Shaping Tiles for Mosaics

Video Transcript

"Do you remember how our Mexican tile broke with really jagged edges? If you don't like these jagged edges, you can use your tile nippers to straighten them out. What you do is, you anchor the bottom of the tile nippers on the bottom, and then you anchor it on the top, and you just pull it down like this. And that way, you can really get a straightened edge. You can also use these nippers to give yourself some curved edges, like this. With the nipping you may find it difficult to do concave edges. It's kind of hard to get this big tool into those little spaces. In that case, you may want to use the tile stone. The tile stone works just like a nail file, so you rub it back and forth over the edge. This is good for concave edges or also straight edges that just aren't straight enough for you. I'll show you. See how that really smoothed out the edge? That gives you some nice clean edges for some very professional looking mosaics."