I know how I shall construct a sharpening tool that have a extream precision - but I so not think that it is a market for it
I can build a tool today that have a precision on 1/100 part of 1 degree - and the angle can be repeated for maintanence.
I think that I can build a tool that have precsision 1/1000 part of 1 degree, also repeated for maintanence. But I cant se a market for that tool, it will be expensive...
To meassure a edge in the tool woth 1/100 parts of 1 degree, with the same precission, are easy to do. It will take some seconds to asjust to the correct degree, but finer adjustmens down 1/100 parts of 1 degree will take 1-2 minutes.
My tool Chef can today, with the naked eye, be adjusted down to 0,25 degrees precision, with extra equipment down to 0,10 degrees - and from a made angle on the edge It is possible to adjust the edge to 1/100 part of 1 degree steeper angle - and then go between those two angles and hit there surfaces perfect.
The problem is the sharpeners thickness (but I have a aolution for that also - but not with the perfect precision as the tool have). If the sharpener are 1/100 part of 1 millimeter thicker, ot thinner - it will give a wrong angle on the edge...
So, to build the tool are not a big problem - to have different sharpeners with different grits in the exactly the sane thicknes and be able to go with finer and finer grit - that is the problem...
No sharpener producer have that precision in thicknes...
So, the solution is to be able to meaasure the thicknes of the sharpener and then adjust the tool dor the thickness - and then adjust to the new wanted angle...
I work on that this sins some years back just becouse I like to be able to do it, and as I say above, I do not think that it is any market for this high precision.
To be able to get an edge really sharp I must have 100 % control of the cutting edge and its sides - and also have full control of the grit I end up the sharpening process with - at least in my mind
Yes, I know I am a nerd. I have been very thick and so also my wife. We have both cancer and othe sicnessess - so I have, when I could, focus on precision on sharpening tools just for the fun if it
Thomas