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I have a retaining wall that could use some finishing touches. I've specifically avoided putting caps on it because the wall itself has a changing curvature over about a 15-foot span, and so each cap would have to be custom cut. Short of renting a masonry saw, how big of a PITA is it to make straight cuts in 3-5 inch cap blocks?
Are the masonry blades for a circular saw worth anything? Is it easier just to score them and then hit with a chisel to split?
I'll post pics when it's all done, but this is really the last major bit of the back deck project, and after 2 years, I'm itching to get it finished off.
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I used a masonry blade on the circular saw. For the paver brick work I plan on a combination of the circular saw again and a masonry blade on the angle grinder. Oh, and beer
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Scoring about 3/16 deep and whacking with a BFH and chisel seemed to give me the split face effect I was after while keeping a straight line at the break. I just used the circ saw. As I was buying the masonry blade it did occur up me that the angle grinder probably would have accomplished the same thing. I never think if that out of the context of metal.
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Probably. I was just going straight, though.
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Ah. Then circular saw away!
