Question for you folks who know a lot more about sharpening than I do. Have any of you tried using a flat jig to hold sand paper and instead of moving the knife back and forth on the stone, clamping the blade and thinning / polishing the large flats with sand paper and a flat jig? I use this technique when hand sanding knives and it works incredibly well. It also allows you to keep crisp lines on bevels. In my limited experience, I find the level of control using this method is far more precise than moving the entire blade over a stone, which A: can dish, and B: one small movement of my hands and I could roll into the edge of the bevel on the shindig. I'm hoping this makes sense.
Any thoughts to this method, has anyone tried it?
Here's a video that showcases what I'm trying to describe, skip to 10:43. Obviously this guy made a really fancy one, I use something way more basic.
