Serrated knives

[StrawHat]

Yesterday, a customer asked me to restore this knife. Please enviously sharpened either on a flat stone of an electric sharpened.

Kevin

[StrawHat]

Here it is after the first pass to mark where the serrations will be.

Kevin

[StrawHat]

And with the edge beveled and sharpened.

Kevin

[Railsplitter]

Great work!

[mrwatch]

Nice work. the only thing I've read for Serrated is to use a round diamond file and touch up each one individually. Is their an affordable machine to do it? What about the folks that home make blades?

[StrawHat]

I am sure there is a machine that can cut serrations, after all, knife companies turn them out by the thousands. I am not aware of a DIY version.

I use a slow turning wheel to cut and sharpen the serrations. If the knive has been previously serrated, I follow the pattern. If it is a straight blade, I lay out enters with a ruler and marker.

I enjoy restoring knives to functioning tools.

Kevin

[doglegg]

Very impressive Kevin. Some very patient work there.

[btrwtr]

Good job on the serrations!

[Doc B]

[StrawHat]

Thank you all for the kind comments.

Not too sure about the patient part. I was about to complete that sharpening in just 10 minutes, first picture of the “straight” edge to final photo of the serrated knife. That is the 4th serrated knife I have repaired this month. I am sure there will be more.

During November I see a variety of damaged knives, some by careless owners, some by over aggressive sharpening. And the price of the blade does not guarantee how it will be treated. I have seen some very expensive hand made blades that were abused.

Thanks again, as I get more interesting items I will post about them.

Kevin

[edge213]

Thank you all for the kind comments.

Not too sure about the patient part. I was about to complete that sharpening in just 10 minutes, first picture of the “straight” edge to final photo of the serrated knife. That is the 4th serrated knife I have repaired this month. I am sure there will be more.

During November I see a variety of damaged knives, some by careless owners, some by over aggressive sharpening. And the price of the blade does not guarantee how it will be treated. I have seen some very expensive hand made blades that were abused.

Thanks again, as I get more interesting items I will post about them.

Kevin

Can you post a picture of the tool you use??

[Mumbleypeg]

You may not get a reply. The OP hasn’t logged in here since January.

I haven’t tried it yet on serrated blades but the Work Sharp Guided Sharpening System I recently got has three round ceramic rods of differing sizes and accompanying instructions that are included for that purpose. If they work as well as the rest of it does it should be good.

Ken

[StrawHat]

Can you post a picture of the tool you use??

Sorry for the delay in responding. I tend to forgot on what fora I post.

I use a foot powered set of wheels to sharpen. On each of my wheels (I use two) I radius the edge to get into the gussets. Each wheel has two of the common sizes. I get more of the Wusthof and Henkels blades that anything else but I have one edge set for the 5” serrated utility knives as they come in often.

Hope that gets you where you need to be.

Kevin