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Regular wet saw blade is fine. Avoid slithers or the metal caps will come away from the ceramic and you'll need to glue 'em back on!
 

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Also (depending on the finish on the mosaics) check your grout on an off cut - some scratch real easy, Mapei's fine grout was too scratchy but their super fine grout was okay.
 
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Well if they're meshed backed, wet cutter wouldn't be advisable, it'll wreck the backing.
Last one I did I used a thin metal blade on a grinder.
 

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I've done 4 last year on mesh - they're fine. Another tip is the blade might burr the edge so after the cut just angle it into the blade to take it off
 
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Here is the last job I did using metal capped mosaics. Mapeiglitter grout which tried its hardest to scratch the metal! I had to cut the metal on the shower tray plinth, killed my ATS turbo blade by the end, but was worth it

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If you end up having to cut slithers the metal caps will come off no matter what you cut them with - most are spot glued in the middle.
Lovely bathroom that Plan tec.
This is a kitchen I did last year

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