How to Sharpen AFFLICTOR FIXED BLADE broadheads!

Up next, how to sharpen the K2 Fixed and the Fixed EXT. Stay tuned. So today we're going to talk about the easiest way to sharpen the Afflictor Fixed Blade Broadheads. And it's not complicated, especially if you have the right tools. It's actually quite simple, and there's several ways you can do this. But first and most importantly is you are going to have to take the broadhead apart. If you absolutely don't want to do that, and you just need some really, really light fine tuning, you can do that by hand if you want, just by holding the broadhead or having it on a shaft using an Arkansas stone or a micro diamond file. That would be kind of like a worst case scenario. It's effective, it'll work, but it's really hard to be consistent. So we really recommend using some type of guide. You know, Lansky and some other brands are out there very good. We really like the Stay Sharp guides. They are so simple, so easy, and they're versatile because it's going to give you a couple options. And I'm going to talk about those options with you as far as sharpening our fixed blades. So the first thing you'll want to do is take your fixed blade apart. So there are two head screws on the fixed blade. They take a triple zero Phillips. Just pop those out, grab the main blades, slide everything forward, and you'll be able to disassemble the tip, pull the main blade out, and then slide the secondary blade out through the side of a ferrule. We have almost a four locking system here, so it's very secure, but it will come apart pretty easily if you're having some trouble. Just take a pair of needle nose pliers or some other pliers and just gently grab the side of the blade away from the edge and give it a little wiggle and it'll come right apart for you. Once you have that apart, you're going to want to secure that into whatever sharpening system you plan on using. Again, we really like the Stay Sharp because there's a couple options here that are really kind of unique. So first of all, if you go ahead and use their replacement blade guide, the black standard guide, this will go ahead and put the exact angle on as you have currently on your fixed blade. Now you may have to adjust the rollers on your guide, which is really easy to do. So in order sometimes to increase this angle, so what I'm talking about is if I'm doing this and I'm only sharpening maybe down here at the very bottom and I want to increase this angle to get the entire blade, you just take some tape. You can take one inch masking tape and just roll it on the roller and you can get that angle exact for what you need for your fixed blade broadheads for a flictor. Now you can also adjust that by moving the blade back and forth in the guide as well. If you look at our last sharpening video, we talked about marking this surface with a black magic marker and then after just one or two strokes, you'll be able to quickly see if you're getting the surface coverage that you want. If you want to do this entire angle. Now that being said, that is a great way to sharpen and stay consistent on the blade angle for the afflictor fixed blades. However, if you want to do a secondary angle, maybe you're thinking that provides higher edge retention or you don't want to put tape on your rollers and you have the gray guide, which is designed for, you know, not really designed for this specifically, I would say, but it really works great. You will see that it has a much steeper angle on this blade and you can actually put a secondary angle across that blade. It's not going to hurt a thing. As long as you have sharpened properly both sides, making sure you get a burr each time and then finishing up on a real lighter grade paper or a lighter grade diamond plate. That way you're sure that you're getting it razor sharp and you can knock that burr off at the end on a strop or on a piece of cardboard with some buffing compound on it. So as far as using this system, it's really simple. You can use either one of the guides, adjust this one so your angle is continuous and you are just very gently with no oil, no water, anything on these diamond plates. These are the ones that are supplied by Stay Sharp. I love these. They're great. There's no must. There's no fuss. You just wipe them off when you're done. They last a long time and you're just going to go ahead with this back and forth straight motion until you've achieved a burr and you're going to roll it over. You're going to do the same thing on the other side until you achieve the burr and you're satisfied and then you can go ahead and go up and grit and then that way you're slowly getting it as sharp as it can possibly be with your final step of deburring and you're ready to go. If you are going to put a little secondary angle on this blade, that's fine too. You can do that with any broadhead. Don't don't anybody tell you have to have the exact angle that that broadhead came with. As long as it's sharp, you shouldn't be impeding anything. So you want to make sure that with this angle you're doing the same thing. You're starting with your heavier grits. You're going to give it just several passes so you've achieved that burr. You're going to roll it over. You're going to knock that burr off. Achieve a burr on that side. When you're satisfied, you're going to move up and grit on that as well and you can go all the way up as high as you want. If I'm moving to paper, I'm going to finish with a 2500 grit and then after that I'm going to go to some buffing compound on a piece of cereal box or cardboard just with a nice little pull back to knock off that final burr and you are going to have a razor sharp broadhead ready to go back in action. Be careful when you're reassembling that you don't cut yourself. You want to be sure that you're handling the large portion, keeping the sharp edge between your fingers and away from you as you slide things back down into the ferrule and get your assembly just right to get ready for the hunt. So I hope those tips were helpful for you. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up and ask us any questions below that you want. Thanks for watching.