How to choose the best incision wheel for your snap tile cutter

Basically you can find 2 main types of tile cutter's incision wheels on the market.
One is very basic (garbage for the professional people), the other one has great performances.

The first low performance incision wheel is the standard Carbide Cutting Wheel (they are grey) assembled on the 99.9% of the cheaper manual tile cutter. This incision wheel is very weak and you will consume it in a few weeks if you use it on extremely hard material like the new tiles made in Gres Porcelain or for cutting glass for example.

The best incision wheels currently on the market are Tungsten Carbide coated with Titanium (they are yellow). Thanks also to the Titanium surface, these professional cutting wheels are extremely durable, versatile and able to cut the hardest porcelain tiles or glass mosaic etc.

Basic low performances Carbide Cutting wheel for tile cutters cost approx $ 12 and professional Tungsten Carbide Titanium Coated incision cutting wheels costs approx $ 20.

Even if you are a Do It Yourself lover, considering the extremely small cost difference, it is recommend to use a Tungsten Carbide Titanium Coated incision cutting wheel.

The pictures shows a good look professional cutting wheel Titanium Coated. The best choice for your snap tile cutter.

How to choose the best tile cutter to buy

Here you have 5 simple rules useful to choose the best tile cutter for your installation.

1. Check where it's made. Made in Italy or Spain is often synonymous of high quality
2. If you have the possibility to choose between different models, choose the "one rail" tile snap cutter. One rail cutter grants you more power, better leverage etc.
3. Buy a titanium incision wheel. It is more performing and suitable for many more tile surfaces (it will last longer too)
4. Buy a push snap cutter. Pushing will give you more power and you'll control better your incision. Pull tile cutter are not ergonomic
5. Buy an aluminum frame tile cutter. It is easy to manage and transport and you won't have problems with corrosion.

These are universal rules, valid for any tiles and in any market. I could add many more information but I prefer to keep it simple and avoid confusion.

So, good luck if you are on the market for a brand new tile cutter!

One of the world’s most ancient snap tile cutter

Thanks to Luca from Sassuolo who has sent us the picture of this beautiful and extremely old tile cutter, probably made in France, a piece for a museum I'd say! As we see it is very small because many years ago tiles were much smaller than today, all the same and not very expensive.

Tile installers can also see that the incision wheels that make the incision on the tile surface are very large and the gap lever is short because still hard porcelain still didn’t exist and ceramics was very soft. Nice snap cutter anyway, very different from those we find today, which make much more use of technology and are can cut through very hard gres porcelain.

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