I still use a duckbill hammer to break breads. In fact just last week I demonstrated to a young kid in our shop how to do it. He was just amazed that a 70 year old geezer could knock a 9.00x20 bead down in just 2 licks. Its not how hard you swing, but the angle you hit them and where you hit them.

We couldn't find the RuGlyde, so I took an empty 1 gallon GoJo bottle and filled it almost full with water and shook it real good and poured the whole gallon on the bead and let it soak.