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Author Topic: Grizzly Sharpening  (Read 1423 times)

Offline BaldingEagle

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Re: Grizzly Sharpening
« Reply #20 on: August 16, 2017, 08:32:00 PM »
KME works great.  I used a grizzly to kill a buck about 25 years ago, but was unhappy with how poorly I sharpened them.  I bought the new grizzlies when they came out and a KME.  Very sharp right off the bat.  Killed a nice buck last year and the heads cut beautifully.
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Offline The Night Stalker

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Re: Grizzly Sharpening
« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2017, 10:32:00 PM »
Years ago, Monty Browning showed me how to sharpen heads on on a grinder with jewlers rouge.  That head was so sharp, you couldn't touch it. When a professional sharpener comes to the hospital to sharpen my surgical instruments, he has an array of grinders, belt sanders and buffers.  I bought a nice grinder, put a paper wheel like the one abowyer and Centaur archery sells. I turned the grinder facing backwards so the wheel turns away from you. For grizzlies, I use the fine grit to make a burr then go to he rouge side and remove it. I found this to be the easiest  and extremely quick way for me. If I am traveling to wet conditions, I dip the heads in that plastic coating that is heated on the stove. I have heard some put chapstick, Vaseline, or beeswax to protect the edge.  I sharpen heads for my hunting partners and shave the hair from my left hand and forearm till my hairy extremity is bald.  
It use to be a real chore for me and I have all the sharpeners, Lansky, KME, files, ezy sharp,etc.
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