Cutting stoneware?

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So, my mum has the last bits of her dinner set that she bought about 25 years ago; a couple dinner plates, salad plates, a billon teacups because we never used them. She's finally getting rid of them, and has bought herself a nice, new, modern set, with heafty red mugs with a HUGE handle (no more teacups for this lady!).

However, the set is 25 years old, so of course she's a little sad about seeing it go. Since she's planning on just chucking the plates - they're old and scratched and whatnot - I'd really like to sneakily bring them back into the house and cut them up to fashion a bracelet of sorts for her.

Now, I have no idea how one would set shards of pottery - I've been looking online, but you get either a whole lot of people selling, or fantasy RPG games, shard is a fantasy word, don'cha know - but before I even get to THAT I'd have to cut the stoneware.

Oh, did I forget to mention that this is Denby stoneware we'll be cutting up today? This stuff is made of nails, not a word of a lie. I once dropped a dinner plate and it managed to hit the floor, hit it at such an angle that it bounced up a wee bit, and broke my toe. Broke my toe off the bounce. And didn't crack.

So, how exactly would I go about cutting up stoneware AND if you have the know-how, how exactly do I set pottery shards for jewellery and whatnot?

(icon just because I'm 8 and find it hilarious)