b'TECH TALK outsideofthetilewithasharpie and then use a grinder and remove thesharpiemark.Oncethescribe is completed I take a diamond pad or sanding disc to ease over the cuts andmakethemlooksmoothand finished, taking all of the chips out of the scribed area. I have found that precutting the area and overlaying is by far the easiest method to use when scribing.McDanieldidntalwaysusethis method. The first scribe I ever did wasapebblescribe,hesaid.I madetemplatesusingwaxpaper, whichwasgruelingandtimecon-suming, and not as accurate as over-layingandtracing.Overlayingand tracing allows you to set the field tile first,lettingthatareadry.Coming backinthenextdayandsetting yourscribemosaicallowsyouto make the transition between field tile and mosaic tile perfectly flush, as it should be.Tierra Tiles Joshua Nordstrom starts any scrib-ing joblike this octopus figure he calls The Kraken with a scaled drawing that gets blown up with a overhead projector and traced life size on a Tyvek canvas. Once its all col-ored and labeled, he goes over it with tracing paper creating each individual template. After everything is cut and installed on a fiberglass mesh he lays the mosaic over the field tile, traces it out and scribes it in.LATICRETE SPECTRALOCK PRO epoxy grout combined with SPECTRALOCK DAZZLE adds the finishing touch that allows the figure to glow in the dark. 98TileLetter | September 2019'