I think the Vise would appeal to professional sharpeners. I have no idea how many blades they do a day. If they take 10 minutes to sharpen a blade maybe 50 a day?
If they work 250 days a year that would be 12,500 a year. If you expect the devise to hold up 5 years that would be 62,500 cycles.
If you hired someone at minimum wage and they clamped and released a blade every 4 seconds that would be 15 cycles a minute. So to get 62,500 cycles it would take about 10 days work.
These are all uneducated estimates and may not be close to what is correct
And, on the low end…. if I did three blades a week (a little above my average) that would be 150 blades a year for 5 years would be 750 cycles.
That’s quite a range. And, if it’s built to last 5+ years for Tuffy, Josh, Clay, Bob, Mark, Kyle, etc. it is going to easily last for me….
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