I have been sharpening my knives an friends knives using the KME system for approximately 9 months now. Ive done about 65+ knives give or take ranging from small pocket knives to large 10'' kitchen knives of all types of steel. My question is how long does it take you to sharpen your blades using this system? I know it all depends on type of steel, size of blade and if it needs to be re profiled or just touched up. Just an average Im looking for to compare to my times. A quick session for me is about 40-45 minutes on like a small straight blade and like 2-3 hours on a larger knife say a 9" kitchen or K-bar style that needs to be re profiled. Is this normal or am I taking more time than needed? Also when completing with a stone I do several up strokes with the stone before going on to the next one. I usually go 4 strokes then flip, do 4 more then flip, 3 strokes flip, 3 more flip, 2 and then 1 strokes on each side going back and forth flipping side to side as I go down in number of strokes getting rid of any bur. Is this necessary to do so many or could I just do like 3-4 up strokes on each side and call it good?