Hi all, first post on this forum.
I am a plumber based in North Yorkshire, when tiling bathrooms I like to mitre the tiles instead of trim. I have looked everywhere for a small machine to do the job. I know there is the mitre whiz, raiamondi bulldog etc.
so to cut to the chase, I have made a working prototype mitre saw. Don't want to go into too much detail but the gist of it is it works very similar to a stand alone routing machine with a fence ( not using a router bit though). It takes one pass and about 45 seconds to mitre a porcelain tile 600mm long with zero chip out.
At the moment it works dry , but with a few mods would work wet.
im very happy with the way it works but wondered how interested anyone else would be and the following questions.
how much would tilers be prepared to pay for a manufactured version?
should I patent it ( can't find anything like it.)
what should I do next?
I am a plumber based in North Yorkshire, when tiling bathrooms I like to mitre the tiles instead of trim. I have looked everywhere for a small machine to do the job. I know there is the mitre whiz, raiamondi bulldog etc.
so to cut to the chase, I have made a working prototype mitre saw. Don't want to go into too much detail but the gist of it is it works very similar to a stand alone routing machine with a fence ( not using a router bit though). It takes one pass and about 45 seconds to mitre a porcelain tile 600mm long with zero chip out.
At the moment it works dry , but with a few mods would work wet.
im very happy with the way it works but wondered how interested anyone else would be and the following questions.
how much would tilers be prepared to pay for a manufactured version?
should I patent it ( can't find anything like it.)
what should I do next?