I use the Accu Sharp as well. A gentle touch helps keep it from removing too much metal. If I want to shave with the blade I give it a few strokes with a steel or a diamond hone afterwards. I see no need for an electric sharpener, the manufacturers come up with some new gimick like that annually for those who cannot sharpen knives. I would be done sharpening by the time you got something like that set up. To each their own though.