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Not that it matters but ...... my father taught me to sharpen pocket knives when I was 14 or so. To the point where I could shave hair on my leg. Using Arkansas stones and I have been doing that all...

Having never used a jig to sharpen anything I can only speculate. What I think about, to draw an analogy, is free weights versus a smith machine, or something like that. Where on the one hand you...

IIRC it was figured out that optimum angle, depending on the width of the blade, is between 15 and 17 degrees, thereabouts.

There was another long thread on honing razors on a commercially made...