More of The Kitchen Project (4)

With the "back splash" and counter top tiled, all that remained was to finish up with the edge of the counter.

This was pretty easy to do, since it was a 2" border.  That way the only tiles needed to be cut would be possibly at one end.

Yeah, well as was mentioned previously, that cutting business can be a problem.

Here's what The Fuzz had to work with.

The big guy with the lever on top was way too big for those 2x2" tiles.  Plus they were a natural stone with an uneven face that made scoring them difficult.

The Fuzz did have this little jewel.

It seemed to be about the right size for this job.

But it also required scoring one side before trying to break it.

What he finally did, was use his trusty Dremel with a diamond cutting wheel to cut a groove...

and then use that thing to snap it.

This procedure had worked - more or less - when doing the back splash, but there were a number of useless broken tiles as a result.  In fact for a while he couldn't get any to break right.

Now with only a very few left to do, he was having no luck at all!

He tried simply cutting all the way through with the diamond wheel - a slow process - but even that didn't work.

The tiles, which were some kind of slate, tended to flake apart.

In the end, after many attempts, That Persistent Fuzz managed to get that last piece cut.

There had been some question about these guys staying in place  without any support.  One YouTube had tacked a board to the counter to support this sort of edge.  But the mastic proved thick enough to hold them without it.

And so, the tiles were finally in place.

The next step would be the grout.