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Oh my goodness, look at this saw! Hi I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com
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Check this sweet ceramic tile diamond wet saw out. Oh is it nice! Let me tell you
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why they're so great. Sometimes you have to use a saw like this to cut thin
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pieces off a piece of tile where you can't snap it. You also need to use these
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sometimes to make like an L-shaped cut where you're taking a corner out of a piece of tile. They're also very handy to make angle cuts and oh they just work so
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well. How does a ceramic wet saw work? Simple, it's got a very different blade
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than the type of blade you use to cut wood. You'll notice that the blade
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doesn't have any teeth on it. It looks absolutely smooth but in reality it's
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got these small ultra pieces of diamond embedded in the steel of the blade and
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and those little pieces of diamond are what cut the ceramic tile, the granite, slate
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whatever you're trying to cut with this saw. Very, very important that you keep that saw blade wet all the time with water
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and the saw comes with its own pump that actually recirculates the water that's sitting in a pan
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and it flows across the blade and onto your tile keeping both of them cool as can be That what makes sure that your blade lasts a long time The saw also can go up and down and it can tilt left and right
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in case you have to cut thicker or thinner materials and if you want to
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make angled cuts at either twenty two and a half or forty five degrees. The tile
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sits on a really nice bed that actually slides across some great rails. The bed
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has a nice rubber base so that the tile will not move when it gets wet and more
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importantly it comes with a nice miter gauge in case you actually want to cut
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the flat tile at a 45 degree angle. Oh check this out! Look at that little thin sliver. You can't do that with one
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of those snap cutters. That's why you need a diamond wet saw sometimes to cut
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ceramic tile. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com. If you want to discover more home improvement
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tips, go to AskTheBuilder.com
