Blunt: please help!

[Josey Wales]

Hi all,

I am the proud owner of a Leatherman Charge XTi which I have been using on and off for the last couple of years and I think that it is great (I'll see if I can get my act together and write a review).

The ONLY problem that I am faced with now is sharpening the rather long serrated blade:

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The only thing that occurs to me is a sharpening 'rod' but I am not sure if this is correct and furthermore where I can find one of these...

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

 

[British Red]

Josey,

I use a Lansky pocket sharpener from Attelborough Accesories - works great!

Red

 

[JonnyP]

A spyderco sharpmaker will do serrated edges along with just about any other edge. My breadknives are sharp again, along with my sissors, potato peeler, axes, leatherman, etc etc. Good tool..................Jon

 

[Longstrider]

That blade looks like it has scallops set along a relatively straight edge. I would use my DMT sharpeners for it, as I do with virtually every other thing I ever need to sharpen. Getting the scallops sharpened would be done with a conical sharpener (to get into the scallop) and flats would be done with my normal diafold.

DMT stuff can be bought from Starkies at this address..
http://www.starkiesharp.com/dmt_miscellaneous_page19.html

 

[Josey Wales]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, much obliged.

One thing whilst were on the topic: I have a F1 which is the only knife that I am using at the moment so it has become rather blunt... how would I go about sharpening this (I have waterstones - I am looking for method advice)

Cheers,

 

[Nemisis]

Take your time theres no rush. keep the angle as constant as you can raise the burr alone whole length of the cutting edge then strop well to remove it.
Dave.

 

[happy camper]

Hi, the fallkniven F1 comes with a convex grind, for sharpening and maintaining mine i use "wet and dry" paper on a firm yet flexible surface like a mouse mat. It's easy to get great results, the mouse mat conforms to the convex edge so you don't have to worry so much about perfectly maintaining the angle or ruining the convex grind. The paper is cheap so you can go from quite coarse grades to super fine that will polish your edge and leave it razor sharp, if you do it regularly you'll find you only need a very light touch up or even just stropping will get the blade sharp again . If you do a search here or on British Blades for "Hoodoo hone" you'll find out more.

 

[British Red]

Josey,

I put some diagrams in the stick thread called "£5 sharpening kit". I use more of a stropping action on the convex grind of an F1 but it'll get you started!

Red

 

[Josey Wales]

Thank you for your help guys

 

[Andy]

sharpening convex edges is covered in my thread which is a sticky. I've now added serrations to that as well

I've found the key to sharpening serrations with a sharpmaker is to take it slow to allow the stones to go into the serrations rather then just grinding off the ridges.

 

[Josey Wales]

sharpening convex edges is covered in my thread which is a sticky. I've now added serrations to that as well

I've found the key to sharpening serrations with a sharpmaker is to take it slow to allow the stones to go into the serrations rather then just grinding off the ridges.

Ill have a look at that,

cheers mate