Cant figure out how to sharpen a Tanto Blade

[That Sharpening Guy]

I cant figure out how to sharpen a tanto blade. Is there any video out there that demonstrates how to do this on the tormek?? Please help!!

Thanks!!

[Rob]

You'll be wanting Herman to give you the solution to that one.  He'll be along presently.  He has gone some considerable distance in understanding and developing systems to sharpen short bladed knives.

[Herman Trivilino]

Small knives can be sharpened with the new SVM-00:

http://tormek.com/international/en/grinding-jigs/svm-00-small-knife-holder/

It requires that you also have the SVM-45 knife jig.

You can also fashion a homemade jig like I did here:

http://forum.tormek.com/index.php?topic=1592.msg6634#msg6634

[jeff.irick65]

Has anyone tried the SVS-50 on a tanto blade?

[grepper]

What is giving you difficulty?  The tip?  Got a picture of it?

[Stickan]

Hi,
I am meeting a guy next week who sells those knifes. I will get back to you with a suggestion on how to do it, I've done it some time ago and I know I used 2 jigs but not witch two :-)
Tanto knives has different angles out from the knife-blade and can be tricky. Using SVS-50 will need the blade to rest on its bevel and I would not do that.
Next Friday I will know!

Have a nice weekend!
Stig

[Stickan]

Hi,
I got 2 new EKA tactical knifes with Tanto blades to learn how to sharpen this kind of knives and after trying both SVS-50 and SE-76 I figured out that on these specific knifes, the blade is to short to get the right protrusion so I ended up using the SVM-45 knife jig.
First I sharpened the smaller edge/tanto edge at both sides and clamped the jig parallel to the edge and close to the edge.
Then I sharpened the blade edge and got a perfect result after trying it 2 times. I was paying attention so I got the meeting point at the edges to get really good and I I got it 100% correct.
So, You can sharpen it with the SVM-45 but you need to clamp it twice and check the angle twice.
However, there are some Tanto knifes on the market with slightly curved edges and I have not tried sharpening those but I cant see no reason that there will be a problem with getting a good result on them as well.

Stig