I no longer sharpen my tools.
Many years ago I started out with a record power white wheel 8" grinder and a bowl of water for cooling or more often knocking off the bench to soak my feet. It worked quite well, I made a plywood stand for it so when on the bench it was a good height for me to see what I was doing, and as long as I concentrated it made a good job of keeping the tools sharp and also shortening them quite quickly if I ever lost concentration and had to rebuild my edge!
Then I got a lump of money, and was seduced into the world of jigs and Tormek removed some of the concentration and gave a very sharp tool with minimal loss of length. Problem with it is it needs setting up and stripping down so if I am out doing flat work and just want to turn a drawer knob but my spindle gouge is blunt I could do it freehand in moments on the record, or set up the Tormek and do it on that with jigs.
Then quite a while later I got seduced again by the Sorby ProEdge always ready, just flick the switch and away you go like the record power, but with the option of jigs and a fast positionable table like the Tormek, and the option at extra money of a diamond belt...
I didn't need it, BUT it was shiny, and at a tool show, and I played with it... So obviously I bought one! now I don't sharpen any tools any more, I simply polish the edge frequently so I don't have any tools that need sharpening as they all always are sharp. I have to say of all the shiny things that have led me astray in life, the ProEdge is one of the most useful ones.