Thread: Convex Sharpening

This. It's a bit tricky to get the angle and pressure right. Practice on an old kinfe before you take to your hunting knife.

The pressure you use is what sets how much convex you are putting on the knife, and the angle between the blade and the mat determine how much the convex 'hangs over' the edge. Too much convex or angle and you are sharpening around the edge (if that makes sense) and you are actively bluntening the knife.

Youtube has some good videos on how to convex.

It can be time consuming to convex a knife that has a flat bevel. Lots easier to keep a convex knife sharp with a convex edge.

Also, if you need to touch a convex knife up in the field, you aren't going to wreck it by giving it a very light tickle with a ceramic rod. It's just as easy to carry a bit of wood with a strip of leather glued down to it, and a polish like Autosol on the leather, and use that to strop the convex edge.

One really good trick for all types of sharpening is to put vivid on the bevel, and then sharpen very gently and see where the vivid is being removed.