Slower burn hits different when you catch the corner kids mirror the cops.

Disagree on the stone being the reason that knife lasted. Your grandpa's knife survived because he used it to open letters and cut string, not because whetstones are magic. A $15 stone will absolutely wreck a blade just as fast as an electric one if you hold the wrong angle every time you touch it up. Freehand takes months of ruining cheap knives before you stop making things worse, and most people quit way before that. The electric sharpener gets blamed for eating your chef's knife, but a chef's knife used hard for two years gets thin no matter what you sharpen it with.

@the_susan he just said I used cheap glue, never answered why his own test bindings fell apart.