Took the Seratta out into the yard. Not too surprisingly it's not ideal for cutting vines. Its' great on wood carving. Certainly works fine, but a serrated sheepsfoot and hawkbill would be better. Will work on getting one of those.
The good news is that after spending several hours with it I can say the Seratta is a fantastic knife. It moves through wood well and holds an edge far better than rolled 440C. Not a little better. Much better. It sharpens back to newsprint-cutting sharp in a minute or two. The sharpening effort to edge holding ratio is excellent.
Didn't really expect it to. I'm surprised at how good a general purpose outdoor knife this is. It could probably be used for heaving kitchen cutting as well, like chicken bones.Mate shame it doesn't meet all your needs. Though it sounds like a great user for you.
Thanks for sharing.
Mitch
For trimming ends of bushes and branches, i like the long handle of the military. Good leverage when doing swinging cuts high up on a ladder.
When I was working at a wetlands project in North Missouri about 10 years ago I had gone down to the wetlands taking what I thought was my full SE Endura model>> but when I got there I had taken my full SE VG-10 Spyderhawk by mistake. So instead of going back to house which was about 4 miles away I went ahead and used the SE Spyderhawk and the results were astounding. For the rest of the time I was there working I pretty much just used that Spyderhawk exclusively and I was blown away at how good that blade could cut cattails, reeds, vines ( of all varieties), small seedling trees, and other woody type plants. When I was finished that week with all the work I had done with that SE Spyderhawk I only had to just briefly touch it up with my 701 Profiles.That is true, i think spyderedge is great for yard work and all work well. They Work real well on fibrous material.
mitch
If Spyderco's marketing department were to get together with one of the bigger gardening catalogs like A.M. Leonard or anyone similar to them>> then I don't think they could keep their H-1 Hawkbills in stock. They could bring back the H-1 Spyderhawk in SE & PE both and serious gardeners and landscapers or anyone in the horticulture trades would most certainly love them if they would ever try them.Agreed
I Like the h1 probably cause I'm slack.
More than once i have come in to clean up and forget to clean my knife till the next day.
Mitch
Mitch I don't know how long you or any of the other guys here on this gardening thread either have been here at BF for that matter. But back around 2005 to 2007 Spyderco had sold for a short time a "Spydersaw". Which was a folding saw very similar to the one you all showed on one of the pics above. It has a "Swedish tooth pattern" and I had one for a while>> the tooth pattern on the Spydersaw was very similar to really popular Swedish brands like Sandvik or Corona. The Spydersaw was also very similar to some of the gardening saws that I have owned made by Swiss gardening tool company "FELCO". The only thing I didn't like about the Spydersaw is that I couldn't figure out how to efficiently sharpen the teeth on it. I ended up trading it to one of the fellows here at BF and I wish now I would have kept it. They don't show up very often on the trading exchange or the secondary markets.JD
You are right it would be marketing made in heaven.
The hawkbill or peach pruner blade is still advertied as the horticultural knife of choice here.
Cheers
Mitch