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A video taken in our sharpening workshop

Serrated Spydercos are held in high regard in Russian knife fighting clubs.

The video shows cutting a thick rope with Endura 4 serrated.
Video is of low quality, sorry.
https://youtu.be/PaXUP61vIjA

By courtesy of the Australian Knife Magazine publisher Michael Masion

PDF http://knifegrinders.com.au/Home/Sal_in ... to_AKM.pdf

We place the back side on the stone wheel as flat as practical. Many serrated knives we grind on the Japanese wheel #4000 - this is more of honing than grinding and causes no tangible bevelling. The serrated Spyderco in the video was too dull for #4000 and we did it on the stone wheel #1000 - in cas...

In our sharpening we take utmost care to preserve the original geometry of the Spyderco serrations, the peaks and the valleys.
From this thread I've learnt something new about rounded teeth, and this is good.

We need to differentiate between sharpening a serrated blade, and restoration of the worn serrations. Grinding in the serrations is not sharpening, it is restoration. We restore serrations with diamond coated rods of matching diameter. To simply sharpen a serrated knife, we grind the flat side of th...

Well, all professional sharpeners sharpen serrated knives from the flat side.

My approach to sharpening serrations is better explained in my post The Saga of Serrations on the Australian forum:
https://www.australianbladeforums.info/ ... ers/46726-

Teaching a rookie to sharpen Spyderco serrations on Tormek

video https://youtu.be/dgFJPv5M4nw