Tile setter's measuring tool

A tile setter's measuring tool comprising

• a cup slide in the form of an elongate bar having a thickness and a through extending passageway along a substantial proportion of its length and a pivot mount at one end,
• an object guide pivotally mounted to said pivot mount, and
• a tile cup block having an upper surface and a lower surfaces, channels on its upper and lower surfaces to selectively receive the cup slide and having a depth substantially the same as the thickness of said cup slide, said tile cup block being slidably engaged to said cup slide by a bolt passing through said passageway, said bolt having a head and said tile cup block including a countersunk hole to receive said bolt and bolt head, permitting positioning of said tile cup block at a desired orientation and location along said passageway, said upper and lower surfaces being provided with spacers in arrangements that differ from one another, one of said tile cup block spacers being provided as four dowels of a thickness of a desired grout thickness and arranged in a V-shaped right angle pattern, with two dowels on each side of the V, the V being bisected by a line parallel to said passageway in said cup slide and the other of said tile cup block spacers being provided as two dowels of a thickness of a desired grout thickness and arranged in a line perpendicular to said passageway in said cup slide and as extensions of two of said four dowels,
• whereby a tile setter may measure a needed tile size from an installed tile to a perimeter object by positioning the object guide adjacent the perimeter object and the tile cup block spacers on the lower surface adjacent an installed tile, reposition the tool to a tile to be measured with the spacers adjacent a tile edge and define a tile edge to be cut by the position of the object guide, the spacers providing an adjustment in the measurement to allow for a desired grout width.