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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: savagelh on April 23, 2016, 07:55:00 PM
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Personally for me, I shave hair off my knuckles and forearms to check for an edge. Push cutting newsprint is another way I do it. Just wondering what everyone else does to make sure your broadheads are ready to hunt.
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I just feel mine. I can tell if they are sharp enough by feel. Same as a butcher, filet, hunting, pocket knife.
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I also shave a few hairs. If they pop I'm good.
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I ask my buddy to test it on his arm. If I have to take him in for stitches ( he is kinds clumsy) it is sharp enough.....
CHuckC
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I use a rubber band. I touch each side several places up and down.
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Same as reddogge, mostly. Once in awhile, I will try shaving arm but not much.
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Two different ways: 1) Bite into a finger nail; 2) Shave arm hair.
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Usually by the time deer season opens I look like I have mange on my arms and legs. :(
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Feeling
Bitting finger nail
And shaving arm hair
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I sharpen my heads very similar to what Tom Mussato does and I don't worry about it, I can tell with a light touch that they will work.
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Used to shave hair years ago but now just by finger feel.
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When they feel sharp, I then check to see if they will shave hair. Once they will, it is time to hunt.
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Slicing paper, testing on fingernail, lightly brush thumb. I like the rubber band method, think I'll try that too next round of sharpening.
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I run them across the diamond until I see a perfect edge and check them by feel, the time I stuck one under my thumb nail to check it didn't feel so well at all!
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I've never been able to get them here popping sharp, I just check with my fingernail.
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It's hard to shave with a three-blade, so I mostly do it by fingernail bite and feel.
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Like bowhunterGa,My says can tell it's hunting season because my arms look like the mange.
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I'm about like BowHunterGA, Bald spots everywhere. Wish I could get the dog to hold still! Michael do you have a KME BH sharpener? Man do they make em shave! I finish mine out on cardboard and then leather.
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I've always worked with my hands some way or another so I have some nice calluses... if the broadhead cuts into them just by its own weight then it's done.
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I check by feel just like sharpening a knife .
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I am in the shave club. Currently have some nice patches on my legs from this past weekend touching up some Cutthroats.
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Most all the above, but usually just feel.
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By feel and finger nail bite as well.
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Preferably on a critter but more likely to be on a tree trunk by mistake! But other than that I go with the majority and see if I can shave arm hair. My wife hates it and thinks its weird, which is a bonus!
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I just check them with my fingertips.
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Mine are all file sharp only so I just feel it gently with fingertips. I carry a small file in my pack to dress the edge if needed. I usually give it a single stroke on all four surfaces and it is like new again.
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Like some of the others...I have many bald spots on my forearms.
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I too shave hair on the back on my hands.....glad I'm not the only one!
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Me too! I also use rubberbands and by feel. Knock on wood no stitches needed yet.
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Rubber band method here. That's how my uncle taught me 40+ years ago.
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feel...fingernail...hair shaving
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A pack of rubber bands lasts a few seasons. The very light ones are more gratifying, but I am not sure that the thicker ones aren't more instructive: still thinking about that. Then of course there is the quicky thumbnail slide and the extremely cautious finger tip to edge technique