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Tracker0721:
It sounds like a bad idea but I test mine how quite a few guys do, with almost no pressure on the point drag it across your skin below your thumb. How much pressure exactly? Pop off a nice flake and drag that sharp edge across without cutting your thumb off. You'll see it takes hardly any pressure to break skin which is all you're doing. Stringman gave me the best sharpening advice. Take a bunch of slightly spaced out flakes down each edge making sure you don't crush the edge when the flake pops, then extremely lightly abrade the tips you left and flip the point over and pop off each tip. If done correctly the fine edge that was at the bottom of each flake you took off will be the edge on the tips of your serrations. When I do it right just a light no pressure pull will cut me good enough that I'll stop before pulling the whole point. You just want it to make a clean cut like a paper cut through your skin. No blood. Picture is to show where I tested one a couple days ago. If my point doesn't give me 2 paper cuts I pop off the tips again. No point gets mounted that can't cut like a razor.

Tracker0721:
Thumb zone. The barely seen horizontal red line. No big gashes

Chippintuff:
Your points are sharper than you think. put a piece of leather down; take one of the points and wrap a piece of leather around it to get a good grip; then drag the edge across a piece of leather. It will cut better than you might think.

Tracker is right. Some argue that a point is not sharp except on the tips of serrations. They have not learned how to do it the sharpest way.

WA

JoJoDapyro:
When testing the edge on a razor you pull it across your thumb nail. If it glides, it isn't sharp. Look up what a sharp knife looks lie under magnification.

GlisGlis:
Thanks Tracker I have to try that.
It was quite a while I was thinking to make the exact same post Sleek did.
I think that making a razor edge is also facilitated when your whole point is flat.
I'm I wrong? is it still possible to have good sharpened edge even on pretty fat points?

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