This is a dual purpose tool that is used for doing tile mosaics, and for breaking or "running" glass that has been scored with a glass cutter.

A GREAT tool for making small mosaic pieces!! It can be used to cut china plates, and, instead of "smashing" plates in a bag to break them up, you can actually cut and save small pieces (like flowers, etc).....without having to worry if they will break where you want them to when you smash them. Because this is a hand-held cutter, you can actually cut a curve with it! 

This tool has a cutting wheel below the breaker bar that is used to do mosaics or tile work. Many first time mosaic artists start by becoming what I call a "smasher".....whereby they smash, or break their tiles or china plates. When you start this way, you have no control over where the material breaks. My tool scores the surface with a cutting wheel that is attached under the breaking anvil, then the breaker applies pressure to both sides of the score to get a break EXACTLY where you want it......MUCH more efficient when you want to save that certain special piece! 

Tile "nippers", and other mosaic tools being sold elsewhere online just will not do what my tools will do!!  

 This tool is also the very best tool BY FAR for breaking or "running" glass after it has been scored with a glass cutter.... Because of the very steep "rake" angle of the fluted breaking anvil, it can actually "run" a scored line up to 12 feet long!!!   (choose the "zoom" feature when viewing pics to see a closeup of the breaker bar).  There is no other tool on the market today that can do this....

Regular running pliers or grozing pliers just WILL NOT DO THIS!!!!  

Each tool comes with a step-by-step instructional booklet that I wrote (I've been doing it for 38 years) that gives many different tips on cutting glass, tile, and mosaics. 

THROW AWAY YOUR TILE NIPPERS!!!!!!!