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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: wisconsinteacher on October 05, 2010, 12:23:00 PM
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Last night I took a Stinger that has been used to take a deer and sharpened it. I use a Gatco kit. The kit uses a clamp and hones that follow different angles. I used a marker to make the edge black and found that 19 degrees would work best. I used course, medium, and fine to work the blade. At that point, it would not shave hair. I then hit it with an AccuSharp as light as I could for 20 passes. After that, I could shave hair. To me that is sharp. My question is, how do you test your heads to make sure they are hunting sharp?
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I shave hair or see if it will slice paper under its own weight.
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Shaving fine hair (or cutting myself trying)... only way I have ever done it.
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Same as above. Don't want it just to catch. Want it to take off a whole bunch at skin level without a lot of pressure. Works for me and has for 40 years. :deadhorse:
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After putting the angle on the blade, I strop it on leather using jewler's rouge to be sure its not just a wire edge, which will come off before it gets through hair and hide.
If it will catch on your fingernail, it will shave hair.
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Hair shave test always for BH's & knife. Scissors on relaxed latex glove (not pulled tight).
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I make sure it is a 'real' edge and not a fragile burr, and then give it a test on a dry arm or leg. Wet hair is too easy.
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I push it through some rubber bands stretched loosely on my fingers. Seems to me that simulates viens and arteries pretty well.
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OK, I will try to describe how I do it. I hold my thumb on my left hand upright at about a 80% angle (almost straight up). I take the sharpened broadhead and put it on the nail with the edge parallel to the ground at a 90% angle (straight down). A edge that will stick on the nail without sliding down the nail is sharp enough to shave hair, and not leave my arms looking funny - they already look fun enough without being bald. After a while you will be able to feel the edge and how it bites on the nail. Clear as mud, I know, but works for me. Got the idea from an old bowhunter. :)
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I saw on a movie one time a guy throw a silk scarf in the air and let his sword cut it as it drifted down on the blade. That is sharp!
I'm not sure I understand the "cut paper with its own weight" test.
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Fingernaiil test for me. My arm is too hairy to shave off any. Bald spots are too easily noticeable after testing that way.
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on some tight rubber bands
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Yep use the fingernail test.
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When I look straight onto the edge if I feel it's about to cut my eye... it's sharp enough..lol
God bless,Mudd
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go dry shave with blade...to scary to touch...