How Do I Sharpen A Chisel Grind Blade?

[Grime]

I bought a serrated Spyderco Native...

How do I sharpen it? I can sharpen any other knife, but I don’t know what to do with this single bevel... And I don’t want to screw it up.

Thanks

 

[Cougar Allen]

 

[Cliff Stamp]

To keep the bevel in the exact condition as new you sharpen the edge bevel, usually you have to freehand as it doesn't tend to match jigs, and the basically plane down the back.

-Cliff

 

[MeDoctor]

Chisel grinds must be sharpened using only one hand <just kidding!>.

Sharpen the serrations on the corner of a stone, or use the "corners" on a Spyderco Sharpmaker. As Cliff implied, finish the deed by laying the flat side of the blade flat on the stone to de-burr the edge.

Mark

 

[mwb]

If there are serious dings in the edge, I use a round chainsaw type file (pulling toward the edge) to straighten the edge, then use wet/dry sandpaper. Find a wooden dowel just slightly smaller (by the thickness of the sandpaper) than the serrations. wrap a piece of sandpaper around the dowel. (u shaped, I hold the dowel by the sandpaper edges at the back of the dowel.) Draw the sandpaper towards the edge of the blade at the same angle as the serrations. I start with 320 or 400 grit, move to 800, 1200, 2000 grit as needed.

Dave (D_R_Sharpening ) did a great thread about sharpening serrations over at Knifeforums:
http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/760831/post/858521/hl/+D_R_Sharpening/#858521

 

[Grime]

Cool, thanks for the help

 

[JD Spydo]

This is an interesting thread from the aspect of all of the sharpening equipment out there you would think there would be at least one that might be equiped to take on such an edge.

It really made me scratch my head when I contacted RAZOR EDGE Systems ( the makers of the RAZOR EDGE Sharpening equipment) and they would not reply to me even when I tried calling them on the phone

Here I thought they were the authority on sharpening so to speak . Well I guess what you got to do with a one sided, chisel edge is to see the configuration and take some waterstones and try to replicate the original angle as much as possible

I guess that's another EDGE PRO question I would like to ask it's owners/users. Come to think of it I don't see as many of these types of Chisel GRinds as I did back in the late 90s. Seems like Emerson did a lot of that stuff.

 

[gunmike1]

On most of the chisel ground edges I have seen the bevel is wide enough to easily be able to line up and lay it on a benchstone at the correct angle(oddly enough, like a chisel). You sharpen it to a burr and cut the burr off with a flat to the stone (or slightly elevated) pass on the back side. Works great, especially on tantos. However, I haven't tried that method on a huge chisel ground recurve (a la Commander), I imagine that will take more imagination.