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.

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

That's a great tip man, thanks, I was wondering how to get that razor sharp edge...now, you gave an idea.

Thanks!

PS. Pictures will be greatly appreciated!

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

Just curious what stones you're using? I've always thought the G5's were the easiest head I've ever sharpened. Using large Arkansas stones I have little trouble getting them scary sharp. I think the key is to only push them straight down the stone along the center axis of the head (no side to side or back and forth motion) and to decrease pressure as you get near finished with the hard (white) stone. I finish by stropping them on a piece of heavy weight paper (business card).

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

Heres a link to G5's sharpener Ive never used one but I've heard some of the guys in my local pro shop talk about and they say that it works pretty well.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0026341416413a&type=product&cm Cat=search&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&QueryText=broadhead+sharpener&amp ;N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mode+matchall&amp ;Nty=1&Ntt=broadhead+sharpener&noImage=0

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

The two coarse stones, used to create the primary angle, are Diamond Hone - #220 and #320. The fine stone is a white ceramic #800 - 1/2" X 1/2" X 6".

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

My hunting buddy got one of these a couple of weeks ago. It worked pretty well - got the blades sharper than I was able to get them by laying the head flat and working it over the various sharpening stones. I took the heads after he ran them through his sharpener and finished them with the shim trick. Became dangerously sharp. BTW - the .005 aluminum shim is the sidewall of a Miller Lite beer can :)

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

If you were asking I was gonna say throw them in the trash and get some Slick Tricks. [8D]:D

That's the issue I had with Montecs, they were never sharp and the metal seemed to be very soft.

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

Thanks for the help guys. I knew someone had the thing figured out with these heads.

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

great advise..thank you!

RE: Sharpening the G5 Montec
 

I sharpen mine the same way and have good results. I put pressure on them for the first few passes, then I lightly glide them on the stone to put a nice sharp edge on them.....works for me.