Sharpening serrated edge with sharpmaker

Surfingringo

Surfingringo

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Ok, so I ordered the sharpmaker a few days ago, and I'm going to be getting a serrated edge pacific salt next week. Anybody spent much time sharpening serrations with the sharpmaker? I watched the spyderco video on youtube and it looks simple enough, but just wanted to ask if any of you had any real world experience with this. I know the spyderco se knives come very sharp. Will I be able to maintain that level of sharpness with the sharpmaker?

Thanks in advance,

Lance
 
Thanks man, I think that's the wrong link but ill forgive you. ;-). I had actually already watched his video on sharpening serrations. I guess I'm just curious what level of sharpness I can expect to maintain in real world practice. I suppose i'll just havebto be patient and find out in a couple of weeks. :D
 
Surfingringo said:
Thanks man, I think that's the wrong link but ill forgive you. ;-). I had actually already watched his video on sharpening serrations. I guess I'm just curious what level of sharpness I can expect to maintain in real world practice. I suppose i'll just havebto be patient and find out in a couple of weeks. :D
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Oops, sorry man. :o...I don't own a sharpmaker, but I like to carry a leatherman sidekick (it might be the wingman I don't really rember) I can usually go on 9 or 10 fishing trips and the serrations will still be reasonable sharp. The leathermans 440HC though, H1 will probably hold and edge better though. Just my 0.02 cents. :) ~Kirby
 
The sharpmaker works great on serrations. The only problem with it is that it will gradually round off the points. I have a Delica I've been using and sharpening for something like 2.5 years now and it's points are not very "pointy" any more. They still penetrate material, but not like when they were new.

This is because they are constantly having their tips dragged over the rods as you use the sharpmaker. I've developed a technique to try to lessen the rounding off, but it doesn't seem to restore the points...just keeps them from wearing as fast. I think I'm going to need to use profile stones and a loupe to try to reshape the points into proper sharp peaks again.

My technique for minimizing wear is to try to do each serration individually on the sharpmaker edges. Running the blade straight up and down so it only hits the inside of the serration I'm working on. When I want to move to the next serration, I *gently* pull back on the blade until the SM rod slips into the next serration. Then go straight up and down again. I also apply a little bit of forward pressure on some strokes to try to hit the parts of the serration near the tips, but not enough to roll over the points. Backwards pressure on some strokes gets the other outside edges of the serrations. This might be hard to visualize.

Anyone have good advice on how to make the serration points super super pointy again? Besides sending it back to Spyderco? :)

Brian.
 
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