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I wasn’t quoting or rebuffing you @awsomepossum, just grinding (or rather honing) my own axe.
I’m challenging the whole 16000-Grit, Japanese, Freehand thing – ‘cos I still don’t get it.
SO MANY beginners have issues with Out-of-square, Crumbling edges, Edges rolling over, Back-bevel, No-back-bevel, Tertiary-bevel, Honing fluids, Magnetic guides… It’s endless. I too had to sort the wheat from the chaff. No-one is debunking any of this.
These problems (and remedies) are repeated frequently on Rob Cosman’s site, YouTube, other specialist woodworking sites, and here.
We’re sharpening a few chisels, some plane irons, and once in a while – a router. Perhaps a teenager starting a career in cabinet-making will find a benefit with the freehand methods and have fifty years to recoup that. I’m suggesting that if you’re a middle-aged part-time hobbyist woodworker with a few weekends here & there when the weather’s right, use a guide. There’s nothing wrong with that.