Make a Simple Brick-Cutting Jig
This handy device works by shearing a brick between a fixed angle iron and a masonry chisel.
Experienced masons can cut a brick quickly and accurately with just a mason’s hammer. But for us amateurs, there’s a better way.
Will Foster of Aberdeen, Wash., came up with this jig for cutting bricks. The heart of the jig is a piece of heavy-duty angle iron with the edge filed to make it a bit sharper. The angle iron is sitting on a piece of 6×6 pressure-treated lumber and held in place by a pair of angled 2x4s. A 1x aligned with the sharpened edge of the angle iron serves as a cutting guide for the masonry chisel.
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Just a couple taps with a brick hammer on each face of the brick will do the same thing...and is a whole lot faster. It really isn't rocket science.
That's what I thought. if I did that method above for all the cuts I've done on bricks I would have been in the looney bin by now. Like the person said above, 2morweeks. That's all you have to do to cut bricks.