them anymore? Seems a bit silly, being as they sell a whole lot of serrated edges, all in the same grind profile.
 
Sal posted about those a while back. They only made one run of them, and couldn't sell them for enough to cover the cost of making them.

The SharpMaker does just fine on serrations for me. The Duckfoot helps if they are really trashed.
 
That's odd. You would think that serrated blade owners would buy them up like gold. If I were partial to serrated blades, I would think they would be invaluable.
 
I don't know what they would retail for if they made another run of them. They might cost more than replacing the knife, which would tend to limit sales.
 
Cannon916 said:
(portions ommited for obvious reasons).... being as they sell a whole lot of serrated edges, all in the same grind profile.
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That's a big negatory. They are not all the same width/profile. Moving on. It seems that serrations scare NKP and KP partly for the same and partly for different reasons. Serrations do look scary. On the KP side, the (percieved and real) lack of ability for some to sharpen serrations causes some KP to avoid serrations and make up excuses as to why they and others don't carry/use/need serrations. While it clearly is harder to open the mail or peel an apple with a fully serrated knife, to that I would say, "get a letter opener and leave the peel intact". It is clear that not everybody "needs" serrations. The knife that I have pulled from my pocket (more than any other) for the last 15 years, has been a partially serrated blade. I use both portions of the blade for different tasks. I will not carry a knife that doesn't have at least "some" serrations. I also would not want to be without some usable amount of plain edge. The backup can be PS or fully serrated but not PE.
 
The serrations that CRK puts on their knives are gound on both sides and they work well for me. I suppose the grinding them that way is more difficult and expensive to do. The cutting transition from straight edge to serrated edge is smooth and hasn't been a problem for me. The are also easy to sharpen as they are ground at the same angle as the straight edge.:)
 
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