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How to sharpen a chisel ground blade?

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KyleMS11

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I have a spyderco pancehnko dog tag i need to sharpen. Wondering how i am supposed to sharpen a chisel ground blade? Do i just sharpen one side? Ive heard it can be tricky. Is it possible to do this with a sharpmaker? Thats all i currently have. Thanks for any help.
 
Sharpen the bevel until a burr forms on the flat side, use a fine or UF SM rod to to remove this burr periodically. Try and be consistent on the back bevel, I would set the SM rod in the 15 slot.
 
Jason, would you suggest laying the flat side of the blade flat against the rod and then lifting the spine just a hair to knock the burr off? This is how I do it on my Lansky rod systems. Or...Would you just hold the blade vertical and knock the burr off at the same angle as the beveled side?
 
Jason B. said:
Sharpen the bevel until a burr forms on the flat side, use a fine or UF SM rod to to remove this burr periodically. Try and be consistent on the back bevel, I would set the SM rod in the 15 slot.
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Thank you. Will give it a shot.
 
G. Scott H. said:
Jason, would you suggest laying the flat side of the blade flat against the rod and then lifting the spine just a hair to knock the burr off?
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I'm not Jason. But that's the way I do it. Adding to what Jason said before: When sharpening a chisel ground blade, I like to minimize burr production on the "flat" side, by doing light strokes periodically on the flat side. Say you have a total of 10 minutes of work to do on the ground side with a coarse stone. In that case I'd do a short round of strokes on the flat side every 3 or 4 minutes. That way you never build up a giant burr to remove. Eventually you'll grind the entire beveled side correctly and end up with a small burr on the flat side.

I do this same thing with serrated blades, but it's in reverse since I do serrated blades from the flat side for most of the grinding and only knock the burr off on the beveled side of serrated blades. That's another lesson from Jason. :)

Brian.
 
You don't have to be Jason. All opinions are welcome. :D Good advice, btw, on not developing a giant burr. I'll try that next time. Thanks. :thumbup:
 
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