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    Any word words to help with this Deano
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    Any word words to help with this Deano
    Sorry m8 I was having a mare getting the pics on. It is a boarder in trav cut from the scrap off cuts

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    fiddly

    But looks good as usual
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    Deano,

    That's very ingenious and a superb tip.

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    great idea

    no thickness issues and matches perfectly
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    Quote Originally Posted by whitebeam View Post
    fiddly

    But looks good as usual
    Not that bad m8 just set the cutter up for repeat cuts and cut the strips then made a jig set the depth gauge on the blade and run them of. 2hours to cut 10 minutes to fix

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    nice bespoke idea

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    what you have to do when cuts are to fiddly now and again cut a grout line in one tile instead of two cuts good point Deano

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    what you have to do when cuts are to fiddly now and again cut a grout line in one tile instead of two cuts good point Deano
    thats the one m8 you know the score.

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    have to have a practice of that one

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    Deano, what cutter you using?

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    yes deano i have made my own broken porcelain before using the same method

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    the blue one m8.

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    Whos a clever boy then
    What made you do it like that,or did the customer ask you to do.

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    Deano Perlas ? i have two of them as well lol a great machine no probs in 10 years

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    Quote Originally Posted by marky View Post
    Whos a clever boy then
    What made you do it like that,or did the customer ask you to do.
    i did it in his other en-suite to overcome a setting out problem and he decided to do the same type of thing in that one.

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