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Article, 'Using tile nippers to cut stone'

 
Article on using ordinary tile nippers to cut stone tesserae. This has appeared before but I have added a small bit on cutting shapes.
Click here

Cutting a hole for the hardie

I've put a new article on the 'Technical' area. This is how I cut the hole for the hardie. I've used the minimum of powertools as not everyone has access to them.
See the article here

Hammer and Hardie manual

I've just finished writing a (A5 size) manual on using the hammer and hardie. It's got everything I can think of from the last 10 years of using them. It's clearly set out with a lot of colour images and I'll put the index here so you can see what's in it.
You can find the pagehere
 
Types of hammer
Types of hardie
Using the hammer and hardie           
     Cutting lips on tesserae