Feather Edge

Rossi46 · Thursday at 7:11 PM

Humour me here, which side of a feather edge do you rule with? The flat side up or the bevelled side up? :coffe:

Spitandpolish · Thursday at 8:21 PM

Bevel side up but prefer a darby with the handles removed. Have a 12 foot straight edge for special occasions .

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:34 PM

Rossi46 said:
Humour me here, which side of a feather edge do you rule with? The flat side up or the bevelled side up?

Bevelled side up . When I lived in Devon them dumplings used it the other way y for some strange reason . They'd never used daddy's like us northern proper tradesmen. Ha ha

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:35 PM

Darbys

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:37 PM

Gets in angles easier

Rossi46 · Thursday at 8:40 PM

Well you’re all wrong

The bevel is so you can get into the corners with the flat edge. The hard edge rules much more accurate than a bevelled edge.

Rossi46 · Thursday at 8:41 PM

Think of a H rule, and a derby, all hard edges. The bevel on a feather edge is for ruling from hard angles.

Spitandpolish · Thursday at 8:43 PM

Rossi46 said:
Think of a H rule, and a derby, all hard edges. The bevel on a feather edge is for ruling from hard angles.

Did you learn that a the collage mate ???

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:43 PM

Does it bolloks ha ha

malc · Thursday at 8:44 PM

Bevelled side up, I have a very lightweight featheredge which I can twirl about very easy. Often when another plasterer is watching me they ask if they can have a feel of my featheredge?

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:44 PM

Rossi46 said:
Think of a H rule, and a derby, all hard edges. The bevel on a feather edge is for ruling from hard angles.

That's what I said how can the other side be more accurate it's the same rule ?¿

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:45 PM

malc said:
Bevelled side up, I have a very lightweight featheredge which I can twirl about very easy. Often when another plasterer is watching me they ask if they can have a feel of my featheredge?

Hallelujah ffs

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:46 PM

malc said:
Bevelled side up, I have a very lightweight featheredge which I can twirl about very easy. Often when another plasterer is watching me they ask if they can have a feel of my featheredge?

Yes so do I there the best for hardwall by a country Mile

Spitandpolish · Thursday at 8:47 PM

malc said:
Bevelled side up, I have a very lightweight featheredge which I can twirl about very easy. Often when another plasterer is watching me they ask if they can have a feel of my featheredge?

Do you let them feel it mate ?

Salfordspread · Thursday at 8:48 PM

Spitandpolish said:
Do you let them feel it mate ?

No that's more precious than his bowls set . Ha ha

ChrispyUK · Thursday at 8:48 PM

Had a really nice solid 6 foot ally feather edge that was in the van when it got pinched. Prob weighed in or someone at car boot got a bargain

malc · Thursday at 8:50 PM

Salfordspread said:
Darbys

The only time I use a Darby is for floating ceilings. A lot of plasterers use the H section on Hardwall.

malc · Thursday at 8:52 PM

Spitandpolish said:
Do you let them feel it mate ?

Yes , they are trying to float with a heavy featheredge.

spunky · Thursday at 9:03 PM

Rossi46 said:
Well you’re all wrong
The bevel is so you can get into the corners with the flat edge. The hard edge rules much more accurate than a bevelled edge.

Don’t think it’s anything to do with that mate more the angle you hold it to the wall

Rossi46 · Thursday at 9:05 PM

Spitandpolish said:
Did you learn that a the collage mate ???

Honestly I’ve always used the hard flat edge. I worked at the college and was reading City and Guild books and it said the same. Not something I’d seen for a long time but a good refresher looking through the books.
Then I saw a Kirk vid recently, top plastering geek.

@ 8 mins

Rossi46 · Thursday at 9:07 PM

spunky said:
Don’t think it’s anything to do with that mate more the angle you hold it to the wall

It’s a gammy angle to rule with the bevelled edge

spunky · Thursday at 9:09 PM

I use the bevelled edge never thought about it really
Does my head in when you’re working with someone who uses the other side and it gets doighty

spunky · Thursday at 10:07 PM

Rossi46 said:
Honestly I’ve always used the hard flat edge. I worked at the college and was reading City and Guild books and it said the same. Not something I’d seen for a long time but a good refresher looking through the books.
Then I saw a Kirk vid recently, top plastering geek.

@ 8 mins

He’s terrible with an edge sorry mate lol
He can’t hold them properly that does my head in, and when he ruled horizontally did he say he got that nice and flat then ruled right into the angle vertically he’s already got his screeds straight ?
I like him though he’s a top plasterer, full of informative knowledge, huge charisma, extremely generous, very inventive about new ideas
But we all know you’re not a plasterer till you’ve mastered a straight edge it’s the bosses way of keeping lads money down because they know they will ever do one hardwall job a year :sisi:

bobski · 2024-12-20T00:08:28+0000

Just use the f**k**g straight bit and close the thread

Monkey Boy · 2024-12-20T17:40:38+0000

Rossi46 said:
Well you’re all wrong
The bevel is so you can get into the corners with the flat edge. The hard edge rules much more accurate than a bevelled edge.

You lecturing on here?
Love it bring it on… the Rossi Xmas lectures

ChrispyUK · 2024-12-20T17:58:50+0000

If you think about it, if you use the bevelled edge, cus it’s at an angle, then it’s further from the front to the back edge so it will automatically compensate for excess gear being ruled off :coffe:

Rossi46 · 2024-12-20T19:52:49+0000

Monkey Boy said:
You lecturing on here?
Love it bring it on… the Rossi Xmas lectures

Nah it’s just a conversation I was having with another plasterer. Wanted to know what the consensus was on here.
b*ll***s to it, I don’t care.

malc · 2024-12-20T21:24:17+0000

ChrispyUK said:
If you think about it, if you use the bevelled edge, cus it’s at an angle, then it’s further from the front to the back edge so it will automatically compensate for excess gear being ruled off

You rule off then you rule in.

KingCharlesTheTurd · 2024-12-20T22:01:58+0000

spunky said:
He’s terrible with an edge sorry mate lol
He can’t hold them properly that does my head in, and when he ruled horizontally did he say he got that nice and flat then ruled right into the angle vertically he’s already got his screeds straight ?
I like him though he’s a top plasterer, full of informative knowledge, huge charisma, extremely generous, very inventive about new ideas
But we all know you’re not a plasterer till you’ve mastered a straight edge it’s the bosses way of keeping lads money down because they know they will ever do one hardwall job a year

top spread lol don't make me laugh he's just and ego w**k*r flogging his pink wonderstuff to the gullable mugs

KingCharlesTheTurd · 2024-12-20T22:05:27+0000

Salfordspread said:
Darbys

closest thing you've been to a darby is Man Utd / Man City you skimmer

paulf · 2024-12-20T22:12:12+0000

ChrispyUK said:
If you think about it, if you use the bevelled edge, cus it’s at an angle, then it’s further from the front to the back edge so it will automatically compensate for excess gear being ruled off

Rossi46 · 2024-12-21T06:09:51+0000

KingCharlesTheTurd said:
top spread lol don't make me laugh he's just and ego w**k*r flogging his pink wonderstuff to the gullable mugs

Is that his own gear that pink glue?

Salfordspread · 2024-12-21T09:16:25+0000

KingCharlesTheTurd said:
closest thing you've been to a darby is Man Utd / Man City you skimmer

Doubt it dickhead I watch rugby . Not pussies

spunky · 2024-12-21T10:13:03+0000

He seems one of the normal ones to me, the sbr thing does my head in everyone on YouTube thinks he’s reinvented the wheel, clever guy though anyone see the video when he took the floor up to secure the lathes that had popped

bobski · 2024-12-21T14:27:30+0000

Salfordspread said:
Doubt it dickhead I watch rugby . Not pussies

So true

I'm a football man.

I admire Rugby. I can't stand the game, but the players officials and fans are absolutely to be admired.

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