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Sharpen a Boy Scout Knife (Medium and Fine Grit)

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Shave with a lawnmower blade! You’re gonna love this sharpener!

What happens here

For the Boy Scout knife, first ensure the 220-grit (medium) abrasive belt is installed and aligned. Set the sharpening guide to the appropriate angle (25 degrees for pocket/utility knives). Pass the knife blade through the sharpener with light pressure, alternating sides, until a burr is formed along the entire edge. The Work Sharp tool has two speeds: slow and high. For knives, the slow speed is usually sufficient. Once the burr is present, switch to the 6000-grit (fine) abrasive belt and repeat the passes to hone the edge and remove the burr. Test the knife's sharpness on paper.

Goal: Apply the same two-stage sharpening process to a Boy Scout knife, using both medium and fine grit belts, then perform a paper-cutting test.

Tools and materials

  • 220-grit Abrasive Belt
  • 6000-grit Abrasive Belt
  • Boy Scout Knife
  • Paper
  • Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener Mk.2

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look at that that's awesome this knife went from ultra dull to rock and roll let's go ahead and we're going to do the boy scout knife you guys don't need to watch me sharpen all these knives we're going to go ahead and switch out we'll pop this loose we'll switch this guy out and we're going to go back to our 220 grit our medium grit this is how quick and easy this is i gave my dad one of these and he is in love with it he doesn't have the mark ii version um but i might get him that too he loves it he's been using an old grinder to sharpen his butcher knives okay again we're going to draw this knife through we've got it on 25 degree look at this blade it's it's not sharp guys not sharp at all and you can't see hardly any reflection off this this thing will hopefully be cut and paper in just a minute we're going to go ahead and we're going to draw the knife through and again this has two speeds a slow speed and a high speed you can hear that we'll be using the high speed when we're taking a lot of material off of these lawn mower blades wow nice okay paper test here goes a paper test oh yeah baby this thing is super sharp here goes one more yeah it's sharp awesome now onward and upward we're gonna move on to our mower blades before it starts raining on us we're getting ready to get a rainstorm we've got our vise right here and the first thing we're going to do is clean up our blade a little bit so we're going to make a bit of a mess i'm going to take a sanding sponge

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