Knife Sharpening : How to Sharpen Serrated Knives

[theairsoftkid123]

can u serrate a knife with a sharpener?

[hackallpokemon]

is this math class? what you do to one side you do to the other

[JPEBeard]

Do you sharpen only on one side? Only seen you do one side.. Thanks,

[pandurate]

This is helpful and he's well spoken, but I still have lots of questions: What about SpyderEdge knives, where the serrations have large grooves and smaller ones? There's no way to get a round tool in there. And what angle should be used? 30-deg 40-deg?

[911650]

Would this still work for a blade that is about 2 inches.(It's a pen knife).

[Wilson1592]

@911650 Is it serrated? If so yes, but like he said you'll need a round sharpener to get all the groves. If it's a straightedge knife just use a whetstone to sharpen it.

[drbackjack]

@Digadogup

Knife shops tend to have knives on the walls.

[shawny142]

I have the KA-BAR Tanto, and it has small serrations, will the ceramic sharpening rod work on that?

[jeesjunk]

@shawny142

Lansky has a triangular ceramic stone. The angles work on my spyderco nicely

[shawny142]

@jeesjunk Is it the handheld thing? i'm actually buying one in a week.

[jockharrington]

jah rasta blood clot man i now go sharpen mi kitchen knives

[IndianaNature]

Is there a number of times you need to run the ceramic through each groove and is there a number of times to do each side with a strop?

[MacCairnie]

@IndianaNature There's never a concrete number. Experience will tell you when it's good enough.

[EmmeeLog]

Excellent! I really needed this info. I'm going to order a ceramic sharpening rod. Didn't know ceramic was best.

[peeweesherman]

haha this dude's the man. a little scary but the man

[iwoenailord]

@christhegreatish A strop is a leather strap, sometimes with a strap underneath made of other materials--perhaps a denim or linen--intended for sharpening a knife. The strop realigns the "microedges" one a blade, where a sharpener shaves them off. Strops are VERY common place for straight edged razors, as shaving the edge off, although necessary at times, can hurt the blade in the long run, and strop is a faster way of getting that super fine edge, on any blade really.

[barny084]

have you ever accidentally cut yourself?

[rsyncHavz]

very helpful

[TheWheelofLife100]

what do they mean by burr?

[TWutangT]

he says strap funny.

[meandmybuds]

@TWutangT He isn't saying strap, he's saying strop. A strop is usually made of leather and is used to hone the edge of a blade and to remove the burr after sharpening.

[TWutangT]

@meandmybuds ah, i see, thanks for clearing that up, thought he was just saying weird things with his pronounciation

[Taud]

these videos are too short an dont tell u shit they need to b like 15mins

[Norramp]

Funny, I prefer to sharpen the way he says not to. The edge bevel on most serrated knives is thick enough that it'll be decades before you remove the serrations, unless you use power tools.

[Frabit0]

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[bieli0]

can someone at expertvillage give this man a medal...and a pat on the back, he actually knows what he's talking about... that's a first for expert village.

[Neutrinoghost]

I really hope a mental patient never finds his way into where your standing...you gonna be fucked.

[slapthatmech]

how do you sharpen a serrated knife that have "teeth", unlike that knife mine looks like it has teeth (its a bunch of tiny triangles staggered side by side)

[byblosadvocate]

@slapthatmech - if you've dulled that type of knife it means it's been abused - just buy another.

[newhuskytwenty]

@byblosadvocate that`s exactly what I think mate, when a serrated edge is dull, or regring it to plane edge or buy another. Trying to get a sharp edge out of a serrated already abused is stupid. That's the reason because I choose hard steels (zdp 189 or vg 10) for serrated knives, they last longer

[byblosadvocate]

@newhuskytwenty - you know the best fine tooth serrated blades I've owned have been on my Ginsu knives (for food use) and most of all the serrated blades on my Leatherman brand tools - That's some hard steel brother. I have a 25yr old Leatherman serrated blade that still cuts paper near like an X-ACTO blade!

[newhuskytwenty]

@byblosadvocate I have recently purchased a Spyderco Rescue "junior" 79 mm and is fine with its vg10 steel, also have a Byrd Meadowlark partially serrated and Byrd Wings with one blade totally serrated. I guess their steel will not last sharp for so long as te Spyderco. I need serrations for my sport 'cause I cut often paracord rope and tree branches

[Silkyjohnson559]

could you use a round steel to sharpen a serrated knife? Just take the steel in between the curves of blade?

[skipstah70]

always wondered how to do this, thank you for posting!!

[patriotwife1776]

Smiths diamond rods are great. Pluss they have portions for straight edge knives and fish hooks

[PharQu]

You know all you dudes are talking about a serrated knife that still has the serrations, try and do it from scratch this way as a professional sharpener I have often been asked to serrate 1/2 a 12" chef knife from scratch. This guy has a fixation on global knives also who has that many knives in their workshop? I only see that many in a kitchen with 4 or more chefs!

[kneafster1001]

i dont get it, every serrated knife has a different size and shape groove. how can a single steel cater for all of them?

[tgbyhnujm98005]

As long as your ceramic rod has a smaller radius than the serrations it can sharpen by moving laterally during the stroke. This allows it to sharpen the different sized grooves.

[kneafster1001]

how do you sharpen bolstered knives without getting a gap at the back of the blade?

[hibylittle8]

i have horses so i wear cowboy boots most of the time and i just strop on them and it works great

[Sequitur213]

strop, where is that accent from?

[bestSVMS]

who has a leather strop?

[viewer1a]

He says in the Strop video that you can just use you leather belt.

[jayfulf]

do you own a leather belt? you probably do.. use the backside of it

[huntingboy2]

that is what i do

[guyglowmore1]

thanx. tried it and it worked somewhat.

[consistentbass]

So that is why the barber used a leather strap:

to knock off the burrs. ;D

[byblosadvocate]

@consistentbass - Not quite - actually a leather strap sharpens a razor blade at the finest molecular level - a strap of tough leather can actually save you money on razors blades and Xacto knife blades!

[zulizin]

@consistentbass Actually it is to un-roll the edge of the razor.

[xxbryan715xx]

@consistentbass it is a strop not a strap

[racenuke]

@consistentbass strop*

[mrbeligos]

not a good way to sharpen searations.

[w5monkey]

post a video response if yours is better

[mrbeligos]

no video camera here, but when I sharpen serrations ( I only have 4 spiderco's) I looked until I found CONTOURED CERAMIC STICKS FOR SPIDERCO'S PATTERN. you should push the stick into the blade trying NOT to create a burr. the stropping is a good way for the back. the trick for successful resharpening over the years is to match the serration pattern with the sharpening device, if you don't then you loose the original serrations and wind up with sharp nubs.sharp pointy teeth are a must have.

[consistentbass]

I see what you mean. but the video is not wrong he just used the sharpening rod that fit that particular knife. It should be common sense to match the serrations if you want your blade to perform the way it was designed to.

However the burr is something natural and will happen even to the molecular level. The thing is that you should not apply excessive pressure as to purposely create one.

[consistentbass]

However, I wouldn't recommend stroking back and forth of the rod because you can damage the blade when you create and destroy the edge if you are not careful .

At least I wouldn't to a beginner. Someone how knows the principles and has become skilled can get away with it.

[mrbeligos]

right on.

[1125djm]

my knife has different sized grooves and their are pretty fine grooves wat should i use

[deepmonstercave]

Makes sense to me. Thanks!

[augustfillmore]

You are misleading people on that. that is a fools errand.

[thrower247]

how am i misleading? what excactlly do you not understand?

[chibraxial]

very nice videos, thanks for your time !

[QuietBearr]

Ahh, that is how its done, what are you talking about?