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![]() When you have rotated the wheels 360 degrees and the lines meet up again, you know it is time to replace the WHEELS and not the whole cutter.Īs most of the power and control comes from the base of your thumb, hold the cutter as far back as possible with the wheels facing inward. When you feel that the wheels are getting blunt, loosen the wheels with an allen key and turn them a notch. Squeeze the wheels together and using a black permanent marker draw a line across the wheels where the cutting edges meet. Using an allen key tighten the bolts until there is no movement at all. When buying a new cutter, I recommend that you first check to ensure that the wheels are tight. It makes cutting tiles in triangles a little difficult so move the guide out of the way. Place the tile between the wheels and adjust the guide so that it will place the cutting edges in the middle of the tile, and tighten in place with the allen key. Some cutters are equipped with a guide (a small L-shaped metal piece which is adjusted with an allen key) which comes in very handy if you have large amounts of tiles to cut in the same shape. A spring allows for recoil once the cut has been made and should be replaced if the recoil is no longer brisk and firm. The cutter works very much like a scissors with the handles crossing into the cutting base with two wheels attached. Following are a few tips and tricks which will make cutting tiles a whole lot easier and help you experiment with more confidence. ![]() The two-wheel mosaic cutter is a great tool to use – it is light, easy to use and pretty much does everything you need it to do to create a mosaic masterpiece. The one constant remained – to be able to mosaic was most important – how they got tiles into the shape they needed was completely immaterial! Since then I have been amazed at how many people are quite happy to cut their tiles in various strange methods from using huge tile cutters used for floor and wall tiles to “smashing floor tiles with a hammer”. It only took 14 projects and three months to eventually discover the 2-wheel cutter and at last I found a tool that I could work with! When I first started mosaic five years ago I was given a pistol-grip oil-filled tile cutter by the salesman at a local craft store! Have you ever tried cutting a 25x25mm glass tile with this contraption? Having to first “score” the tile to mark the line of the cut was bad enough but then having to “break” the tile along the score line with a plastic snapper was an exercise in frustration to say the least. ![]() Our thanks to the author for permission to republish this. Cutting with the bumpy side up will allow you to see what you are doing.INTRODUCTION TO 2-WHEEL MOSAIC TILE CUTTERS This Article was originally published in
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