The stubborns from Black Friday

Darlin', ;you might be bearing down too hard while holding too far up on the stick. I hold the stick down at the stone and use my thumb knuckle to steady the left side of the stone and my finger knuckles on the right side of the stick while I rock it round. If you hold the top of the stick and bear down on the edge of the stone it will pop. That is how I release my stones when I'm ready.
And be sure you are using super glue gel! And put a match head size lump on the nail head. Don't short it on the glue. T

Tony:
You are probably right on that. Tony was watching me cut the girdle and he said I have some wierd way of holding the cab, he sort of holds it at like a 45 degree angle, I tend to do it sort of upside down, and I am probably putting too much pressure on, not for long though.......wait until you see my post on Wed.

I grasp the dop stick at about the middle of its length in my right hand (I'm right-handed) and cradle the cab in my left hand with my left index finger just brushing the wheel or belt. This takes almost all of the pressure of the cabbing activities off the dop/cab junction. I almost never have the dop stick separate from the stick (only happens when it is really cold in the garage). I use regular dop wax (for the last zillion years) but I don't use a dop pot. I use an alcohol lamp to heat the preform and dop on the stick.
Bob