How often should you change you Spikes

[Mick Dempsey]

If you can't handle a flat file then how on earth are you going to change your shearbars...?

Ty

 

Have you done it yet?

 

No, I'm on me 'olidays.

[Mesterh]

You should keep changing them until they turn into a pair of distel geckos.

 

As for the gaffs, it's easy to cock them up, just sharpen a few times and when you've destroyed then buy a new set of gaffs.

[Peter]

I bought mine in 1999, still on the original gaffs, just changed the top pads. I like to sharpen little and often.

[WoodMouse]

Yes, never. You may want to replace the gaffs periodically. Or not.

I changed mine when I tried to sharpen them with a flat file and ruined them.

 

That was my question, anyone sharpen theirs?

[Mick Dempsey]

Very very lightly with a flat file, if you take off too much you'll change the length/angle and they'll be useless. I have done it successfully, I should do mine again soon coincidentally, not been done in a decade.

[WoodMouse]

Very very lightly with a flat file, if you take off too much you'll change the length/angle and they'll be useless. I have done it successfully, I should do mine again soon coincidentally, not been done in a decade.

 

thanks

[Billy]

Sharpen them when they're blunt, only really happens if you walk about with them on. Easy enough to touch up with a grinder or file.