Razor Sharp Broadhead Solution

[Mitch Edwards]

Just wanna add something here. I'm a machinist and the single biggest reason a file gets dull is because it only cuts one direction. Dragging anything from the tang to the tip only serves to flatten the teeth down

[Tajue17]

Originally posted by Mitch Edwards:
Just wanna add something here. I'm a machinist and the single biggest reason a file gets dull is because it only cuts one direction. Dragging anything from the tang to the tip only serves to flatten the teeth down

thats one of my problems,,, but is it me or do files only come in one direction,, you think you could flip it over to file the other side of the blade going in the opposite directions.

[smokin joe]

Tajue17:
Always push a file away from the file's handle -- no matter which side is up.

So, if the file is like this.....

handle        file
:=====:///////////////////////

You should push it >>>>>-------------> this-a-way

Make sense?

[Mitch Edwards]

I use nothing but a 8" file and a leather belt with polishing compound. I put my broadheads on a short piece of arrow and hold them in a small vice I have that will swivel in about any direction. As I believe was mentioned earlier Ill black out the bevel with marker to see where I am at. One thing I may do differently than some is I make sure I get a nasty bur rolled over and leave it for stropping. Once the bur is stropped off the edge is sharper than I can get it any other way. Ive got diamond stones natural stones and ceramics and have spent hours trying to get broadheads what I would call sharp. The file method seems to be best for me. I dont shoot 3 blades but have sharpened them for friends and I do it like everyone else does really.

Last year i bought a KME broadhead sharpener because I had heard Nothing but great things about them. Now it sits in the drawer. Again I spent hours with it on a file stones paper you name it and I was just never able to get them as sharp as I can by hand with a file. Maybe Im KME ignorant but I know what works and for me and I think Ill stick with it.