That’s really helpful insight. I was worried about carrying only a serrated edge because my most common edc use is peeling and slicing fruit, the kind of simple on the go “food prep” that doesn’t require a kitchen knife. The endela and even the delica and native all do great for peeling and slicing apples and oranges etc.vivi wrote: A lot of the benefits of SE vs PE don't apply when the PE knife is sharpened very coarse…
That's why I went from being such a strong advocate of SE, to putting my enthusiasm behind very coarse PE edges. Because to me they offer most the advantages of SE (Cutting great even when dull, edges not slipping off materials, very aggressive slicing) while removing the drawbacks (SE is weaker than PE, SE snags more than PE regardless of how its sharpened, SE takes more specialized equipment to sharpen).
YMMV but in my life I don't require a PE or SE from a utility pocket knife. I can get by with one or the other. Other specialized knives like machetes and chef knives I may require a specific edge type, but I don't personally see a benefit in EDCing both types.
So anyway I tried a serrated steak knife to peel and slice an apple today. That knife wasn’t very sharp but the serration pattern was reasonably good and I was surprised at how clean the cuts were. If you examine the surface of the cut you can tell it was cut by a serrated edge but it was smooth and wavy not shredded. So that makes me understand your point that really I wouldn’t need to carry both, I could do all those small food prep tasks with a spydie edge no problem, and I think in the garden with vines and roots and fiberous plant stuff I would benefit from a serrated edge.
Excellent insight. And it is interesting because I spent almost a year carrying only a dragonfly so sometimes the endela feels massive for me but at the same time when I am doing camp cooking I sometimes wish for something longer.Wartstein wrote:
Since you already know the Endela, I think it would be a good option to go with that one, but in SE and VG10 (rather affordable too). It has a great serration pattern.
Now for your question: If I carried a large and a small knife and one of those had to be in PE: Without any doubt I´d go with SE for the large one and PE for the small one (and make the small one a wharnie perhaps).
I also love scuba diving and free diving (though I’m not doing much right now, I was diving more often while in Asia last year.)
So if I get another serrated knife I sorta want it to be either the pacific salt se or the native 5 magnacut se
I need to save my funds for a little bit though because a few days ago I got scammed on Reddit trying to by a magnacut native 5 (a bit my fault, I was obviously slightly too trusting, but I learned my lesson) but that’s a reminder when buying online to follow your gut. If something feels amiss then just pass on it.
thanks Vivi and Wartstein for the thorough responses as always. I appreciate your thoughts.
Another thing is that everytime I think about buying something serrated a shiny new plain edge blade takes my money one of these days…