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| Topic: Cutting brick | | I am not a professional bricklayer, but have laid a few thousand (my dad was a bricklayer for several years and he taught me how)and have recently started building brick mailboxes on the side. I have an old brick saw (manufactured by Champion of St. Louis-must be 35 years old!), which does okay, but my problem is cutting the keystone bricks for the arch. My saw head does not tilt, so I fashion a jig out of wood to try and help hold the brick at the correct angle to cut the miters along the length of the brick. This works okay for the first pass, but not so well when I have to make the second pass on the opposite side. It takes me 3-4 hours to cut the 14 arch brick for the box I do the most. Is there some sort of factory jig I can mount to my sliding table that would adjust to the angle you need and would help hold the brick? Thanks (by gstanfo) |
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