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Heres how to sharpen broadheads!!
I just finished setting up a couple of sharpening wheels I just got and I have to say that they are the best $30 bucks I have ever spent. I was able to put a perfect razor edge on my broadhead main blade and bleeder blades with this after about 5 minutes of practice.
The wheels will also sharpen everything from scissors to wood carving tools. GREAT Product. http://www.sharpeningwheels.com/razorinf.htm |
RE: Heres how to sharpen broadheads!!
I have a better way for my personal usage, for the inexpensive cost of replacement blades, I simply replace them and use the old ones for practice. :)
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RE: Heres how to sharpen broadheads!!
You must like buying EXPENSIVE replacement blades??? I don' t.
I polished my Buck knife so sharp that I could shave the stubble off my face with it without any lather or water. Now thats sharp... |
Have you heard of the scary sharp method?
I am also a wood worker. This is a sharpening method developed for smoothing plans, but works on nearly anything. It is a long read but kind of funny. Be carful you don' t split any atoms.:D
http://www.shavings.net/SCARY.HTM This is a testamonial from someone who used this method. The damn edge looks like an advertisement for the Wilksinson Sword razor blade. It' s practically white. I do the typical bonehead sharpness test, and try shaving my hairy knuckles. Instead of the hairs being shaved off, as I scrape along the skin, they topple over, as I glide the blade a few thousandths from my thumb. Sheesh. I pull a hair from my disappering crop on top, and precede to SPLIT it!! Holy Jaysus-jumped-up-cripes-on-a- popsicle-stick, this isn' t a plane iron, it' s a fissionizer. I spin around, inadvertantly splitting some nitrogen atoms, and the house explodes. |
RE: Heres how to sharpen broadheads!!
OK, here is the condinced version. No need to use the larger grit (lower numbered) papers if you are fairly sharp to start with. Agin this will need some adapting for broadheard.
To lap the back behind the cutting bevel: Use a very light coatings of 3M " 77" spray adhesive to temporarily glue small 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" rectangular pieces of sandpaper along the edge of a sheet of 1/4" plate-glass. The paper to use is Aluminum Oxide in grits 50, 80, and 100, and Silicon Carbide (wet-or-dry to you lay people) in grits of 150, 180, 220, 320, 400, 600, 1200, and 2000. The plate glass should be placed with its edge flush to the edge of the workbench. Grits can be skipped, if desired, but more time on each grit will then be required to fully remove the scratches from the previous grit. Using the gradual progression as listed, however, will require only about a minute or so with each grit." Lap the end one inch of the back of the iron on each grit in turn. You could use it wet or dry. About every ten seconds or so, stop and brush off the sandpaper with a whisk broom and wipe the blade off on your shirt. About ten minutes after starting, you should have gone from 50 grit on up to 2000, and there will be a mirror finish on the back of that iron the likes of which must be seen. Then jig the blade in a Veritas honing jig or go it by hand-- Clamp the blade down in the Veritas blade-holder device, taking care to have the bevel resting on the glass perfectly along both edges. Adjust the microbevel cam on the jig up to its full two-degree microbevel setting -- and hone away on the 2000-grit Flip the blade over on the sandpaper several times, hone and lap, hone and lap, each time gentler and gentler, to remove the little bit of wire edge The resulting little thin secondary bevel should be quite shiny by this time. Remove the blade from the jig, and perform the " shave some arm hairs off" test, or the sharpness test of your own choice. Of course, the ultimate test of a plane iron' s sharpness is what it does on wood. When it is all done, peel the sandpaper from the glass and throw it away. Then, scrape the little bit of residual adhesive from the glass with a razor blade, a quick wipedown with acetone on a piece of paper towel, and the cleanup is done in a minute. No oil, no water, no mess, no glaze or flatness problems to worry about, and a cutting edge that is Scary-Sharp (TM). |
RE: Heres how to sharpen broadheads!!
You must like buying EXPENSIVE replacement blades??? I don' t. I polished my Buck knife so sharp that I could shave the stubble off my face with it without any lather or water. Now thats sharp... |
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RE: Heres how to sharpen broadheads!!
There is 2 wheels to the kit:
1 is coated with Silicon carbide, then u use a wax on that wheel to control the heat and it does. The blades will get warm but you can still hold them with your bare fingers. The 2nd wheel is just slotted paper with an EXTREMELY fine grit to do the polishing. You use what is called Jeweller' s rouge on this wheel and let me tell u it leaves a PERFECT mirror finish. I don' t doubt Pluto' s method works but it sounds like to me it would take too LONG. With the wheels you get a razor' s edge in UNDER 1 minute. I think with enough pratice that u could touch up any FACTORY blade and even make it MORE sharp.(some factory blades simply aren' t sharp enough out of the package to hunt with IMHO). I have tried several different sharpeners in the last couple of years and this is FAR superior than any other I have tried... |
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