That the serrations on a Starmate are different because the steel has different properties I've read, and mostly understood why, so that's not my question.
<A HREF="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/diverse/knives/tmpimg/tmp_starmate.jpg"><IMG STYLE="float: right" SRC="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/diverse/knives/tmpimg/_tmp_starmate.jpg"></A> My question is: Are they also designed to perform differently than (for example) on the C15? On that, and some other knives, it feels sort of obvious what tasks they do better than the plain edge, but on the Starmate, I've so far not found an application where they are clearly superior to the unusually good plain edge, and that includes cutting:
cardboard,
plastic wrapping,
the hard plastic bands holding boxes together,
grass (with the plain edge you can push straight through a bunch of straws),
fresh and dry wooden branches.
(As you can see from the picture, this doesn't stop me from using the serrations anyway, so they aren't "bad" in any way.)
For at least some of these materials, serrations work better than the plain part of the edge on some other knives. But in these cases, the serrated part usually is sharper also for "push" cutting than the plain part.
Is perhaps the advantage not "ease of cutting", but rather "edge retention" with some of these materials?
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[This message has been edited by Griffon (edited 16 June 1999).]
<A HREF="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/diverse/knives/tmpimg/tmp_starmate.jpg"><IMG STYLE="float: right" SRC="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/diverse/knives/tmpimg/_tmp_starmate.jpg"></A> My question is: Are they also designed to perform differently than (for example) on the C15? On that, and some other knives, it feels sort of obvious what tasks they do better than the plain edge, but on the Starmate, I've so far not found an application where they are clearly superior to the unusually good plain edge, and that includes cutting:
cardboard,
plastic wrapping,
the hard plastic bands holding boxes together,
grass (with the plain edge you can push straight through a bunch of straws),
fresh and dry wooden branches.
(As you can see from the picture, this doesn't stop me from using the serrations anyway, so they aren't "bad" in any way.)
For at least some of these materials, serrations work better than the plain part of the edge on some other knives. But in these cases, the serrated part usually is sharper also for "push" cutting than the plain part.
Is perhaps the advantage not "ease of cutting", but rather "edge retention" with some of these materials?
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[This message has been edited by Griffon (edited 16 June 1999).]
