Grain loss from sharpening BH

[Stephengiles]

I was curious on average how much material is taken away when sharpening. My Magnus stingers use replacement blades if I need them,but Ive considered shortening my arrows and going to a 200 grain Tusker . I don't have a grain scale yet but I was reading on another web site and some people were talking about taking off 35 grains or so when they sharpen. Didn't say if that was over the life of the head or from one sharpening. Is this normal , I can shoot a stiffer arrow ok but this sounds like enough to change spine every time you sharpen them. My stingers fly true but I'm having a hard time sharpening them. Well one day I missed and cracked my arrow at the insert so I got on Stu calculator and the new measurement with bigger head spines perfectly. Plus the tuskers look like they have death written all over them so i would like your opinions on these also.sorry for the long post I'm off work today

[WTM45]

35gr from honing?  Sounds a little radical to me!

[Bjorn]

I have weighed them before and after and the difference has been 10 gns +- but some heads can be more stubborn than others.

[Charlie Lamb]

Depends on your sharpening method. As said above 35 gr. seems a bit much and I'd say a person doing that could benefit from buying a KME Sharpening system... I doubt you'd lose more than a grain or two on a heavily abused edge.

[Stephengiles]

Yea I thought that sounded funny. I've sacrificed one of my stingers to try different methods of sharpening and wouldn't think I've taken off that much yet even experimenting. Sounds like that would be a noticeable pile os shavings. Thanks guys.

[Bjorn]

The 10 gns loss I was referring to was measured putting a new bevel on the old Grizzlies.

[SlowBowinMO]

I like to file sharpen, even if I get real aggressive 15 grains is the most I've ever taken off a head, and more like 10 is typical.

And that's using a file to set an aggressive larger bevel, like you'd do on an older Grizzly like Bjorn mentioned.

with my single bevel Hills, I reduce a lot off of the ferrule and take off about 20 grains from the head with the blade in an un ground condition.  After a season or two of resharpening there is another 5 grains less.