Sharpening the G5 Montec
I know sharpening is an issue with this great little broadhead. I tried for several hours to get a shaving sharp edge on mine and couldn'tget much better than "kinda sharp" - laying the blades flat across a stone and going from coarse stones to fine stones. It just doesn't seem to get there.
About a year ago, I bought a neat little electricsharpener from Cabela's called the Chef's Choice. It has an agressivediamond wheel that cuts an angle on the blade of about 20 degrees, and then a fine ceramic wheel that cuts an angle of about 21 degrees to put the fine edge on it.
Applying this logic to the broadhead sharpening, I put the head in a machinist's vise horizonatal. I firstsharpened each pair of blades with a 220 grit diamond hone and a 320 grit diamond hone - cutting across two blades at once. Like I did before. Then I got out the fine ceramic stone and used a little shim made of a .005 piece of aluminum - cut to 1" X 3" - to lift a stone up just a little off the closer edge and allow me to stone only the edge facing away. This only sharpens one side of one edge at a time, but it puts the angle of the fine stone a little steeper than what the diamond hone just cut. After sharpening each of the three blades on one side, it is necessary to turn the broadhead facing the other way to sharpen the other side of each of the three blades.
Hope this make sense. I was able to get the Montec shaving sharp with this method. I'm not real swift with inserting digital photos, but if this isn't clear I can try to talk my daughter into helping me post a photo.