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

Donna Coogan & Family

USA

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

USA

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

USA

Leps

 

34

Nancy Neubauer

USA

Stained glass cutter, wheeled cutters, tile nippers.

 

78

Hilde Hader

Canada

My trusty nippers.

 

87, 88

Karen & Laura Apolloni

USA

Tile cutters. Paint brush for buttering adhesive onto tesserae.

 

167

Jan Stiffler

USA

Just my glass cutter and wheeled cutters.

 

179

Christine Brallier

USA

Wheeled nippers, glass cutter.

 

183, 184

Linda L Phillabaum

USA

My hands, nippers, Lepps, glass scorer.

 

193, 209

Dianne Schnarr

New Zealand

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

New Zealand

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

USA

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

USA

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

USA

Mainly a leponitt but also a pistol grip glass cutter, and a grinder.

 

235

Michelle Curow (aka Dotty Marzipan)

Canada

Stained glass tools – glass knife, grozing pliers, running pliers, and tweezers (!!!Have never used tweezers for a mosaic before this one!).

 

236

Dotti Stone

USA

Leponitt wheel cutters.

 

239

Deborah Boyd

USA

I used nippers, pencil, paper, wax paper, plastic wrap and tape.

 

240, 241, 242, 243, 244

Lynne Mosiman

USA

We used fiberglass mesh, Leponnitts wheeled nippers and vitreous glass tile.

247, 248

Tracey Holland (mrsdutchy)

Aust

Tile nippers

 

250

Wendy Clayton-Langley

USA

Leponnitts – glass tiles.

 

249, 251

Maria Kokkoris

 

Aust

Rotary nippers and tile cutters.

257

Katie Stecher (Princess Papoola) and Family

USA

Wheeled Cutters.

 

Berta Sergeant

 

USA

I used only Leps, and a lapidary file.

 

 

Carol Shelkin

USA

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

Canada

Nippers, tile cutters.

??

Maureen Randolph

Aust

Lepps.

 

??

Kate Randolph

Aust

Lepps.

 

282, 283

Margaret Johnson

Aust

Leponitt cutters.

 

?

Alison Hepburn

England

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

England

Lepps.

 

 

Jude Russell

Aust

Hammer, various ceramic tile cutters.

 

 

June Russell & Cheryl Lynam

Aust

Hammer, various ceramic tile cutters.

232

Ulrike Martinez

USA

Just Lepp’s and straight pliers.

 

279, 280

Rebekah Dawes

Aust

Tiles, tile cutter.

 

162

Chris Carey

USA

Tumbler, glass nippers.

 

 

Lyn Daffurn

Aust

My hands mainly, also sponge, water, paddle pop stick and scrapper.

 

208

Samra Thompson

USA

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.