Review K02: The Microbevel King and the 2500 Rule

[RadialBladeworks]

OK, ok lets back up a bit there. I didn't read all this, and I love long posts with lots of details that I can really get into, but . . .
That whole set up (the design of this diving board being passed off as a knife sharpening jig offends my basic engineering sensibilities).
Boing, flex, bounce; are these characteristics not counter productive when our goal is a rigid fixturing of a bit of metal to be machined to a precise and critical angle ?

Here . . . at least put one of these under the bottom side of the blade near the edge so we have a hope in hell of keeping the angle by preventing those long thin clamps hanging out in space from flexing up and down.

LINK to a photo of a support (there are inexpensive versions of this out there) (heck a block of wood with a drywall screw in it would suffice).
Sure the Edge Pro is just a boring old bit of plastic without the cool machined metal parts (and I'm all about cool machined metal parts (add some wrinkle finish paint and I am getting all disgustingly wet and drippy) . . .
but at least that boring old bit of plastic supports the blade where it must be supported to create highly effective apexes. Micro bevel ? I never use them on a knife; the Edge Pro debures and produces hair whittling edges without a micro and with out a strop.

Haha I do actually specify using something like the support picture you linked. I like the way you think. I do have to give the machine credit: at virtually twenty pounds, there is no way they could increase the robustness of the rig, but I do agree that, at least for my abusively high demands, that little bit of arm flex was a fatal flaw. Like I said, it can be worked around, and there is a massive amount of advantages offered by the machine, and on the whole, I do stand by my scoring of 90% (which is pretty damn high), but overall, it was not a precise enough machine to make me consider ditching my benchstones.