True-Cut Multi Angle Brick & Block Cutter

"It's by far the best brick/ block cutter, beautiful clean accurate cut"

Noel Marshall - Bricky Inventor

The Story:
An inspired brick cutting device that eliminates waste and overcomes the lack of precision and repeatability of conventional brick cutting techniques. It makes consistent high quality cuts with several bricks, reducing the amount of time and effort involved.

Inventor:
Paul Bonner, Ireland

Paul Bonner has had a close working relationship with bricks all his life. A professional brick layer from Derry in Northern Ireland he’s worked on a countless number of building sites, and over the years he noticed time and again that there are a number of stumbling blocks when using bricks to construct buildings.

On occasion it is necessary to cut bricks to a specific required size, for example at the end of a wall. Bonner, like all builders was using methods that had served the industry reasonably well for generations; either using a hammer directly to knock a brick into shape or using it to hit a chisel that has been positioned at the desired spot. The problems with these approaches are that they lack precision, are not repeatable, and waste a lot of material. In addition, the size of the cut should always be measured and marked, which is a time-consuming process.

Frustrated by the time factor and by the amount of waste that these methods generated, Bonner was convinced that there must be a better solution. He decided to see if he could do better and came up with the True-Cut Brick and Block Cutter. It is a time-saving and cost effective way of cutting bricks down to size and means that individual bricks no longer have to be marked and measured to perform repeated cuts. The tool just has to be set the once, then it can cut as many times as is necessary. Adjustable bars allow a user to measure the required length, the blade can be locked at many angles in 15 degree increments, and the entire device can be positioned over any brick which means there’s no longer any need to measure every single one. To make the cut you simply hit the spring-loaded bolster with a hammer. It is a robust little tool, being made from ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) and according to Bonner his invention cuts brick wastage by up to 50%.

Although there are devices already in the market place which reduce the risk of making uneven and inaccurate cuts they do not reduce the time factor because measuring is still involved. They also have two blades which pushes the price up.
Bonner’s brick cutter is also a significant step forward in making construction sites a safer place. Its overall design means that a builder’s hand doesn’t have to be close to the spring-loaded bolster when bearing down on it with a hammer.

Prototype and Patent Application; The clever contraption started life on Bonner’s sketchpad in 2004 and he already had a good quality prototype and had filed for a UK patent application when he approached British inventor Trevor Bayliss whose company helps inventors to commercialise their innovations. They helped him to file an additional design registration and found him a manufacturer who was so impressed by his idea, that they immediately snapped it up through a licensing agreement, and took it from late phase prototype to mass volume production. It was ready for sale in 2007, and has been flying of the shelves of DIY stores in Ireland, Holland, the UK, and it has also been a popular item on the QVC shopping channel. Bonner’s brick cutter is fast becoming an essential addition to every builder’s toolkit.

Powerful Endorsement; The True-Cut Brick & Block Cutter has also had powerful endorsement from the Federation of Master Builders: "I am delighted that Paul has discovered and invented a brick cutting tool, says Maire Devlin, FMB Northern Ireland Regional Director. “This simple but effective device will I'm sure be of benefit to many brickwork specialists in the industry".

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