I ripped open the box as soon as I got home, and (as I expected), this thing fits my water stone, too. For obvious reasons, the Ultrasharp plates are an almost exact fit, hanging over on the sides maybe 1/16" or so. My water stone (which I'm kind of learning to like) is smaller in both length and width, but the base will clamp down on it. The base gets a good, firm hold on the stones and really doesn't slide. I have it sitting on a Tekmat to keep water or oil off of the dinner table, and that's working pretty well. You know, aside from all the shredded paper around me....
I'm not sure my bevels are worth photographing yet. I might post pics, but I'm kind of afraid that bikerdoc might come back to haunt me.
I've got a variety of knives to sharpen right now, stainless, S30V, 154CM, 8CrsomethingorotherMoV, so I'll probably finish on a couple of different stones. I have an Arkansas fine and a 1000 grit water stone. I feel like I should like the Arkansas stone better, but I know that part of that is just because I'm from Arkansas. The 1000 grit water stone is a Sharp Pebble 400/1000 grit water stone that I bought on Amazon at the recommendation of a friend who's a chef. Wasn't sure I'd like it at first, but the more I do this, the more I like it.
Strops . . . . My original mission in garage sale-ing last weekend was to find a belt. 5 garage sales and not one belt for sale. So I hit Goodwill, and found a belt. That was promptly claimed by Mrs. McGee, as her old belt was falling apart. So now I have Mrs. McGee's old belt, of which I've split the layers of leather for the strop. But I haven't built the strop, and I don't have any stropping compound. So if I strop at all, I'll have to improvise.