bill lee on thu 9 feb 12
Here's an idea about cutting out a bunch of tiles. Some years ago I was hir=
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ed to cut , stack and sand,=3DA0 3000 3 inch tiles for a Judaic artist.=3DA=
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was an architect by training and had made a frame contraption for cutting =
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out those tiles. It was cut from a piece of formica set on wooden risers to=
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go around the slab to be cut. Think a picture frame framing the clay slab =
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with the clay exposed. On the frame's top were glued a bunch of wooden bloc=
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ks precisely laid out to allow for shrinkage.=3DA0 I would lay a metal yard=
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tick against the top and bottom blocks and cut the clay vertically with a n=
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eedle tool,=3DA0 using the straight edge as the guide. In this way I was ab=
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to cut out 3000 tiles.
Bill
Bill Lee, Clay Artist=3D20
111 Lynnview Dr
Knoxville, TN 37918
(865) 230 6587
www.billleeclay.com=3D20
www.southernhighlandguild.org/billlee=3DA0workshops available
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