trouble with my gransfors

BarberFobic1992

BarberFobic1992

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okay, after seeing briangandrews posts about his really sharp gransfors slicing through his sheath i realized how dull mine is. i have been trying to sharpen it but to no avail. my tools are limited though. i only have the gransfors axe stone, some convex sharpeners and a strop. is is possible to get it decently sharp with these tools or should i look into getting some more equiptment?

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I don't know what you mean by "convex sharpeners" but I think you have everything you need. Doing it by hand is just a matter of spending more time.

I use a 1x42" belt sander on mine, and unless I do something stupid (which I have done plenty of times) leather belts and compound are all I need. Unfortunately, I have had to bring out the gritted belts on mine more than once....but I don't want to get into that :)

I don't have one of those gransfors stones, so I don't know how coarse it is. But, I am guess that you probably only need the finest side of it. Sharpen in circular motions. Depending on how smooth it is, I would move to finer grits of sandpaper, and end up on a leather strop.

Depending on what the edge is like, you could possibly get away with just the strop, or just high grit sand paper and then strop, etc. Only the person with the axe in hand can tell.

Of course, you are always welcome to ship it to me and I can ship it back out the next day.

For what it is worth, my "Field Kit" is two waterstones 1000 grit and 4000 grit, and a leather strop loaded with compound. It works great. However, if I can keep for sharpening in the field I will because I know it will only take me 30 seconds when I get back home, and I would rather enjoy the woods doing other stuff.
 
yea , probably. and since the metal is so hard it probably just takes alot more tome than i am used to with some of my softer metaled axes.
 
still no success with that method, which i tried for a while. i am going to go and see if a sanding block will facilitate things
 
It sounds like you had to step it back to the sandpaper to get it where you want. Just remember, you can easily spend a significant amount of time on the strops and compounds now, but the higher polished things are, the better off it will be.

It is an easy tendency to get it where you want, and then stop.

I am GLAD that you got it yourself. Because, even if you sent it to me, it was going to get dull again :D It is best to know how to do it yourself than having to rely on someone else.

I find it best to just get it some attention after a significant amount of use. Even if doesn't seem like it needs it. That way, you really only spend a few minutes on it. It is much better than waiting until it gets to a point that you have to spend a lot of time on it to get it back to where it was.

So.....where are the pics? :D
 
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