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Picks - Should You Sharpen Them Or Not?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Lex Winter" data-source="post: 591149" data-attributes="member: 20140"><p>Most picks are cheap Chinese crap, I highly doubt they have been heat treated and hardened.</p><p></p><p>Although to OP; you may want to figure that out. See how a file runs across it. If it bites in - well, sharpen it with the file, then case harden the edges of it and sharpen it up like you would an axe. If it skips over it, then it's either made of a higher grade steel than I've ever seen or would expect and still probably not heat treated because I literally just do not think Chinese factories give two hoots about making things properly enough to do that. So then sharpen it like you would and axe and add liberal amounts of water (JUST in case you've got the only pick on earth that's properly hardened).</p><p></p><p>If you want to know how to case harden it look up Clickspring on YouTube he has some good videos on making tools at home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr Lex Winter, post: 591149, member: 20140"] Most picks are cheap Chinese crap, I highly doubt they have been heat treated and hardened. Although to OP; you may want to figure that out. See how a file runs across it. If it bites in - well, sharpen it with the file, then case harden the edges of it and sharpen it up like you would an axe. If it skips over it, then it's either made of a higher grade steel than I've ever seen or would expect and still probably not heat treated because I literally just do not think Chinese factories give two hoots about making things properly enough to do that. So then sharpen it like you would and axe and add liberal amounts of water (JUST in case you've got the only pick on earth that's properly hardened). If you want to know how to case harden it look up Clickspring on YouTube he has some good videos on making tools at home. [/QUOTE]
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