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Edit May 2024: THIS is a New Show Us Your Work Thread for 2024 Onwards

This is the new Tilers Showcase Forum where we want new tiling work added, with each tiling job you complete having a thread of its own so people can see what kind of work you do, and potential customers can find your work



I thought it was about time we had a thread dedicated to all members of Tilers forums to show us any work that they do.

Be it from installing a kitchen to garden decking. Show us your work! Get those pictures taken, but then do something with them! Actually add them to a thread and some facebook groups with your website link in them etc and it'll help spread the tile love. :)

If you have done a job then please do share it with us.

Pics are a MUST as what is the point of sharing a job without them..:smilewinkgrin:.

So if you do a job and you take a few pics then please do share it with us.

Lets make it a big thread for all to view and input in.

Thanks Dave ..:thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
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Crikey! Not the answer I expected, thought maybe grinder, cutting as you've described must take some skill great work! Thanks for the response

Hi pro-handyman , if you put a tile - finshed side down - underneath the tile you're scribing it will turn easier as you scribe.
I did a little vid a while ago to show how i do it with a bit of odd tile. Wrong BB I know but as you asked I'll pop the link in here.
I did it on my TXN 1200


YouTube - Cutting a curve in a tile on flatbed cutter

Hope it helps

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That is truly amazing! Just out of interest, how long would it take you to complete a piece of work like this from start to finish?

Thank you Brian :) as to how long... you know, I really prefer not having deadlines - if someone said do this in a week I'd really struggle, as this is not something you can do 8 hours a day, the creative stamina is a different thing all together - there is not one piece in that that has been automatically or just mechanically put down or cut, there is so much in there. Kilty was the perfect customer, he knew I had to go and look after my Mum, he paid 50% up front no problem to show his commitment, I showed him progress photos, so he knew it was happening. And when I realized that the line beween the darker top and lighter bottom half of the fish had gone slightly too high, I took it all off again and started again. I just finished the background today, but have been working on a charity piece, too, this is my favoured kind of working, nip in and out of the studio, often work in the evening.. and I forgot to make a note of the hours. Also I used the double reverse method on this fish, which I really like it, and gave it a sculpted body, all issues which change with every project. To be able to work at an artistically comfortable speed I'd say three weeks would be plenty, but to have a patient customer like Kilty who understands that this kind of results is better achieved slowly was wonderful. Not knowing much about fish I really researched other pictures, too, how they look when wet, what kind of underwater landscape they live in, what the fins look like in the water - as on the photo they were out of the water and flat, and I wanted to make him look alive! Also it took me a while to find materials I had never used not thought of before, like the copper rods in the fins etc, all that takes time. If I had to do a fish again now I would be faster, as I know more about these things now.

Phew.. does that answer your question? :lol:
 
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Ian

Thank you Brian :) as to how long... you know, I really prefer not having deadlines - if someone said do this in a week I'd really struggle, as this is not something you can do 8 hours a day, the creative stamina is a different thing all together - there is not one piece in that that has been automatically or just mechanically put down or cut, there is so much in there. Kilty was the perfect customer, he knew I had to go and look after my Mum, he paid 50% up front no problem to show his commitment, I showed him progress photos, so he knew it was happening. And when I realized that the line beween the darker top and lighter bottom half of the fish had gone slightly too high, I took it all off again and started again. I just finished the background today, but have been working on a charity piece, too, this is my favoured kind of working, nip in and out of the studio, often work in the evening.. and I forgot to make a note of the hours. Also I used the double reverse method on this fish, which I really like it, and gave it a sculpted body, all issues which change with every project. To be able to work at an artistically comfortable speed I'd say three weeks would be plenty, but to have a patient customer like Kilty who understands that this kind of results is better achieved slowly was wonderful. Not knowing much about fish I really researched other pictures, too, how they look when wet, what kind of underwater landscape they live in, what the fins look like in the water - as on the photo they were out of the water and flat, and I wanted to make him look alive! Also it took me a while to find materials I had never used not thought of before, like the copper rods in the fins etc, all that takes time. If I had to do a fish again now I would be faster, as I know more about these things now.

Phew.. does that answer your question? :lol:

Perfectly! I can't begin to express the admiration I have for work like this. I know that I could spend a 1000 hours on a piece like this and it'd still have to go in the bin! You should get an MBE or something!
 

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