Fred Bear

BTW - whats hollow ground?

tigerhunter

FB, those razor strops will seal the deal for you. I have an old "Russian Red" razor strop that I use. It helps to tighten the pores and firm up the edge without removing really any of the metal. It will give it the best "burr" possible. Hollow ground is a term used when you sharpen something by first giving it two concave areas along the blade which forms a microscopic edge below the two concavities. It is basically just as you sharpen a knife, but the difference in the edge can be dramatic due to the shape of the blade, even though the method of sharpening is the same.

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Fred Bear

I use a Gatco sharpener on them. Does this produce this hollow ground edge?

tigerhunter

Not in its true sense. It's more of a flat edge like we put on our knives. Truthfully, to my knowledge without expensive machinery, it's impossible. The edges from the factory even are probably not true hollow ground edges, but a combination of a flat edge and a
hollow ground edge as a hollow grind produces such a fine.edge that its not good for broadheads.

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