Sharpening Heads Face Shaving Close!

[Biggie Hoffman]

Joey is the best "sharpener" I've ever seen. He sure can put an edge on things, unlike Marty who thinks if you draw a file across a 3 blade two or 3 times, it's ready to hunt with.

[Don Stokes]

For my Snuffers, I use a Tormek grinding wheel similar to yours, joebuck, but it's a wet grinder and the wheel is wider, and has a leather wheel on the other side. You can lay the Snuffer on the wheel in just about any position, but I prefer having the shaft in line with the wheel so that it's grinding almost lengthwise down the head. Moving the head back and forth gets all of the cutting surfaces done, and no problem with the angle. It automatically does a 30 degree, which I like. I rotate the head as I go, using gradually less and less pressure, which takes care of most of the burr. The leather gets the rest and puts the final edge on.

My face is not an option- it hasn't felt a blade of any kind in several decades. Scraping the hair off your face is a perversion!!  

[hogdancer]

[joebuck]

Archie Bunker must have gone off, George has walked back over to his computer....The thread Hijacker is back ,George Stout!!!!!!......now george where is that thread you posted your distaste to hijackers?.....thats priceless......oh yea grinder was $38.

[Biggie Hoffman]

Now if I can just be the 1st guy to come up with a backpack size power inverter...........

[Marty]

That was a nice thing to say George, I wish Biggie was that nice to me! You hear him get on me? And it's not even my thread!

[joebuck]

Thanks George, i should have used another head for demostration but those are the heads i hunt with. This thread topic is about a sharpening wheel one can put on their personal grinder at home and achieve the same results woodwooders and knifemakers have for years with a similiar system. It's disappointing to me that some people on here do not give me the same respect i give their threads. It's a neat product, i was merely trying to do a tutorial on how to use it. ABS is a sponsor on here and i thought maybe someone would benefit from it. It took me about 4 hours to put it together for the benefits of others i do not even know. But it has now become i guess material for guys like you and others...so flame away.....i'm a pretty big fellow with a good sense of humor...so continue on with your agenda....i'll take the high road though.  

[shortstroke 91]

Who pays $129.95 for a grinder? Got mine for $10.00 at a garage sale and $20.00 for the wheels about 10 years ago. Never needed to resharpen them in the field anyways.

[Landshark160]

That's a good system.  I bought one from Woodcraft about 3 years ago and it does a great job.  I messed around and sharpened a knife for the head chef at a local restaurant.  He showed it to all of his sous chefs and I ended up sharpening knives for all of them.  A few of those knives were high dollar!

I got tired of resurfacing the grit wheel and went back to the medium wheel that came with my grinder.  If you give it a heavy waxing, it will have nearly the same aggressiveness as the grit wheel.

[tradtusker]

Originally posted by joebuck:
Thanks George, i should have used another head for demostration but those are the heads i hunt with. This thread topic is about a sharpening wheel one can put on their personal grinder at home and achieve the same results woodwooders and knifemakers have for years with a similiar system. It's disappointing to me that some people on here do not give me the same respect i give their threads. It's a neat product, i was merely trying to do a tutorial on how to use it. ABS is a sponsor on here and i thought maybe someone would benefit from it. It took me about 4 hours to put it together for the benefits of others i do not even know. But it has now become i guess material for guys like you and others...so flame away.....i'm a pretty big fellow with a good sense of humor...so continue on with your agenda....i'll take the high road though.    

thanks for taking the time to put it together iv been looking for one of those wheels.      

always got to take everything you get on the internet forums with a pinch of salt, most is in good jest but its a pity to see some of the comments.

[Ray Hammond]

the only difficulty I have with this is in the field.

I often do go places where I need to use a file...if you hunt in the wet, if you hunt out west out of a tent camp, if you are in Africa you probably won't have this convenience available.

It's nice to be able to do it without the wheel in roughly the same amount of time and achieve the same results.

Maybe I should do a sharpening clinic at the camp-  BROADHEAD SHARPENING CLINIC- 5 HOURS 500 DOLLARS AND WE'LL THROW IN A FREE HOG HUNT.

[joebuck]

Hello Ray!...Lets state this again...this is NOT a field sharpener...most guys do not take their Lannsky,Gatco or KME in their day pack.....we're not talking about replacing field touch ups etc...those are all vital skills but........this a great system to get your hunting arrows RAZOR Razor Sticky sharp before and maintain through hunting season. Thats sharper than any file can do....As far as you getting yours sharp as sharp with a file....OK I'll gladly take that bet.........Bring your file to Nashville PBS and I'll have my wheel there...we'll let the bowhunters judge which is sharper, quicker and easier??    I want charge you $500 for the lesson either

[bayoulongbowman]

I read somewhere using a grinder ur edge dont last as long, and using stone holds a edge longer. But I use WW and sliverflames...with no problems. good luck...

[Guru]

Impressive Joey!

Thanx for taking the time bud        

[leatherneck]

Very interesting JB. Thanks for the post.

[Burnsie]

Joe,
Where did you get your leather strop and sharpening paste.

[joebuck]

Burnsie...handamerican.com sells the paste and liquid. It's 60,000 grit chromium oxide. i think he will sell the leather strop too but any vegetable tanned hide will work although his aren't vegetable. he can make you up a kit i think. There are certainly other pastes and powders to use but this is the one i like.

thanks guys for pat on the back..hope i helped someone

[Bill Kissner]

This is a very good sharpening system as I have seen a similar one in action. I make a few knives and do basically the same thing with my knife grinder.

I do not carry anything to touch up heads in the field as I always have a few presharpened heads in my pack. Since I use carbons, I just screw a sharp head on if I dull one.

[tippit]

Dang Joey,  If only you'd have posted this earlier than I wouldn't have had to go and get all my expensive knife makin' grinders!  I agree those wheels can take a head to being scary sharp in minutes be it a Silver Flame or Magnus.  I sharpen my Wensel Woodmans that way then wrap two in cloth and slide them into a 2 inch diameter piece of PVC tube.  Easy and safe to take 10-12 heads on an out of state hunt in my duffel even when flying.  

As to field sharpening if I get 10-12 shots and no tags filled than I guess I have a different problem than sharpening my broadheads     Nice tutorial Joey.  Thanks...Doc

[hogdancer]

Doc, I like that, if you miss that much sharpening is not your problem!
I shoot some silver flames sometimes and the day I feel like I have to "justify" it to a stumpshooter from Pa. Is when I give up hunting. I respect others choices in heads even if I don't like them myself ,I think more respect for others choices is in order for some folks.
Joey is a buddy and we give him trouble sometime but he knows his stuff! Thanks for your time joebuck!