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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: LongStick64 on March 04, 2010, 09:17:00 AM
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I'm going to try my best at sharpening my Tusker Concorde single bevel broadheads, what type of file do you suggest, I want to stop over the HW store and pick one up.
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12" Mill Bastard file is what I use. If you can find a 14" even better it is a little wider.
I use a Nicholson. Get your self a file brush while you are there to keep the grooves clean.
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IMPORTANT: Get a good quality file. At the hardware store, this means a Nicholson; nothing less! :readit:
If I was going to use just one file, it would be a quality 8 inch Mill Bastard. It is big and coarse enuf to move metal, but smooth enuf to produce a fine edge. My preference is a 10 inch Mill Bastard for the heavy work and then one of the 6" smooth cut files from our Trad suppliers for smoothing up the edge and removing the burr. :eek:
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John shows his sharpening set up on the tusker web site
http://www.bowhuntingaustralia.com/sharpening_broardheads.html
A lot of guys in Australia use a panel beaters body file, in the manner John is showing.
Very fast and easy.
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Originally posted by Fletcher:
IMPORTANT: Get a good quality file. At the hardware store, this means a Nicholson; nothing less! :readit:
If I was going to use just one file, it would be a quality 8 inch Mill Bastard. It is big and coarse enuf to move metal, but smooth enuf to produce a fine edge. My preference is a 10 inch Mill Bastard for the heavy work and then one of the 6" smooth cut files from our Trad suppliers for smoothing up the edge and removing the burr. :eek:
Same here. And afer filing I take off the burr with a leather strap.
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I agree with pretty much everyone who's posted thus far. Either an 8" or 10" Nicholson Mill Bastard file, a little chalk, and a file card to make your file last a long time. Good luck.