50mm(2") wide stones for guided sharpeners

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sKnight

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Hello,
I have some 2 inch wide stones that I am thinking of mounting on a aluminium blank and using on a guided sharpening system (Hapstone RS).
Has anyone tried using such a wide stone before? Would it perhaps not be well secured in the holder?
 
Not only is the holder not designed for such a weight, it seems somewhere between pointless and counterproductive, even if it would work.

When you're sharpening freehand, there may not be much of the stone in contact with the edge at any one time, but a larger stone will stay put better, and make it easy to use the whole width by moving things around.

All of those advantages evaporate when you're moving the stone with a guide rod, and I'd think the weight, and the lowered visibility, would make it much easier to use too much pressure and make mistakes at tricky areas like the tip.
 
Too wide, too thick, and too heavy. Yes they kind of work but are unwieldy compared to 1x6 or 1x4 stones.
 
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