Making small cabs

Rocky G: I find the small cabs kind of easy to mess up because the small size makes it real easy to grind them too much too fast. It is much faster to grind the crowns though because of the smaller size and they polish super fast because it's easy to eliminate flat spots on the smaller surface area. Instead of dop sticks, I use nails as dops. Small cabs stick real well with dop wax. You can even stick the nail into a large dop stick to make it easier to handle...Mel

I have quite a few small stones that have good color and would make nice little cabs. My shaky hands may not allow me to get that small. Haha