What about serrated edged knives e.g. bread knives?

linw:

 

What about serrated edged knives e.g. bread knives?

 

if you're asking about mine - they're also useless

if asking how to sharpen ... good luck! 

Batman:

thanks. looks like knives condemned.

 

i have a two stage sharpener - does squat to the blunt german hard steel set

 

brilliant for the countdown el-cheapo.

linw:

What about serrated edged knives e.g. bread knives?

Yes, buying anew has to be the answer.

I've just invested in the Syperco Sharpmaker system for my kitchen knives, as it seems the best compromise between fully manual stones, and a 'system' to guide you towards getting the right angles.  Most of my knives are Globals with a Shun carving knife and an Amazon.com butcher's cleaver.  I'm still perfecting my technique, but I can see already that this will be everything I'll ever need, and it also does scissors and serrated knives.

i bought some water stones from trademe:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=2382308478

they turned up and i started shapening one of my kitchen knives... started with 400 and it just didn't seem to be doing much.

worked my way up through the grits and as the numbers got higher, they seemed to be more coarse and worked better.

I decided that they must be numbered back to front.. aliexpress special or something, so worked my way through the grits backwards.

By the time i got back to the 400 grit it was putting a real mirror polish on the edge and was razor sharp... funny.

i bought one from aliexpress, arrived 3-4 weeks, today. it works like it should. my knives went from can't cut anything to cuts everything. can't do fruit ninja with them-  i'm not very skilled at sharpening, but when knives don't cut and the other tools don't work, it's better than nothing.

got the 400/1000. came with a chip but who cares, it's so cheap. i think the numbers are labelled correctly.