HOW TO - Sharpen a Machete out in the field

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Here I show you how I keep my machete really sharp when I´m out in the field and how you can maintain the edge with very little and inexpensive gear!

Have fun!!

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hello and welcome to a new episode of the survivor soon identity my name is Mike and today I want to show you how I sharpen my machete out in the field to sharpen a machete out in the field one of the best tools you can use this either a file or in my case I use one of those those are regular very fine grit silica which means silicon carbide silicon carbide sharpening stones they are regularly sold for a gardening tools and you find them in your local hardware store within the gardening area but now I want to show you how you can use one of those to sharpen your machete that's my machete the 18-inch Tramontina great tool by the way and all you're gonna do is take your sharpening stone lay the machete on top of your knee I'd run the stone all along the edge maybe you can see it this way better what is important well first of all get it a bit wet or in this case a bit of slow on it this just prevents that the stone doesn't get stick full of the metal pieces and full of the metal dust second thing that is very important when sharpening a machete is that you hold the angle constant in the whole length of the blade and I simply run the stone over the edge you are honing the edge as well as sharpening the edge well there are many many ways to sharpen a machete but this small stone comes in very handy because it's so fine grit it almost is finer than natural stone you can find in any River and of course the selenium carbide is harder than metal so one of the other pieces it's not far behind diamonds

so holding the angles and running the stone all along the blades if you're really sharp machete but let's take a close-up view there is the blade let's still put a big snow on it you can even spit on it doesn't matter hold the angle and make sure you flip the machete around and also sharpen from the other side all the way up to the tip the tip is a bit tricky to sharpen because you can either twist the blade towards you or follow the tip part with your grinding stone so you have always ninety degree and also you have to increase the angle of the stone at the tip portion but once you get used to it you end up with the really really sharp machete and it's very easy very very easy to resharpen machete out in the field with one of those stones so let's take a look I will reach up with machete bites into frozen wood

there you have it really really deep bite with the resharpened machete and you can really sharpen a machete to a point where it can shave but tell you what a machete don't need to shave you need to cut wood chop wood and to the chop right

if you want to shave your arm your beard or whatever get a razor blade not a machete but if you want you can get it to this shop so take a closer look at the blade itself clean this for you you take a closer look the edge is now home to a really good point and also did a bit of convex scene of the blade by simply changing the grinding angle while I'm grinding over the edge itself well I hope you liked the video I appreciate your comments views and support thank you very much for tuning in until next time have fun outdoor in mother nature and with joy every sharpened machete this was Mike from the survival show little teddy see ya