Making a small cut on the back of the marble ensures the slab does not chip or break.
Cutting marble slab with tile saw.
Using a wet tile saw helps to ensure that you don t shatter the stone or marble tile.
If you don t have a wet saw available you can cut stone tile with a manual hacksaw.
Tools and material needed to cut and home marble.
Poking a small hole in the cap of a bottle of water is a great option if a hose is not available.
Water bottle or if possible a hose the diamond blade cuts much faster and better if used with a constant stream of water.
Either will work but the wet cut circular saw will produce very little dust thanks to a small tube that drizzles.
Saw blades usually cut out 1 8 inch 0 32 cm from your material so make sure your blade is on the scrap side of your line.
Skilsaw used to cut the marble.
Diamond blade for cutting tile specific blade used in cutting rock or tile needs to fit your skilsaw.
Mark your cutting line on wide tape direct a trickle of water onto the front of the blade and then make your cut.
Turn on the saw when you are ready to use it feed the marble slowly into the saw until you reach about 1 3 in 2 5 7 6 cm and then stop.
This video goes through the basics of using a small inexpensive wet saw to cut marble or granite tiles.
You can use an ordinary circular saw equipped with a diamond blade to wet cut your marble.
It s not that hard.
Cut the marble with the finished side facing downwards onto your piece of foam.
Choose either a standard circular saw or a wet cut circular saw to cut granite.
Adjust the fence closer or further from the blade until your mark lines up with the saw.
In the next video i ll show you how you may cut dry.
As with ceramic tiles you can use a tile nipper tile cutter or electric wet saw to cut stone tiles.