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The side to side issue: the jaws of the jig are flat, square pieces of metal. A kitchen knife, for example is a flat piece of metal with an edge. So, when the jig grips the blade, everything is "square". The hunting knife, on the other hand, isn't flat on its sides...it has the convex/concave contours....so the jaws of the jig are trying to grip a curve, its difficult to get the blade 'gripped' with the edge exactly lined up with the center of the jig jaws. That results on different bevels on each side of the edge as the knife is flipped from side to side.

Virtually all of my hunting knives are not a flat piece of steel with a sharp edge. Either they are triangular from back to edge or have all sorts of concave/convex curves between the same. This makes it impossible to set any angle with the anglemaster. So I have been using the mark-a-lot to color the bevel, etc. However, it seems that if I get it set for one side, when turning it over to do the other side the bevel is not the same. It seems it's very difficult to get these sorts of blades "square" in the knife jig. Any techniques to get the knife square in the jig? And although you can set the bevel with the marker, I can't see how you can get the bevel to an exact set angle, particularly if you know what angle that a knife is supposed to have. Any help there?