Sharpening a Fiskars?

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What would you recommend to sharpen a Fiskars hand axe. Please only post tools you have used and have success with.

Thanks!

TF
 
I have a Craftsman 4"X36" bench belt sander that I've modified the 6" disk on.
I use a 120 grit belt and convex the edge using the gap between the wheel and the plane that supports the belt. To clean it up, I use a 320 grit on the 6" disk.
 
A $10 axe file from canadian tire and a double sided diamond plate I picked up at Ragweed Forge does the job for me.
 
File if it's really bad, coarse/fine combo stone if it's not. I've never convexed my Fiskars, although I really should. But it's hard when you have a strong, shaving sharp edge on there already. I haven't had any major problems with it yet.
 
i used an 80 grit belt on my 1x30 belt sander to lay the bevel almost flat with the primary grind, then polished up to a mirror finish with very high grit sandpapers and a power strop.

if you don't have that kind of tooling handy, you can use a large single cut file like was mentioned to thin the bit some, and then any kind of sharpening stone or convex setup to polish and finish sharpen it.
 
I simply use the grey-rods of my sharpmaker with the angle in the 40o (20o inclusive) slots. Worked great!
 
I ended up using the alternate method that Siguy mentioned without reading his post. I used a single cut file and then a 2000 grit small flat stone until it shaved. It was easy to do surprisingly. What a nice axe!

TF
 
Coarse/fine bench stone, then a smith arkansas fine stone, then leather, It will shave:thumbup:
 
I've just been using the sandpaper-over-mousepad-on-Altoids-tin setup for mine. 400 grit seems to do just fine, mine will shave leg hair (I ran out of arm hair between this and my Mora).
 
I usually just touch up the edge with a normal file, the steel is fairly soft compared with most knives etc !
 
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