glass mosaic cutting

[lucius]

Doing some glass mosaic work and need to do some cutting i see that their are some hand cutters on sale, 2 wheel jobbies, do they work? or what are the options.
Lucius

[david campbell]

you are better with a wet saw,i take it this is your first time tiling with these,beacuse if you try and do these with a manual cutter it'll be like standing in the bottom of a glass bank!

[cornish_crofter]

By a wet saw I assume you mean a standard wet tile cutter?

I've got exactly the same problem and I was using an old plasplugs cheapie with a knakered disk and bearings that make interesting noises.

I've just come back from Plymouth with the £60 plasplugs cutter, probably could have bought better, but I liked the fence arrangement on this one. It should help me hold the tile better.

CTD suggested using scoring and tile nibblers. That worked to a point, but where the cut end is gainst the trim I wanted a cleaner cut.

That old tile cutter was so noisy I thought the wheel was going to come off and take my fingers with it!

[Dave]

Doing some glass mosaic work and need to do some cutting i see that their are some hand cutters on sale, 2 wheel jobbies, do they work? or what are the options.
Lucius

Once you get the knack of using them, they work great on glass mocaics...


Here's a quality set from TT.....


Wheel Nippers


Price: £13.80 £15.87 Including VAT at 15%




http://www.tradetiler.com/acatalog/tile_nippers.html

[doug boardley]

the link won't open for me Dave, how do they work then?

[Dave]

They work by taking thin slithers off rather than nibbling doug...you can cut thiner pieces off then traditional nibblers..

[doug boardley]

need to order a new blade for my cutter,slip a pair of those on t'order as well i think! Cheers mate!

[Fred]

So you push them along the tile and then cut it off, or does it cut as you go?

[Dave]

Si..they work like scissors.....

[Fred]

Be good to0 see them on a video link being used as I'm interested in investing in them.

[lucius]

Cheers Dave their the ones i mean if you say they work i believe it i whent into my local suppliers today in Spain and all they had was ceramic cutters for mosaic can you tell me anywhere in Machester where i can get the proper cutter as i have a pal coming over next week and he could bring with him.
Regards Andy

[Dave]

He will be able to get them in CTD..( rubi ones) if he can't get them from TT online..

[Daz]

I've achieved some good clean cuts on glass with my Rubi TR600S (dry cutter). Thick glass, not the thin mosaic stuff tho'.

[lucius]

Cheers Dave

[Leatherface]

Doing some glass mosaic work and need to do some cutting i see that their are some hand cutters on sale, 2 wheel jobbies, do they work? or what are the options.
Lucius

Hi, sometimes it is possible to get away without any cutting on mosaics. Depends upon area to be tiled and size of mosaics. See my post on curved wet room. In this, the ceiling inside the shower was out by 10mm from lowest to highest point, also the circumference would have meant a cut at one side, if spaced normally.
However I did not do any cutting.....
Instead I cut up some of the sheets into smaller strips and gradually " tickled " the spacing to accommodate full tiles, this is a bit time consuming.But if done carefully can hardly be noticed when the job is grouted. The mirror mosaics were also cut into individual strips and the spacing increased slightly as they did not fit and would have otherwise meant a cut on one edge ( would not have looked very nice )

[Dave]

Hi, sometimes it is possible to get away without any cutting on mosaics. Depends upon area to be tiled and size of mosaics. See my post on curved wet room. In this, the ceiling inside the shower was out by 10mm from lowest to highest point, also the circumference would have meant a cut at one side, if spaced normally.
However I did not do any cutting.....
Instead I cut up some of the sheets into smaller strips and gradually " tickled " the spacing to accommodate full tiles, this is a bit time consuming.But if done carefully can hardly be noticed when the job is grouted. The mirror mosaics were also cut into individual strips and the spacing increased slightly as they did not fit and would have otherwise meant a cut on one edge ( would not have looked very nice )

Did they jump about as you tickled them.....

[Leatherface]

No, they just giggled and said "stop it"

[twicesixpence]

I'm thinking of using mosaic glass tiles 15mm x 15mm in my kitchen and will have to go round sockets so I am sure to have to cut some. Already have an Erbauer tile cutter for which I could possibly buy a special glass cutting disk. I've read through the thread but am still confused. It seems that cutting glass is a bit problematic! Any ideas?

[sWe]

Brevetti Montolit Spa

http://www.montolit.com/allegati/video/vd_A09TE50.wmv

Rocks.

[Aztectiler]

Fully agree with swe the montolit cutter is a great piece of kit for cuuting mosaics. It allows you to cut individual tiles while still attached to the sheet, simply score in the normal fashion and the montolit has a secondry breaker system that you deploy to break the mosaic along the score line.

[sWe]

Yeah, that rocks too, but it's not that great with really thin mosaics. That which I linked wasn't one of the manual cutters though It's way cooler

[Swanseajack]

I'm thinking of using mosaic glass tiles 15mm x 15mm in my kitchen and will have to go round sockets so I am sure to have to cut some. Already have an Erbauer tile cutter for which I could possibly buy a special glass cutting disk. I've read through the thread but am still confused. It seems that cutting glass is a bit problematic! Any ideas?

You should be fine with your wet cutter, from my experience, always leave the protective paper on glass for cutting, to stop scratching, alternatively, fix some cardboard to cutter bed. Also, I find it's best to fix with white adhesive to stop colour bleeding through, and ease of grouting. I also back butter very thinly to stop comb marks/mesh showing.

And always wear your safety glasses when cutting.

[lucius]

Well Dave believe it or not just got the cutters today from my Spanish suppliers,
not bad only took 3 months, considering its a Spanish company absolute awfull service, and the price with discount 38€ which i moaned like hell about eventualy my supplier (who i get on realy well with but has also been ripped of by Rubi Espana he showed me the invoice he was putting 2€ on it) has agreed to match any U.K. price. I found one company doing them for £27.49, brand tools .com does anyone know anybody doing them cheaper. My mate whent to CTD in Manchester and the salesman didnt know what he was talking about so he showed him it in the catalogue and the salesman said they had never sold one of them before so i told my mate to leave it as i would be sure to get a pair in Spain easy, mistake.
Anyway dont know when i will try them out as the job they were for is long finished and i had no problem cutting the glass mosaic by scoring on the cutter and nibbling with stantard nibblers.
Lucius.