4. What tools did you use?
|
No. |
Artist |
Country |
Response |
|
4, 30,
245, 246 |
Jan
Abbotts |
Aust |
Just
the usual tools – glass scorer, Leponitt cutters of
course, and scoring pliers (can’t tell you how many times I had the things
upside down and couldn’t figure out why the glass wasn’t snapping – lots of
senior moments there). |
|
12, 13 |
Janelle
& Kirra & Jay Csurhes |
Aust |
Computer,
tile hammer, wheeled cutters. |
|
19, 101,
106, 123, 176, 180, 181 |
|
|
Leps to do all the cutting. A variety of tweezers to place the tesserae. Pliers
and a screwdriver to pop up tiles to rework parts of the design a few times. |
|
24, 175,
207 |
Liz, Matt
& Alannah Greenham |
Aust |
Tile
cutters and nippers. |
|
25, 26 |
Carolyn
Crawford |
|
Wheeled
nippers, glass grinder, dental pick etc. |
|
27,28 |
Veronica
Schubert |
Aust |
My
cutting was done with Leponnitts and I finished
some of the pieces off on a glass grinder. |
|
29 |
Valerie
Fuqua |
|
Leps |
|
34 |
Nancy Neubauer |
|
Stained
glass cutter, wheeled cutters, tile nippers. |
|
78 |
Hilde Hader |
|
My trusty
nippers. |
|
87, 88 |
Karen
& Laura Apolloni |
|
Tile
cutters. Paint brush for buttering adhesive onto tesserae. |
|
167 |
Jan Stiffler |
|
Just my
glass cutter and wheeled cutters. |
|
179 |
Christine
Brallier |
|
Wheeled
nippers, glass cutter. |
|
183, 184 |
Linda L Phillabaum |
|
My hands,
nippers, Lepps, glass scorer. |
|
193, 209 |
Dianne Schnarr |
|
I used
straight edged nippers, tweezers, an old sculpting
cleaning tool for maneuvering pieces or prising
them off if I didn’t like the placement. |
|
199 |
Christine
McKenzie |
|
Tile nippers,
parrot beak nippers for the curved bits, glasscutter to scribe some lines on
the tiles, along with a tile snapper. |
|
166, 202 |
Carolyn
and Anna Talarr |
|
Carolyn - Leponnitts,
dental tools, a drafting table surface cobbled together from Ikea closet
parts by my brilliant husband :) Anna - I used Leps
hand held tile cutters! |
|
206 |
Liz Brazelton |
|
Wheeled nippers. |
|
210, 211 |
Caroline
Kovacs |
Aust |
I used my electric tile saw to cut
down the big tiles and then tile nippers and a file to shape and trim. |
|
212, 215 |
June
Johnstone |
Aust |
Mosaic nippers and all my
fingernails. |
|
213 |
Sandy
Ozols |
Aust |
Tile
cutters, glass file & tweezers. |
|
233 |
Denny Nkemontoh |
|
Mainly a leponitt but also a pistol grip glass cutter, and a
grinder. |
|
235 |
Michelle
Curow (aka Dotty Marzipan) |
|
Stained
glass tools – glass knife, grozing pliers, running
pliers, and tweezers (!!!Have never used tweezers for a mosaic before this
one!). |
|
236 |
Dotti
Stone |
|
Leponitt wheel cutters. |
|
239 |
Deborah
Boyd |
|
I used nippers, pencil, paper, wax
paper, plastic wrap and tape. |
|
240, 241,
242, 243, 244 |
Lynne Mosiman |
|
We used
fiberglass mesh, Leponnitts wheeled nippers and
vitreous glass tile. |
|
247, 248 |
Tracey Holland (mrsdutchy) |
Aust |
Tile nippers |
|
250 |
Wendy
Clayton-Langley |
|
Leponnitts – glass tiles. |
|
249, 251 |
Maria
Kokkoris |
Aust |
Rotary
nippers and tile cutters. |
|
257 |
Katie Stecher (Princess Papoola) and
Family |
|
Wheeled
Cutters. |
|
|
Berta Sergeant |
|
I used
only Leps, and a lapidary file. |
|
|
Carol Shelkin |
|
Funny you
should ask. I had to construct a box with several sheets of clear plastic
wrap on the top with two holes in the side to be able to cut the tiles with
total safety for the children. |
|
?? |
Laura
Campbell and Liam Adams |
|
Nippers,
tile cutters. |
|
?? |
Maureen
Randolph |
Aust |
Lepps. |
|
?? |
Kate
Randolph |
Aust |
Lepps. |
|
282, 283 |
Margaret
Johnson |
Aust |
Leponitt cutters. |
|
? |
Alison
Hepburn |
|
They were
all done with double wheeled nippers. |
|
214 |
Jane
Denison |
Aust |
Clippers
and grunt power. |
|
260, 262 |
Lucy
Albertson (Sabrina’s Party) |
Aust |
Pliers,
glue, hammer and our hands. |
|
190 |
Marion
Shapiro |
Aust |
Pistol
grip glass cutter, grozing and running pliers,
glass grinder and kiln. |
|
77 |
Helen
Smith |
Aust |
Nippers
and glass cutters. |
|
154 |
Angela Kingshott |
|
Lepps. |
|
|
Jude
Russell |
Aust |
Hammer,
various ceramic tile cutters. |
|
|
June
Russell & Cheryl Lynam |
Aust |
Hammer,
various ceramic tile cutters. |
|
232 |
Ulrike
Martinez |
|
Just Lepp’s and straight pliers. |
|
279, 280 |
Rebekah
Dawes |
Aust |
Tiles,
tile cutter. |
|
162 |
Chris
Carey |
|
Tumbler,
glass nippers. |
|
|
Lyn Daffurn |
Aust |
My hands
mainly, also sponge, water, paddle pop stick and scrapper. |
|
208 |
Samra
Thompson |
|
A tile
saw and nippers, weldbond and mesh. |
|
284,285,
286 |
Dee and
Clayton Fisher |
Aust |
Tile/glass
snips, hammer, stone, ice cream sticks, small
trowel. |
|
|
Debra
Sutton |
Aust |
Glass
scorer, nippers, mesh and adhesive. |