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Offline A7X

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Re: HOW TO Sharpen your auger blades at home
« Reply #30 on: Feb 07, 2015, 11:06 PM »
Great read, TY for sharing i have been googling this for 2 years now and i was almost excited when you said you would be writing this.. Ive it wouldnt be to much to ask, could ya put together a step by step with the Lazer blades, i think i have to completely wrong stones for doing it..

Just popped back in here, didn't realize there was a couple more posts... If I get my hands on a set of lazer blades I will do it in one of my "reserved" posts at the top of this thread... Honestly if you have the stones ;D you can flip them on their side sandwiched between some 3/4" lumber and run the blades that way following the steps I presented... Most stones are 3/8" thick and with the correct motion will work the blades nicely...

Those Chinese blades I did for my buddy are ridiculously sharp and cutting ice amazing... I told him to get a set of Swedish blades and keep the Chinese blades as spares though for when I'm sharpening the swedes...

I just got myself a set of Swedish mora blades for my old 8" jiffy hand auger that a member on here was nice enough to give to me, I also made an adapter for my dewalt drill... I drilled 7 holes today on one old (2007yr) battery with no signs of slowing down it was nice not cranking today  :tipup:

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #31 on: Jul 23, 2015, 05:08 PM »
Anyone trying this in the off season? Figured I'd pop in to see if there were any questions...

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #32 on: Jan 13, 2016, 09:47 AM »
This is an amazing thread and very accurate. Can't wait to try it.



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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #33 on: Jan 13, 2016, 10:44 AM »
My 8" Mora Ice blades are proving very difficult to sharpen. They are curved so I can't get parts of the edge to lie flat on the stone. I don't know the solution.



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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #34 on: Jan 13, 2016, 11:08 AM »
My 8" Mora Ice blades are proving very difficult to sharpen. They are curved so I can't get parts of the edge to lie flat on the stone. I don't know the solution.

The same way you would sharpen the curved part of a knife blade..

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #35 on: Jan 13, 2016, 11:09 AM »
The same way you would sharpen the curved part of a knife blade..

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It's curved in the opposite direction though forming a rainbow type arch.



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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #36 on: Jan 13, 2016, 11:16 AM »
It's curved in the opposite direction though forming a rainbow type arch.

Then you are trying to sharpen lazer blades, not mora blades... Reread this thread about trying to sharpen the lazers.. They are the *****s of augers blades to sharpen,

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #37 on: Jan 13, 2016, 11:20 AM »
Then you are trying to sharpen lazer blades, not mora blades... Reread this thread about trying to sharpen the lazers.. They are the *****s of augers blades to sharpen,

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Gotcha. Looks like I'll be sending them off lol



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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #38 on: Jan 13, 2016, 12:15 PM »
A7X, my hunch is you're a woodworker also, I use pretty much the same techniques in sharpening my hand tools. ;)  Very nice article.

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #39 on: Jan 13, 2016, 12:34 PM »
Great article!  thx for posting
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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #40 on: Jan 13, 2016, 07:15 PM »
Gotcha. Looks like I'll be sending them off lol

You need a thinner set of stones can't use the wide stones... Definitely doable at home...

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #41 on: Jan 13, 2016, 07:22 PM »
A7X, my hunch is you're a woodworker also, I use pretty much the same techniques in sharpening my hand tools. ;)  Very nice article.

Why yes I am! That's where I've spent most of my life... I do many things but woodworking is one of my faves...

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #42 on: Jan 14, 2016, 05:47 PM »
Thanks for the info, I'm going to try doing my spare hand auger myself. If I still have them, I'm going to try and post a pic of two sets of blades I dropped off at a bait shop last year at a bait shop, got charged $35, and they were ground down to nothing, useless, had to get new ones. You'll get a good laugh.

A7X, have you ever used a wheel? Years ago I had a guy that would put a concave edge on my blades, I think he had a wheel and a jig. I forget if it made much of a difference though, just curious.

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #43 on: Jan 16, 2016, 12:52 AM »
This is a very informative post so I set it sticky. Enjoy !!!

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #44 on: Jan 16, 2016, 05:08 AM »
 Thank you. I've often wondered why this was never a sticky in the past.   This is a great post with a lot of useful information. Thank you to all
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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #45 on: Jan 16, 2016, 11:16 AM »
Has anybody tried sharpening the chipper blades for a power auger using this method yet?

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #46 on: Jan 16, 2016, 11:37 AM »
Has anybody tried sharpening the chipper blades for a power auger using this method yet?

Same theory applies... Just pretend the grooves aren't there...

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #47 on: Jan 16, 2016, 05:45 PM »
Same theory applies... Just pretend the grooves aren't there...

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Thanks.
That is what I was thinking, yet wanted to make sure. I have that goofy Jiffy model 50 where the rotation is backwards compared to the other Jiffy augers and the blades are tough to find.

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #48 on: Jan 17, 2016, 07:15 AM »
Can anyone recommend a set of 3 stones that I could maybe flip on its side to use the narrow edge to sharpen my set of concave lazer blades?



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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #49 on: Jan 17, 2016, 10:27 AM »
The best thing to sharpen Lazer style blades would be a jar, PVC tube, or the right sized pipe/cylinder... Tape the appropriate grit to it and do it... You can buy sandpaper in any grit you can buy stones...

I would not try anything with a flat edge on lazer blades, it can be done but it would be better to use something round..

Just my thoughts on lazers..

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #50 on: Jan 17, 2016, 11:03 AM »
Can anyone recommend a set of 3 stones that I could maybe flip on its side to use the narrow edge to sharpen my set of concave lazer blades?

See post #14 in this thread. .. I explain a few options for blades with a radius

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #51 on: Jan 17, 2016, 11:27 AM »
See post #14 in this thread. .. I explain a few options for blades with a radius

Thanks, don't know how I missed that. I just dropped my blades off to be sharpened for now. I'm going to practice in the offseason but I'll be using your advice. Thanks again.



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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #52 on: Jan 24, 2016, 12:11 PM »
Post is updated on first page for power auger chipper blades  ;D :tipup:

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #53 on: Jan 24, 2016, 06:22 PM »
A7x, not to stray off topic  but can those electric fillet knife blades be sharpened? I just ordered new replacement 6 in. for my rapala electric knife but wondering if serrated blades can be sharpened. 

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #54 on: Jan 24, 2016, 08:47 PM »
A7x, not to stray off topic  but can those electric fillet knife blades be sharpened? I just ordered new replacement 6 in. for my rapala electric knife but wondering if serrated blades can be sharpened.

Yes they can be done, I wouldn't want to do them... If they were mine I would... but if a friend came to me with em I think I'd tell em how to do it haha!...

I've done a bunch of serrated edges. .. Mostly pocket knives, I wouldn't really want to do what you're talking about or a bread knife etc... like a full blade length of serrations... I don't mind 5 or 6 serrations on a pocket knife though. ..

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #55 on: Jan 25, 2016, 05:37 PM »
yeah i read you, I guess after several seasons using the fillet serrated cutting through bone I decided to order new set for about 10.00 dollars.. i will see if i can fine tune the old ones first with a v knife sharpener tool,, ty for honest reply!

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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #56 on: Jan 31, 2016, 11:44 AM »
Total waste of time! Just buy one of these:

https://www.thorvie.com/product/av-41-ice-auger-blade-sharpener/
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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #57 on: Jan 31, 2016, 11:47 AM »
Holy smokes that thing is cool. Cheap too!



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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #58 on: Jan 31, 2016, 12:20 PM »
Total waste of time! Just buy one of these:

https://www.thorvie.com/product/av-41-ice-auger-blade-sharpener/
If I buy new blades every year until I am too old to go Ice fishing anymore. I will save myself about  $1415 if I don't buy that thing. Or $939 if I can still go until I am 90 Years old. I like sharpening my own.
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Re: Sharpen your auger blades at home!!
« Reply #59 on: Feb 01, 2016, 01:20 PM »
Total waste of time! Just buy one of these:

https://www.thorvie.com/product/av-41-ice-auger-blade-sharpener/

Obviously you didn't read the article :facepalm: do you have one of those?

 



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