[Shop-talk] It's spring...

[scott.hall at comcast.net]

the guys that were facing an office next to a job site I saw were using chisels and what looked like a wet tile saw.  they used a big gas-powered circular saw for the landscape blocks.  whatever you learn, I'd like to learn, too.  I'll have an addition to brick pretty soon...


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From: John Miller <jem at milleredp.com>
> ...and that means I'm six months overdue on doing the brick facing on 
> the outdoor kitchen I framed up last year.  It's a welded-steel frame 
> faced with Wonderboard with gas grill and the like, and that part's all 
> done, I just need to face it now.
> 
> I've got a large pile of brick sitting here, from various parts of our 
> house (fireplace, exterior trim) pre-remodel, and I think I know how to 
> mix mortar, and I've pretty much figured out all the dimensions.
> 
> So how does one cut brick?
> 
> I know it's been done with hammers and chisels, and I suppose if that's 
> the RIGHT way I've got lots of extra brick to practice on.
> 
> I own angle grinders and a Harbor Freight metal cutoff saw and the usual 
> collection of other power apparatus, but no wet-saws or anything of that 
> nature.
> 
> I haven't yet tried running the circular saw with the masonry blade over 
> a brick to see what happens.