Description
The Comfort Pistol-Grip Cutter is a premium stained-glass hand-tool for making long cuts, either straight or curved, onto the surface of stained glass or larger glass tiles. If you like pistol-grip style cutters, and you do a lot of cutting, then this is the tool for you. The smooth handle body feels much nicer in the hand than the hollow plastic pistol grip cutters commonly available on the market. The cutting wheel is tungsten carbide, and is meant for glass that is between 3mm and 6mm thick, such as the stained glass we sell. The body of the handle is made of solid polyamid, and contains a cutting oil reservoir accessible at the end of the handle. The tool can be used with one hand when the glass sheet is laid on a non-slip surface.
Cutting Oil Not Required
We don’t typically use cutting oil, but for artists who prefer to use oil, this tool contains a small reservoir. The reservoir is accessible at the back of the tool with a flat-head screwdriver (not included).
Comfort Pistol-Grip Cutter
- scoring tool for cutting sheet glass
- 135° tungsten carbide cutting wheel
- ideal for glass 3mm to 6mm thick
- polyamide comfort hand grip serves as cutting oil reservoir
- narrower “neck” portion makes tool easy to hold
- brass fittings
- weighs less than 4oz
Do You Need This Tool For Mosaic Art?
The Comfort Pistol-Grip Cutter is a traditional stained glass tool, and is used for making long cuts. If you want to divide up a sheet of stained glass into fairly uniform square tiles, you could use this tool and a straight-edge ruler to cut the sheet into long strips and then cut the strips into tiles with a Mosaic Glass Cutter. However, mosaic art usually looks better when tiles aren’t uniform but instead are more irregular, and irregularly-shaped rectangles and triangles could be made using a Mosaic Glass Cutter without a stained glass cutter. In other words, this tool is not NEEDED for traditional mosaic work. On the other hand, if you want to make curved-shaped cuts in stained glass, this is the tool to use.
Snapping Apart Scored Glass
Stained glass cutters, like the Comfort Pistol Grip Cutter only score the glass; you need to snap the glass apart along the score. The best tool made for snapping apart scored glass is the Running Pliers hand tool, which has curved, padded jaws.
How To Make Mosaics
For more advice on designing your mosaic project or mounting, cutting, and grouting tile, please see our page of Mosaic Frequently Asked Questions or our Mosaic Information Guide, which lists instructional pages described by topic. We also post new articles about making mosaics at our How to Mosaic Blog.
