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Now we're getting to the fun part and that's breaking your tile. You want to make sure
you're wearing protective lenses while you break your tile. That's in case any shards
of tile are going to come towards your eyes. You also want to make sure you have a glove.
This is to protect your hand from any shards that might come at your hand. We're going
to start with one of the blue tiles. What you want to do is you want to put it glazed
side down, that's colored side down, into the palm of your hand. You'll take your tack
hammer and then you'll break it. One, clean, swift hammer. You can do it in the middle
of the tile or off to one of the sides if you want different shapes. You can practice
with different ways to break the tile. I'll show you now. Now, you see you've got a lot
of different sizes and shapes to work with. If you have a piece that you say is still
too big you can turn it over and just break it again. Depending on your type of tile they
may break differently. They may break into bigger or smaller pieces or the glaze may
break solid or jagged. I'm going to break one of the Mexican tiles just to show you
a difference. See how this one has jagged edges? You may like to keep it like that or
I'll show you later how we can smooth those edges if you want it to be nice and straight.