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Buck fillet knife
- Thread starter jackG
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Jack,
It sounds like you have one of the older fillets. I believe the steel is 425mod. We brought the hardness down on the fillets a few points due to its usage. about 56 if memory serves. The worse thing you can do is use a carbide tipped sharpener on that blade. They tend to chip out. Just use a good diamond stone and keep it sharp.
Hope this helps.
It sounds like you have one of the older fillets. I believe the steel is 425mod. We brought the hardness down on the fillets a few points due to its usage. about 56 if memory serves. The worse thing you can do is use a carbide tipped sharpener on that blade. They tend to chip out. Just use a good diamond stone and keep it sharp.
Hope this helps.
Thanks Joe. My late father in law had put the thing on a bench mounted grinding wheel with grit fit for sharpening a plow blade. He was an Oklahoma rancher and didn't screw around with subtlties. One side if the blade looked as if it had been dragged behind a car for about 20 miles.
I got some sand paper starting at about 150 grit and worked down through 1000 grit. Then used Mothers metal polish and put everything to a mirror finish. It's a very short blade which has some applications a longer blade can't provide. I've got a Phi Wilson in 420V but the blade is 8" but that's a bit much for pan fish. I used Spyderco ceramic sharpeners on the Buck and so long as the angle is kept very low it takes a great edge. For doing yellow perch and fish of that size it's great. Thanks again.
I got some sand paper starting at about 150 grit and worked down through 1000 grit. Then used Mothers metal polish and put everything to a mirror finish. It's a very short blade which has some applications a longer blade can't provide. I've got a Phi Wilson in 420V but the blade is 8" but that's a bit much for pan fish. I used Spyderco ceramic sharpeners on the Buck and so long as the angle is kept very low it takes a great edge. For doing yellow perch and fish of that size it's great. Thanks again.