Encaustic Tiles, advise please. - TilersForums.com

[Spare Tool]

Looking good, prepared to go home tomorrow looking like casper, never known as much dust as these things kick out when cutting them, with the grinder anyway..

 

[Waluigi]

Cheers, Yeah fun day tomorrow. Get masked up and plough my way through.

Debating whether the bath panel is going to be done.

 

[Spare Tool]

Cheers, Yeah fun day tomorrow. Get masked up and plough my way through.

Debating whether the bath panel is going to be done.

Could be tricky getting the board on the panel to fix back far enough to accommodate the thickness of them, unless the legs are well out of the way.. Or spoze you could build a lip round the bath?

 

[Albert]

I have cut a lot of encaustics by scoring on Rubi and snapping with pin hammer

 

[Waluigi]

These are 16mm thick, Albert. Would that still be possible? I hadn’t even considered it.

@Andystiletiling I think it would be possible but I’d have to cut the mounting brackets back a bit on the Bath. Probably use a thick XPS Bath panel Board. I’ll probably cut the Foam board first and take a look. It would be an incredibly heavy removeable panel. I always have my panels removeable.

 

[Albert]

all the cuts here are done as i said. All 16mm, give it a try

 

[Waluigi]

Are they the thick ones Albert?

Explain to me more about this technique. I’ve not done it before. Many thanks.

 

[Albert]

Are they the thick ones Albert?

Explain to me more about this technique. I’ve not done it before. Many thanks.

Before cutting machines became readily available you cut tiles with
a pin hammer and a cutting chisel you drew a line and tapped a break
in the surface, you then tapped the back of the tile sharply behind
your break line with your pin hammer to separate the two pieces
I still cut a lot of tiles this way except instead of the cutting chisel
I score with my rubi cutter and then break with cutting hammer.
It still works for me

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Its the way tiles were cut prior to rail cutters and grinders.
Ask @Albert about cutting a hole in a quarry tile with a pin hammer.

Too slow in replying again!

 

[Albert]