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Last night I started another mosaic, but found myself
cutting the pieces into smaller shards again. I just
can't seem to bring myself to make mosaics with large
pieces.
What is your preference? Are you a square tiler?
Do you prefer working with triangles? Rectangles?
Pique assiette / chunk style?
Pique Assiette and small freeform chunks, as i love to use vintage plates etc...love the old porcelain, bone china, or italian florals as embellishments! Someday when i get the courage, Wuvie, i will get a tile cutter like the one in your thread, and make perfect squares..i love to mosaic, but don't do it often enough...would hate to have "still another toy, not being used"...sue
Wuvie, I asked you this question in a 2009 thread yesterday and didn't have an answer yet . Lo and behold , looking through these old threads , Bingo , my answer . I think I had asked on the T t T thread . I'll go over there and see if you still prefer the little pieces, if you've seen my question yet . What tile cutter is weeds asking about ? D
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Lowes carries a small QDP tile saw which runs about eighty dollars,
but...but...but! A week ago I was shopping at Lowes and discovered
they have a smaller 4" tile saw for about fifty dollars. Very cool!
Yes, I do prefer little pieces. I've tried to use larger sections, but I guess
I just prefer the look of time consuming work.
I'll hop over to the other thread to visit you. :-) Karen
I'm interested in a tile saw also. I'm assuming it's electric. I just spent a small fortune on some intricately designed mexican tile and would rather cut it than break it. Any other info I should know about the saw? Is it simple enough to use for a beginner? Will it cut glass tile? Thanks for any help ☺
I have an electric tile saw---in fact I need to use it today to cut some Saltillos to (finallly) finish my front step riser. It's got a big whirling blade that drips water to keep the tile cool. I'm good with power tools, but this one's not for the faint of heart. I don't know if I'd use it routinely to cut really small pieces---it might be kind of stressful.
It's got a diamond blade, so it would probably cut glass, but I think a hand glass-cutter is better because I suspect this blade would not make a fine enough cut---and if you used it for tile and glass I think the edges of the glass would not cut clean because the blade would get compromised by the tile. And you might get glass chips flying, which would be pretty unnerving for me.
I know at our local Home Depot, you can take a few tiles in when they're not busy and they'll cut them for you. Or you might be able to get a tile pro to cut them for you for a few bucks---I've done that, too. Or if you have a bunch to cut, you could rent a tile saw rather than spending $300 on a decent one. OR maybe you could post an ad on your local Freecycle and see if you can find someone to loan you a saw or cut them for you?
Too bad we aren't closer together---I'd cut them for ya in a heartbeat!
Thanks ☺ The glass I need cut is just 3 trim peices 2x6 inches. I tiled my bath wall about 3 1/2 feet up and these are the finish tiles on the top. So you think I should get a hand glass cutter?
I assume it's "normal" thickness? If that's the case, I'd suggest getting some scrap glass to practice on if you haven't cut much glass before, and then have at it with a hand glass cutter!
Wuvie... I like to use what ever size I need in a piece to change the direction of the eye from time to time. But..my piece I'm working on is large so I think the same size over and over may be a little ... confusing. So, I break it up with rocks somethimes, tile, glass, stone tiles, ceramic pieces (like fish), shells, glass bubbles, round glass marble type things...flat on one side), etc. This is my first piece so I didn't know what I was doing when I started it...I just did what I wanted to. Doesn't look too bad with all the mixture of different sizes of glass. If I want to get a piece done fast...I use big pieces of broken plates or make large pottery tiles, etc. Sometime "fast" is the goal for me..lol...
Gee...it's been so long since I've been over here on this thread that I forgot some of you were over here too! Winter's coming so fast I'm back to the inside projects...ie...bathroom mosaic. Maybe I'll finish it this year:)
