Quote Originally Posted by Laurens View Post
If you have some dull knives lying around, hone them. Otherwise, use any piece of hard (tool) steel, such as a screwdriver and rub it vigorously until the surface smoothens out. You'll be surprised just how smooth this rough diamond stone gets once broken in
Hi Laurens, I have another lower-grit water stone for honing knives. Maybe I will rub the DMT against that to "break in" the DMT first before I use it on my Naniwa 12k!