Having trouble sharpening a dagger - advice please

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I am attempting to sharpen a dagger with the system and running into a couple of major problems. The dagger blade is 3/4 of an inch wide which means that each bevel is only 3/8 wide. The daggers have a fairly deep hollow grind. The two main problems I am having is that the pressure from the clamp forces the blade to either pop out the top of the clamp or the bottom. Even when I try and clamp right on the centre line it will force the blade either up or down. The other issue is that with only 3/8 of an inch from cntre to edge there is not enough of the blade above the clamp to enable me to sharpen it.

I make a lot of this style of dagger and would like to find a solution so that I can use my sharpening system to sharpen these knives.

Thanks

Steve vanderkolff

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Can you clamp it near the heel/handle like this?

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(Probably want to tape yours first…)

(From this thread)… Old Gerber dagger – Wicked Edge Precision Knife Sharpener

Just angle it up so the edge is approximately parallel to the top of the clamp.

p.s. Ignore all the grinding on my example…it was a beater knife. :slight_smile:

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Another option… Tormek’s small knife jig…

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I like the small knife jig. Where can you get one, or can you show us the componemt parts so we can make one?

Thanks

Steve

 

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The Tormek Small Knife Jig is available from several vendors. I bought mine from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sharpener-Tormek-SVM-00-Pocketknives-Damaging/dp/B00CD7X1OA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480957657&sr=8-1&keywords=tormek+small+knife+jig