AA
Joined: Jul 09, 2004
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NEED HELP!
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Okay, I had this great idea to idea to pick up some nice tile to use for inlay on the ears & eyes for my tiki. I looked around at a few places. Since I wanted a really bright blue color, one of the tile places suggested
That I go to a pool tile supply house. Since I only wanted one square foot of tile, the place just gave them to me as a sample.
Nice color, huh?
I really like this tile, because of the different shades of blue running through it. I think it will make the eyes really pop next to a nice dark brown stain.
I bought a rotozip tile cutter bit, used a template to do the outline for the ears with grease pencil, & clamped it down to some plywood.
Not easy. Less than a minute in I slipped & got a nice scratch across the surface. I quickly found the tile bit to be worthless. Plan B: I switched to a carbide bit, which worked only slightly better, then started to get hot really quick.
Plan C: Switched to some diamond bits. The packaged said they would work at 30,000 RPM & cut everything, including Tungsten Carbide steel! These lasted about one minute, then all of the “diamonds” ground off the end and they became worthless.
This is as far as I got with my brilliant idea. This is the smaller circular piece for the top part of the easter island ears. I packed up the tools for the day & decided to lean on you guys for suggestions.
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I really love this tile, & I haven’t given up on it yet. There must be a better easier way to cut it than with the Dremel or at least with the bits that I tried so far.
ANY IDEAS? I NEED SOME HELP HERE!
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"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso
[ Edited by: Aaron's Akua on 2004-09-12 13:40 ]
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