Tiling tools – Manual tile cutters, professional tile cutter

Decorative wall ceramics made with Slalom tile cutter.

The wall decoration depicting a horse has been designed with a special tile cutter able to cut curves in most types of tile. This work is particularly interesting because it has been achieved not only using the Slalom S63 tile cutter, but also Montolit tile nibblers and an angle grinder.

In the video below you can see in detail some of the major phases during the execution project :

How to cut simple and regular curves in tiles
How to cut freehand curves in tiles
The best way to split curved incisions
Finishing corners of very small diameters
The repetition of identical curves on different tiles
The assembly of the tile pieces into the pattern created

With this type of manual tile cutter it is possible to make beautiful patterns to decorate walls and floors in the bath room, bed room, living rooms and entrances.
Some tile layers may even use this cutter to create detail in mixed flooring which uses, for example, ceramic and parquet together.

Using the Slalom tile cutter to make curved cuts in porcelain tiles is very easy and can be a valuable and economical substitute against the use of a Water Jet Cutter.
The only limit is that it is not possible to make tiny cuts which have very small diameters. In this case, the Water Jet will obviously remain the best solution.

Many Italian and International Architects and Designers made many creations using this special SLALOM tile cutter manufactured by Montolit.

Perhaps one day we will also appear in Vogue magazine ?!

As usual, at Cersaie fair in Bologna, we had the possibility to show how to use our special tile cutter able to manually make curve cuts (also perfect radius) in tiles. This special machine named Slalom (S63) was one of the most appreciated items in our stand. During the fair we met a professional tiler from France that made a very complex and beautiful work using also our Slalom cutter. With this post we would like to show through this work, the potential of this manual tile cutter.
Following this link you can find a very good technical description of this work.
More posts about this machine will be published in the near future.