Single Bevel Serrated- Bread Knives

[Mark Reich]

Bread knives are all but defined by their large, scalloped serrations. Even the newest type of bread knife serrations are nothing special at best, and they are still sharpener friendly chisel grinds.

I've been spending some time sharpening bread knives and cutting nice, sharp, custom serrations on everything I've tried so far. 

I just sharpened a Vintage Gerber "Lord Sandwich", which is a Fabulous wider bodied bread knife, with excellent 440C steel. Gerber normally ran their stuff on the harder side of RHC 58-60, and it's far better than your average German stainless.

This knife was probably manufactured around 1970, and it's never been sharpened. It's been well cared for, but it's about 50 years old! In this condition, it averaged 700gf.

Using the 3/4" contact wheel and a used 150 grit belt on a TW90, I hit every serration until the tips were defined and sharp. I deburred the flat side on a 1k Shapton and distressed the edge as normal... in about 30 seconds.

Measuring in the middle of the serration, I was down to 270gf, but it felt sharper because the points are Very pointy!

Refined with a 400 grit belt, the second deburring and distressing is a little quicker. The teeth are like needles (that you sharpen before using as usual), and the scallops measure a surprising 130gf.

Chisel grind wins again!    

And we have unbound overkill of tooth, which is about right.

[grepper]

Now THAT'S what I call a toothy edge Mr. Mark.  

Can you post a pic of the knife/blade?

[Rupert Lucius]

Mark R. - Grepper - NOT to exclude anyone else

This family of products CRATEX (large wheels) work for ME when sharpening serrations:  A diamond dressing tool is used to reshape the "bull nose" and or make the wheel thinner than the 1/8" thickness when required.

https://www.cratex.com/Products/Rubber-A...rge-Wheels




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Rupert

[Mark Reich]

If I could figure out how to get a picture from my phone to this site I would post pictures all the time.

I'm checking with the wifely unit. She knows everything.

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Do any of you use Onedrive for Windows and iPhones?

[grepper]

Apple or Android?

If you have a regular computer like a desktop or notebook, you could email the pics from your phone to yourself.

Or you can plug a USB cable into your phone and download the pics onto a computer. The phone will show up on the computer with a folder (directory) structure just like a regular hard disk.

[Mark Reich]

Thank you for your help, Mr Grepper! I'm using Windows 10, or something close, for the PC, and an iPhone. Getting the pictures from phone to PC is a wi-fi cinch. I just can't get them transfered to the Forum.

When I try to insert an image, it wants the picture in an "http" form, which is the bone of contention. I've never been able to post pictures to a forum without a host converting from jpeg, and I obviously mis-chose the villainous photobucket hijackers. I think I need to cut the hosting business out of the equation, so I installed Onedrive on the PC and phone this morning. They claim to be able to upload to forums, so hopefully I'm on a path that will work....?

[grepper]

Is it OK with you to just attach an image to a post so it shows up as a thumbnail in the post?  If that is OK, reasd the following.  It will work, but your image must be 250KB or less:

http://bessex.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=53

A very quick way to scale an image to a smaller size is to:

1.  Display the image in any image viewer.
2.  While the image is displayed, make the window of the image viewer smaller.
3.  Use a screen capture tool to capture the image in the viewer window.
4.  Save as JPG to your desktop or wherever.

Once you have done that a couple of times, it only takes 30 seconds or less to do.

There are other simple/quick ways too.  Let me know if that does not work for you or if you have further questions about ways to quickly scale an image or anything else about getting images uploaded.

We WILL get you posting your pics quickly and simply!

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I use W7 so I didn't know that Paint that comes with W10 has a resize option built in. Give that a try.

Another option:

"You can resize the photo to the desired size through Photo Gallery app. Follow the below steps to resize the photos.

1.Open the Start menu, type Photo gallery in the search box and click on Photo Gallery (Desktop app).
2.Accept the agreement to install Window essentials 2012 if prompted (Enter the admin credentials if needed).
3.Now you may open the photo location from the left navigation pane on the photo Gallery app.
4.Select the photo and right click and select Resize."

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Another option is the free image editing program paint.net:

https://www.getpaint.net/

Open the image in paint.net.
Select Image>Resize, and resize the image.
Select File>Save As, and save the resized image to wherever you wish.