How to Levigate a stone!
- Begin with a lime stone slab.
- have stone on level sink with grates.
- Wet stone with cold water
- take #80 carborundum grit or 100# and put it ontop of the stone.
- place levigator ontop of stone. begin to spin the levigator
- follow a pattern with the levigator to ensure an even surface
- Proceed to repeat this process 3x with each grit - 80, 100, 120, 220.
- once done, take a squeegee and wipe off excess water.
- Take leather fan, and dry stone.
- Take a steel straight edge and paper towel, and measure if the stone is level on each plane if the paper towel moves after a tug, re-levigate the stone.
- take a file and file down the edges
- stone is now ready for etching.
