Broad Head Sharpening

[M.E.B.]

I’ve been doing this for 47 yrs. I hate sharpening broadheads.

I’ve had several people over the years tell me that they can sharpen a head “hair popping sharp” in less than five minutes. But they have never been able to prove it.

Here’s my easy and fast method that I’ve used for the last 3 years.

Get a KME. Mount your broad head. Run a Sharpie marker down the edge.

Put that sucker on a belt sander with a fine grit belt. Hold it there until the Sharpie mark is gone.

Finish on crock sticks.

And this also works great on shot and slightly damaged edges.

After LOTS of broad heads I had to replace the part of the KME that touches the belt. $17 if I remember correctly.

This is fast.

[BillyJack1975]

Sounds like a good way of doing it. I’m still trying to fine tune my single bevel broadhead sharpening methods.

[LeanMachine]

Does the sanding belt not wear down the kme roller? I was thinking about doing the same thing. I even considered building a tilt mechanism that just mounts the kme to the sander. No need for the roller. My only complaint with the kme is is will not go flat enough to match factory grind on my iron will heads.

If you buy the diamond stones that kme sells, it is effortless to resharpen heads. The sander will win if you really bang one up and need to reprofile the edge. I used sandpaper on a piece of granite for years. The diamond stones are vastly superior, but not cheap. They just do not get dull and remove material very efficiently.

[M.E.B.]

Does the sanding belt not wear down the kme roller? I was thinking about doing the same thing. I even considered building a tilt mechanism that just mounts the kme to the sander. No need for the roller. My only complaint with the kme is is will not go flat enough to match factory grind on my iron will heads.

If you buy the diamond stones that kme sells, it is effortless to resharpen heads. The sander will win if you really bang one up and need to reprofile the edge. I used sandpaper on a piece of granite for years. The diamond stones are vastly superior, but not cheap. They just do not get dull and remove material very efficiently.

I had to replace the roller part after a LOTof heads. $17

[DRT]

I’ve been doing this for 47 yrs. I hate sharpening broadheads.



I’ve had several people over the years tell me that they can sharpen a head “hair popping sharp” in less than five minutes. But they have never been able to prove it.



Here’s my easy and fast method that I’ve used for the last 3 years.



Get a KME. Mount your broad head. Run a Sharpie marker down the edge.



Put that sucker on a belt sander with a fine grit belt. Hold it there until the Sharpie mark is gone.



Finish on crock sticks.



And this also works great on shot and slightly damaged edges.



After LOTS of broad heads I had to replace the part of the KME that touches the belt. $17 if I remember correctly.



This is fast.

Is that gonna be in your pack on a back country hunt? Great if you only hunt behind the house. Or if you only use screw in heads you can just swap out on an arrow. Glue on heads on wood arrows though may need to be touched up, or more, in the field.

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[M.E.B.]

Is that gonna be in your pack on a back country hunt? Great if you only hunt behind the house. Or if you only use screw in heads you can just swap out on an arrow. Glue on heads on wood arrows though may need to be touched up, or more, in the field.

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That is fact. But most people can sharpen arrows at home this way fast and easily.

It does not mean that you can’t have another means to do so someplace else.

[DRT]

That is fact. But most people can sharpen arrows at home this way fast and easily.



It does not mean that you can’t have another means to do so someplace else.

I agree. That's why I need to find some of the compounding stuff he had and eat some frosted flakes.[emoji41]
I use a diamond stone at home but as said it is slow. And I touch them up with another old piece I have. I get them shaving sharp, but not that scary shaving sharp. Where the hair jumps off before the blade touches it.
Hoping this will give me that little extra edge.

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