I am stoked you are checking out my edge thread ban. I love your mods and have just gotten started doing some of my own. I am losing the battle with not buying the edge pro. The Lansky really helped me understand edges. I was in my 50th hour of sharpening when I had an almost religious experience where I realized that
polishing and sharpening where the exact same thing but on different parts of the blade. It hot me that you remove just the tiniest amount of steel to make the knife's real potential visible just like Michelangelo did with marble.
Reading about hybrid polishing of katanas helped as well.

I bought an old SH-E user with the intent of giving it the best edge and finish I can over the winter. We have long boring winters in Saskatchewan so it helps to have a project.

Freehand or with a belt sander is great ,makes a sharp edge and is way quicker but I really like how nice and even the edges look with a clamp system. Now that I am finished my HC the edge looks just as straight as before but is about twice as wide as on my other untouched HC. It took a long bloody time though.