Sharpening with stone - How do you keep consistent angle?

[Wowbagger]

Lift your handle slightly to keep the angle consistent and keep the edge on the stone? This is perfectly consistent with using your thumb, a stack of quarters, or whatever, as a simple guide to index the height of your spine at the start of each stroke. Mathematical precision throughout the whole stroke is not the goal; consistency is. Start at the same height each stroke, practice and learn to develop a stroke that follows the curve and compensates by lifting the handle.

Yes, yes
I can sharpen by hand
I just want to see if Mr One Post ever makes a second post or if that was merely a commercial post for the vendor.
Whatayabet?

 

[maximus83]

Could be, I dunno. I link to vendors all the time trying to help folks find a solution, but I constantly link to different ones and rotate it. I don't see that linking to a vendor auto-magically makes somebody a shill for that vendor.