Which AccuSharp For VPA 2 Blades

[Coach Jones]

I have the OD Green Sharpener.   Would the broadhead sharpener from AccuSharp be better for VPA 2 blades?

[Stump73]

I use the kme jig on a stone and get them so sharp that you can hear it cut hair.

[old_goat2]

Yeah that's some mighty fine steel to be slicing off with the accusharp, carbide sharpeners like that really remove a lot of material, I generally reserve their use to in the field sharpening and for cheaper heads. A KME and a strop would be a much better choice, but either way you will need to finish them up with a strop!

[Doc Nock]

Check what bevel angle the ACCU makes.  I had one of those types and realized my blades were VERY sharp, but just one day in the quiver foam and they lost sharpness.

I found out they were set to produce a 19* bevel.  Lots of views on this topic, but I don't care for anything less then 25* as it's too fine an edge, gets scalpel sharp, but being to "thin" it wears quickly.

I had evidence it dulled going THRU the deer... Switched to KME...have both the BH sharpener and the knife system...

Ron at KME suggests corrugated cardboard works better then leather strop..leather will mound up like a wave ahead of the edge and roll it over where cardboard doesn't.  FWIW...works for me and is way cheap!

[LongbowArchitect]

"Ron at KME suggests corrugated cardboard works better then leather strop."

I'm going to give cardboard a try. Any tricks to using it Doc? Which way should the corrugations face when stropping?

[Jayrod]

Always on a single bevel head when stropping pull the head towards you on cardboard or whatever you strop with

[Doc Nock]

Originally posted by LongbowArchitect:
"Ron at KME suggests corrugated cardboard works better then leather strop."

I'm going to give cardboard a try. Any tricks to using it Doc? Which way should the corrugations face when stropping?

I think a lot of his stuff comes from the Blade Assn he is a member of.

Regular corrugated cardboard and go across the ridges.

Since Ron's tutelage says to remove the burr on the off side of even a single bevel, I tend to strop both sides which  means I orient the corrugations vertically and strop side to side... Whatever floats your boat... And gets you the sharp you want.

[damascusdave]

I can understand why a burr is a problem on a knife blade...I am not sure I can understand how a burr is a problem on a broadhead that is designed to cut once before resharpening

DDave