Sharpening a THICK Dwyer Chisel Grind

[OilMan]

Hey all,

How many of you guys really use your Dwyer Customs daily? If you do how hard/easy do you find it to sharpen his chisel grinds? What are you using? (Stone, SM, Edgepro...) What are you sharpening? (The whole primary edge grind, just the very edge of the primary grind, or the off side?) Seems like if a guy just did one or two passes on the off side of the grind he'd get it sharp pretty quick... but then it would be the start of a V grind instead of the chisel.

The reason I'm asking is I just re-got the Dwyer SnG ShroudCutter and at the price I got it for I'm gonna use it but was wondering the best way to sharpen the chisel grinds on it. I also have a chisel ground drop point DDC SnG that I ended up cocking the living shit out of my SM so my angle was just a touch more obtuse than the primary and sharpening just the edge. I then do a light pass with the off side to remove the burr. This seems to work well but I'd like to know how you guys are doing it.

TIA,

Greg

Here's da knives I'm talking about:

 

[richard j]

i make fixed blade chisel grind knives. i use the cardboard wheels to sharpen my knives with. i have used or seen all kinds of sharpening systems but when it comes to ease of use and putting a razor sharp edge on a knife, these wheels are the way to go. i have some short videos that i made showing me working up a burr on a single bevel that i made which was dulled for the demonstration. you can also do tanto's which i will make a vid showing how to do them also. stevebot, a member here sells the wheels to other members at a discount. there are other brands but steve's are the origonal ones which are the best ones going.

 

[65535]

From the pics I would say it's not actually chisel ground but it does have a large bevel that brings the thick spine down to an acceptable thickness for the actual edge, which appears to be a standard even on both sides grind.

 

[Jared Stenoien]

First of all I'd take a belt sander to it and convert it to a zero flat grind if that's too drastic I know on chisels I hone the back (flat) side and then strop the front.

 

[OilMan]

So, I re-buy the Dwyer Shroud Cutter SnG One Off from Impact22 on JD and when I get it it won't cut butter. Which is how it was the first time I had it. I guess I was hopin someone would sharpen it at some point but it didn't happen. So... I'm thinking to myself that I don't want to screw it up myself and will send it to the spa to get sharpened. Did I tell you I'm not good at waiting? Well, I'm not.

So... I take it out to my Edgepro and move the arm to the very top of the shaft, if you know what I mean, and start grinding. I have no idea what the angle is but it's shallower than 20 degrees cuz when I was microbeveling it I had to cock the knife to the side on my SM to hit the edge. I've still got some more to go because the area right before the Shroud Cutter was flat. As in not ground. So I've currently got it narrowed down there but not a 0 edge yet. The rest of the mean 1 5/8" cutting edge is sharp as hell now though. Here's my results: