[jimmontg]

I still use an angle grinder for profiling and starting my bevel. I also hold the sharpening stone in my left hand and sharpen knives that way as that is the way I learned. Also easier to keep the point on my blade. I do my plunge lines with the angle grinder and I do OK. Made an Arkansas toothpick out of 1/4 1084 that way. Finished on a 1x42 belt sander and by hand with sandpaper taped to a piece of 10x1.5 Dymondwood. Didn't take as long as you might think. But I've been grinding with an angle grinder since the 70s when they first came out with the 4 1/2" size, before that we used the big ole Milwaukee grinder and that heavy thing would tucker you out.