i have been working more with the glass snapper. oh, how i wish it would have been THE tool that i need for this technique! but, alas, it is not. however, it is a handy little tool... and so inexpensive, too. unfortunately, i have not been very successful with it for the small pieces, and especially when the glass is a bit thick... which the van gogh glass often seems to be lately. and i don't know why, but it seems to have trouble cutting the triangles. also, for the thousands of pieces that i need to cut for a project like this, i am doubtful that it will hold up. i can see the head of it wearing down already.

this is too bad. it could cut very cleanly, although i really needed to make sure that the center point of the breaking head was directly over the score. of course, this is also a bit of a complication because i can't always see my score lines that well... it depends on the tile. at this point, i am going to stick with my modified tile plier.

i have not mentioned running pliers: they will work pretty well on the bigger cuts, but not on the smaller cuts.