Here’s a valuable tool that my buddy Pete put me on to. Blades that I used to throw away because they were rolled over, now can be salvaged thanks to a bastard mill file.
These files only have serrations going one way so that it actually puts a preliminary edge on a badly damaged blade if you file in one direction only, it doesn’t just eat away the steel and keeps dulling things down.
Here is a close-up of a Slick Trick blade that I shot through a doe last year and into the dirt where it must have found a stone. You can see where the edge is rolled over and a normal sharpening stone is worthless when trying to do such rough edge work.
You can also see the striations of the file going in one direction only. Other files have a cross-hatch pattern which is what you don’t want to use for salvaging damaged broadhead blades.
