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Thank goodness for friends with belt sanders! I made a return visit to my friend that let me use his well equipped garage toolroom to sharpen my hawks. This time I used his belt (is it sander or grinder?) to touch up the points on the 27 throwing knives I always carry with me in the trunk of my car. I did the whole thing in about 1 1/2 hours. It usually takes about 1/2 hour per knife doing it by hand with a stone, file and sandpaper. This way I touched the 2 or 4 edges to the sander for a few seconds, ran the sander over the entire blade very lightly to get out the burrs and smooth things out. Tomorrow I'll go to my outdoor target and see if the sharpening makes a difference in the percentage of sticks. It did with the hawks. I learned something about hawk maintenance from my friend when I did the hawks, it may help someone. I've always struggled with keeping the heads tight on my hawks. My hawks are loaded with nails and screws going upward into the hawk handle under the head. These were augmented by some nails and screws going down between the handle and head from above. My friend took one look at the hawks and said "Nothing helps from the bottom of the head. Handles stay tight from the top." I then bought some small metal wedges and after securing the handle as tightly as possible I drove the wedges in from the top and haven't had one loosen up yet. I hope I've solved that problem! My friend Carl Geddes from San Diego told me his method and it sounds very good also. He said, "When I attach a handle to a hawk I coat the handle and the inside of the hawk with super glue and then pound them together and not one has come loose." Article Contributed by: Chuck Fogarty "Your traveling knife, hawk and atlatl thrower" thechuckster@webtv.net It's free, and there's no obligation. |
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