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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: BassBow on July 23, 2013, 12:41:00 PM
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Folks,
I am just getting into this and want to sharpen my woodsmans. Should I buy a file from three rivers, or is there a good model I can buy at the local hardware store? Thanks!
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10" mill bastard file from your local hardware store is all you need!
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For the past few years I been using a chainsaw file. I used a mill before that but think I get sharper this way. By the way I use snuffers.
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I use a flat chainsaw raker file. It gets mine razor sharp. The raker file is so inexpensive that I have on in each of my hunting packs and another on my work bench. It is a small file so a handle will help keep your fingers safe.
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14" babbit file for a couple passes.
Then coarse stone.
med/fine stone.
Then cardboard..
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I picked up a 12" file from Lowe's. Works great. God bless.
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Originally posted by Kelly:
10" mill bastard file from your local hardware store is all you need!
I agree, and you can get them super sharp with just a file too....but I finish mine on a Jewel Stick to take it to the next level of sharpness.
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As others have said either a 10 or 12 inch mill bastard file will do all you need to do with the Woodsman. I actually place my file in a vise holding on the edge so the flat side is up and stroke the broadhead on the stationary file. :thumbsup:
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I'm partial to a 12" USA made Nicholson fine file. Works great for my Snuffers as well as Woodsmans.I file the broadhead 2 blades at at time from back to tip. Then a fine stone, tip to back and leather strop back to tip. I work on the edge until the lines from the factory edge are pretty well gone.
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i love the original wensel woodsman head, my fave!
lotsa good ways to sharpen this fine broadhead.
mounted on a piece of shaft, i take a new woodsman and run it on a table sanding belt and slightly tip up the back end on all 3 sides to slightly reshape the too flimsy needle point into a tri-chisel shape.
then i push each side on a 12" mill bastard file to sharpen, finishing with a fine diamond stone. will shave arm hair. in my field possibles bag i take a 6" mill bastard file and folding diamond hone for touch ups.
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agree with cbcrow chain file is all i use.snuffers deltas and centour and simmons. one file does it all
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Great information! Thank you!
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3 sided Jewel stick works for me