I just finished making my first mosaic and love the craft. I have been basically using a hammer to break up my tiles into tesserae and hoping I can get enough sizes and shapes from the regular hammer. When I saw this on another channel, I screamed, "EUREKA!" Unfortunately, a hardie and chisel set on Amazon is close to $250. USD. My husband said he can make me a set from scrap in the barn at the farm! YAY! I assume you use the tesserae you make without smoothing the edges?
If I want to smooth the edges I put the tesserae to in a cement mixer with some very dry, fine sand (the sort you use for a child's sandpit) about 2 - 3 hours does the trick. Great that you're getting your own set, the key is to just get the weight in the hammer, 800 - 1000grams is what you want. 👍
This was great Lawrence. I needed a bit more information on my shape cutting and this hit the hammer on the hardie! 😉
That's great, glad it was useful. 😁
I just finished making my first mosaic and love the craft. I have been basically using a hammer to break up my tiles into tesserae and hoping I can get enough sizes and shapes from the regular hammer. When I saw this on another channel, I screamed, "EUREKA!" Unfortunately, a hardie and chisel set on Amazon is close to $250. USD. My husband said he can make me a set from scrap in the barn at the farm! YAY! I assume you use the tesserae you make without smoothing the edges?
If I want to smooth the edges I put the tesserae to in a cement mixer with some very dry, fine sand (the sort you use for a child's sandpit) about 2 - 3 hours does the trick.
Great that you're getting your own set, the key is to just get the weight in the hammer, 800 - 1000grams is what you want. 👍
Thank you very much for sharing this 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I like the effect this creates; fewer machine edges.
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