"SNUFFER" Sharpening ?

[Morning Star]

Steve O  

[joe skipp]

Mr Snuffer used a stone and file...  

[Steve O]

Joe,

You know how Roger is...

This is what he has found works best nowadays if anybody is interested in some "other" method of sharpening a 3 blade to a razor edge:

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=031172

[longbowben]

Snuffer tamer has never weakend any of my heads.  

[PAPA BEAR]

you can grind away with your files and all...been there done that...the tamer holds the angle as you stroke the b/h back and forth.i think i'll deal with a slightly thinner blade than one that wont shave hair off my arm....not all of us can spend 8 hours sharpening b/h's...my money is on the tamer.....

[Guru]

Ha-lay-luya SteveO            

Excellent post buddy!!

As far as hardening......sounds to me like you're messing with the temper unnecessarily    :confused:

[PAPA BEAR]

i am messing with it for sure...making it harder...better...i can shoot mine through a 55 gallon steel drum and a few strokes later shes good as new.nothing wrong with improving a good product far as i know....think its called progress eh

[leatherneck]

I agree that the tamer is not the ONLY way to get them razor sharp. Charlie Lamb has a pretty good system as well. But Steve, there is nothing wrong with the tamer. I have used it for alot of years and it has not failed me yet. Frankly, I could care less what happens to the broadhead after it goes through my game. As long as it stays together until the work is done. Other than the occasional rock that I may hit after pass thru, the tip on my snuffers has never failed. But maybe I have the super strong Snuffers!!!    

Mike

[anchorman]

Elkherder..if I remember right that while sharpening the head on the "tamer" it doesn't get to th epoint with the rest of the head and leaves it somewhat at a different shape like putting a grove in the blade. I have used a file and stones or even just a file and leather for years now I can guarantee that if they don't shave hair on all three blades they aren't in my quiver. Maybe I am lucky and have gotten easy heads to sharpen but I have no problem with getting them sharp with just the file and stones...

[PAPA BEAR]

i tried sharpening them with files etc for a while but was never satisfied with the sharpness as it wouldnt pass the rubber band test i use on all my broadheads....possible i wasnt doing it correctly i guess but i still stick with the tamer kit...i see no change in the tip at all using the tamer,i hold the b/h up towards the point on some of the rotations...then i harden them and look out man they are lethal...i am also messing around with serrations on the back half of the blades gonna try that out soon

[HATCHCHASER]

Different stokes for different folks.  

[PAPA BEAR]

yup

[Don Stokes]

I guess you meant "strokes"...      

The different Stokes.

[PAPA BEAR]

haha....stokes...lol....sounds like some willie nelson stuff goin on man

[String Cutter]

I think I've tried everything suggested to me. From files and stones...PVC pipe w/sandpaper. The Tamer... Just can't get the things to the sharpness I like... Finally just gave up. The Magnus 1 with 4 blades I bet will make just as big a hole and I can get them hair poppin sharp in no time. Those of you that can get them sharp are really blessed. They look like they will do the job well.

[longbowben]

Wow the tamer is very easy to get hair poppin sharp .I think i might have to make a viedo on how to use.

[joebuck]

Steve O.......bench grinder? Are you holding the head perpendicular to wheel at the top?

Roger is hollow grinding his heads. It's steeper blade angle than 30 degrees..it may be steeper than Snuffer Tamer (less than 24 degrees).

I "soften" my heads with a torch so my files remove more stock quicker if they initially skipp across the files.

A snuffer tamer used improperly could damage a head But not as quick as a 6 inch Grinder used improperly.  LIGHT PRESSURE on any method

[Builder]

I have tried the single file drawing it to you eventually getting lighter strokes each time. Then used the wet stone and finally leather strop.
Couldn't get them to shave. Cut rubber bands but not shave.
Then I tried the grinder, two edges at a time like the pics steve O posted. I hit each of the three sides twice (two blades at a time) then each side once lightly. Then two light strokes on the crock stick and they would easily shave hair.

[PAPA BEAR]

long as it works

[Steve O]

Joey--I am the face man--remember      There are pictures in that link...

Yes, I know it is hollow grinding and it is making a steeper angle.  It can be done flat too, that I am sure of.

My points were:

1.  This is really the MAIN point...The Snuffer Tamer is NOT, as was stated earlier, the ONLY way to sharpen a Snuffer or any other 3 blade razor sharp.

2.  Ryan posted the way the Rothaarr's sharpen their Snuffers.  To me, this is valuable information and I prefer to do it the way they do it because I know they have tried EVERYTHING and that way works best.

3.  Mike Sohm  vehemently opposes the use of the Snuffer Tamer--I bet it voids the lifetime warrantee--so I stay away from it.  You guys use whatever you want--just don't tell ME that the ONE tool the manufacturer of the broadhead says should NOT be used on his broadhead is the  "ONLY" way to sharpen it!

4.  Snuffer Tamer guys; take your hair poppin' blades and turn them an extra 15 degrees to put them back to the same angle as the standard flat sharpened Snuffer and see if they still pop the hair the same.  AND two blade guys...take your super sharp thin fragile edge and rotate it to the 60 degree angle that the 3 blade has to have when dragged across your arm and see if they pop hair the same way as they do when you have them turned at a right angle to the hair like you would typically do to give your blade the best advantage...without that 3rd blade getting in the way.

I don't have time to draw pictures, but I know I am right   :D  .  Think about it.