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Anyone just sharpening the new griz with a bastard file?

Started by pdk25, April 20, 2010, 09:23:00 PM

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pdk25

I'm what some would call 'sharpening challenged'.  I've tried a bunch of ways to sharpen them and have cut myself more on the file than on the broadheads.  I got frustrated the other day and just started rasping the heck out of one that was threaded onto a part of an old shaft, using a double cut file. The LW bevel really lets my natural motion of filing with my right hand dig in without loosening the broadhead. I'll be darned if I didn't keep a pretty good angle and raise a bur.  After I got the bur off it was pretty darn sharp.  Not as nice as some of my friends can get, but not too bad and something that I think I could reproduce in the field.

Zradix

Started doing about the same thing. I've read the Ashby reports..great what the man has done.
But here's a thread from the past.
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=087371;p=1#000000
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.~Aristotle

..there's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.~ F.Bear

Molson

I looked at those heads you gave Mike.  The problem you're having is you're applying too much pressure and not keeping it even along the bevel as you pull it. Because the mill is not as aggressive as the curved tooth, it's not removing as much metal, which is why it appears to give a better result.  You can use just the mill file on the new ones that don't need the angle changed without too much grief but the Griz will still burn a mill out pretty quick.

I think you'll get it if you keep after it.
"The old ways will work in the future, but the new ways have never worked in the past."

pdk25

Oh, I'm gonna keep on trying. I know how sharp you guys can get them.

Richie Nell

pdk25,
I am NO sharpening guru by no means but...

I have the new 200 Grizz and use a dull bastard file, ceramic stick and cardboard.

I start by pulling the file down the angle usually from tip to back getting a small burr.  Then fine tune it with the ceramic stick and polish it a bit on the cardboard.  

For the tips I like to lay the flat side of the tip on the file and drag it down a few times to sharpen it in the direction of the other blades instead of the perpendicular tip that it comes with (if that makes sense).

The new ones are much easier than the older ones and I only loose 2 grains in the process.
Richie Nell

Black Widow
PSA X Osage/Kingwood 71#@31

Recurve50 LBS

Hi Pat,

A couple years back I bought some Grizly heads that I filed down to a pretty good angle and then went to work on them with my KME knife sharpener. I got the heads nice and sharp. Last year I bought some 190 El Grande Grizleys from Ron at KME that he sharpened for me. Those were way sharper than the ones I had sharpened. I know those Grizly heads are pretty time consuming to get that angle put into them. Give Ron at KME a call to see if he could hook you up with his sharpened heads.

I hope to see you and Ron this weekend at Whittingham. Hope that you are well.
Larry W.

Member TANJ

NRA Life Member

56" 45#@28" Thunder Stick Mag
62" 45#@28" Turkey Creek Longbow
1966 42#@28" Bear Grizley

Plumber

I stink at sharpening .So the way I do it is buy new heads every year.now I have about 30 heads that need sharpening.so I thought its time to start.Iwill be useing a file as well. there are easier ways an better ways.but this way is cost effective.


Dirtybird

Pat you keep working at it and you'll get it.  Tim forgot to tell you to sprinkle some curry on the file.  I think you have enough in you apartment.LOL   :banghead:

pdk25

QuoteOriginally posted by Dirtybird:
Pat you keep working at it and you'll get it.  Tim forgot to tell you to sprinkle some curry on the file.  I think you have enough in you apartment.LOL    :banghead:  
Ain't it the truth, lol.

Molson

Yes Dave!!!!!  I did forget that!!!! Very important!!!!!!!  :thumbsup:    :D
"The old ways will work in the future, but the new ways have never worked in the past."


Sharpster

Patrick,

Bring them with you to Whittingham this weekend and we'll figure it out.

Ron
"We choose to do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" — JFK

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