>>364738>The variations in angle will allow for more material to run across the blade before significant reduction in sharpness is noted.No, while a mechanically sharpened knife compared to one sharpened free hand by someone _skilled_ in knife sharpening
is a case of splitting hairs, as you wouldn't be able to tell the difference simply by using them, if you were to set up a controlled
scientific experiment comparing the two, the mechanically sharpened knife will cut more material and do so better because the
edge is uniform all the way across the blade.
A hand sharpened knife will require more effort to cut the same quantity of material, as the edge is variable due to the inability
of a human hand to duplicate the precise angles of a mechanical tool and thus, some parts of the blade will be doing more cutting
while others will be doing less.
tl;dr a mechanically sharpened knife will be better every time.
