I don’t use my knife cause I don’t want to send it in for sharpening…..

So is that you, its easy, just do it. But you dont want to mess it up....well you will the first couple times but with a good stone from DMT you cant go wrong. As for the degrees.....do you even know degrees? I showed you the general, you will feel it, with expense which will come, very quickly. The human hand unlike your feet, are very connected and learn skills like this very quickly with practice. You can almost become a machine