Something interesting here is that sharpening this knife even on diamond rods didn't round off the teeth at all. There's so much going on with the geometry of serrations, apparently the starting angle of the serrations plays a big part on how the rounding effect happens.
It really didn't take much effort to fix the damage with the diamond rods, and then I followed it up with probably 30 or so passes on the brown rods and it's back in fighting shape.
That kink in the one serration from the CAT5 cable is probably going to be there forever but it did sharpen back up. All together with the way this steel sharpens and dulls, it's safe to say I'm fairly smitten with it.
It's hard to compare this to other knives because of the difference between the serration shape and angle. For example compared to my Caribbean, that knife came from the factory with a higher degree bevel (between 15 and 20 degrees), the teeth were far less pointed and by the time I had started that torture test I had already sharpened and rounded the teeth quite a bit. In this test I think it's worth noting that none of the teeth chipped off and the most significant damage happened in an area that I think the edge was already weak. When I cut the CAT5 cable with H1/Autonomy, it chipped off several teeth at the points, and that knife had also been sharpened on the 40 degree slots, so it had an even wider edge apex. The fact that this knife was sharpened on the 30 slots and started out with a much thinner edge is a big deal.
I still have a few other materials I can cut that I did with the Caribbean, I can do a Coke can, a car tire, some drywall and I can go cut some branches in my back yard but it's 26 degrees today so that may have to wait lol.
that maimed scallop does hurt just to look at it.
