Artaunon help!

I recently bought an Artaunon stone from hatzicho

https://shop.strato.de/epages/80014...R&FacetRange_ListPrice=&FacetRange_ListPrice=

Anyone whom has used this stone, could you please offer some advice in regards to using it as thus far I have only succeed in runeing my bevle every time I have tried to use it.

Thanks

Are you sure that it's flat? Mine's super easy to use. I prefer to hone a razor to an 8k level and then just finish on the Artaunon. Water, oil or glycerine. It all works.

It lapped it prior to using it. Drew pencil grid to ensure it was true.

Lapping off grids does not ensure flatness. Pencil marks come off way before the stone is flat.

By any chance - did you email the seller? I'm sure Peter can help.

Thanks Gamma, I had no idea about the pencil marks. Always learning from everyone here. I will reach out to Peter and see what he has to say.

I picked up one to use while travelling over the summer. Really easy to use. I was doing a light slurry kicked up with a fine DMT leading to a water-only finish. Then a handful of licks on a Frictionite barber's hone. I didn't have much luck with the Thuringian add-on slurry.

As for lapping, I never really did this. It was stamped so nicely, and as I was generating a slurry, I assumed that a fresh enough surface was there. The stone was pretty small, leading to a point-by-point rather than linear approach when honing. Subsequently, insistence upon flatness seemed a bit of a moot point.