Red Feather Archery

We've got a new sharpening jig for our screw in heads, thanks to a customer in Canada. He's a taxidermist who made a mold for us to be able to make these plastic jigs that work with either sandpaper on glass (like I do all of my chisels and plane blades) or you can use a KME stone and a card. Here's the jig.



Front view with broadhead in the jig



Side view showing how to lock the broadhead in with an old insert turned around so the threads grab right away



To use the jig you simply run it back and forth across the sandpaper or stone making sure to count strokes to do an even job on all sides. I also try to put even pressure on the jig without pressing too hard. I use a small stone to take a little bit of the Teflon off of the back of the heads to get down to bare steel. After raising the burr I swipe it off with the stone again and one more time when I strop after the final polishing.

If the heads are really dull, you can smooth them out quickly by using a KME Coarse Grit stone. These things are DYNAMITE and I found out quickly that I could get the broadheads to hunting sharp with just this stone. To keep the adjustment screw from wearing out on the stone you can simply lay an old card down on the stone.



Here's a pic of the jig in action on sandpaper mounted on glass. I've got 320, 600 and 1000 grit on mounted on my glass.



The adjustment screw allows you to fine tune the angle to just about anything you want. This pic shows how it keeps one edge just off the sandpaper.



The finished result



If you prefer a mirror polish this is the jig for you, extremely sharp. I'm sure you could get even sharper with 2000 grit paper, but honestly these shave hair so well I don't know that it'd be worth the extra effort.

05_sprcrw

That looks slick might have to order one and give it a try.

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bucktowntrotter

How much is the new jig? About to order a quiver full and wanting to order the jig i think.

ike_osu

I'll be getting me one of those. I cut my finger bad last time i sharpened mine

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Red Feather Archery

Looking like they'll be $5.95. I think Mike will have them up on the website this evening.

05_sprcrw

For $6 you can't go wrong, I might as well get one!

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varmint101

Sweet! I still need to order more Talons. Might have to get this as well!

twistedfreak

cant go wrong there do they make anything for expandables

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roosclan

Mine will arrive soon, I'm thinking. Looking forward to trying it out!

roosclan

So, I tried some polishing on one head to get the hang of it with some 1000grit paper, even though I need to do a full sharpening with the 600 and 800. I'm not sure if I'm getting the angle correct, because the front 1/4" of the tip doesn't get polished with the rest of the blade (I use the Sharpie technique to check my sharpening angles). Either I didn't back out the screw enough and don't quite have the right angle (even though the sharpie is taken off the bevel evenly across the width), or the tip is at a very slightly different angle -- which would make a lot of sense for strength purposes.

Red Feather Archery

Yep, tip is a slightly different angle.