2”x6“ CGSW stone on Tsprof?

[huntyukon]

Hey Guys,
Has anyone tried to mount a 2”x6”stone (like CGSW, for example) on the Tsprof Kadett pro stone holder? Just curious as to what you guys think about that. I think it might be too unbalanced, but you never know. Thanks

 

[Grasshopperglock]

As long as the wedge shape works. Which is a stretch for it not to fit.

The stone holder is an inch wide. Matches the 1" stone.

A half inch stick out on both sides shouldn't effect anything.


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That's really wide stone. For long blades with at least 2.5" of straight flat edge. What are you sharpening?

 

[Mr.Wizard]

I tried a 2" wide stone on the Edge Pro. Unless you are sharpening very straight edges you will wear only the middle of the stone. Even 1" wide stones wear faster in the middle.

 

[huntyukon]

Thanks for the quick response guys.

I was mainly thinking for longer kitchen knives. I was thinking that it would make re-profiling go quicker than the EP Matrix stones, yet with similar scratch pattern.
I would mainly just be trying it to play around with different type stones and see how I like which.

I never thought about the 2” dishing more than the 1” ones. Makes sense though. I just started using the Diamond Matrix and definitely like them. I only own the 950, 1700 and 4K though.

Have any of you guys tried the Jende Diamond plates in 80 and 120? They are reasonable in price and I’d only want them for the real rough work. I don’t use such coarse grits often, but once in a while zu find it handy.

Hauke

 

[Mr.Wizard]

I was mainly thinking for longer kitchen knives. I was thinking that it would make re-profiling go quicker than the EP Matrix stones, yet with similar scratch pattern.

Unless the edge is dead straight (or the stone is laterally dished by exactly the right amount) the contact patch between the blade and the stone is very small, and determined by the blade curvature, bevel width, contact pressure, and any elasticity of the steel or stone. Here a wider stone will have no impact on speed, other than by merit of simply having more surface to become glazed or blunted if the stone is prone to that and you are able to move the point of contact around to distribute wear. In the case of a guided system moving the point of contact off center can be achieved by torquing the stone arm, which can be useful to get to the plunge line on some blades, but it is not something I would recommend attempting for the entire length of the edge. Further a wider stone will require more torque to shift the contact patch all the way to the side as the lever arm is longer. It would be far easier to just dress a narrower stone more frequently.

If you do have a dead straight edge then a wider stone will create a larger contact patch. This by nature decreases the contact pressure unless you increase force proportionally. Therefore for straight edges if you have a narrow, soft stone and you would like to apply more force to make shaping faster but you cannot because the stone breaks down too quickly, a wider copy of the same stone will indeed be faster.

 

[huntyukon]

Now that you say that, it makes a lot of sense. Thank you Sir