Bedding in a new trowel

[PhilPlaster]

Whos Mr Refina ? :-*

 

[beddy]

its my surname. i meant they are 10 inches

 

[irish_spread]

Not too sure about the width of it though. Its 5" and im used to 4n half, It just seems dead wide in my hand. I am still talikin about trowels by the way :

refinas are 4 and a half

Im an old fekker and kinda stuck in me ways, darn sarf no one has ever
heard of refina and we think it might be a trap so u lot capture us top spreads
when we go oop north to buy a re branded B+Q trowel

 

[beddy]

refina is darn sarf. richs neck of the woods i think mate

 

[PhilPlaster]

Arent refina's the ones with a black plastic handle? Their the pits mate. I took the permashape back, the one I had had been machined to fook and had loads of lines in it. Left loads of marks on the wall when I tried to final trowel. Thought sod that for a game of soldiers, sanding it down, took it back and got a normal marshaltown 14x4 3/4. Cheaper by £12 as well.

 

[beddy]

no the black handle ones are ragni mate. refina are blue handles

 

[PhilPlaster]

Thats it, those ragni ones should go straight in the bin.

 

[beddy]

Thats it, those ragni ones should go straight in the bin.

we use them for dabbing, and scraping stairs down

 

[Gibbo]

best trowel ever was a make called diston fom canada i think worked with a guy back in the day had one

 

[beddy]

best trowel ever was a make called diston fom canada i think worked with a guy back in the day had one

the bloke i work with told me about them. came in a wooden box he reckons?!

 

[PhilPlaster]

Thats what you'll be leavin in on Kirks stag do ;D

 

[skimmin2day]

A few months ago i had a load of fire boards fall in the van onto my polishing trowel,it was fuc k ed.
so i wnet out and bought a tyzack ready to go trowel, i gave it a few licks over the oil stone along each edge and round the corners a little more than they were set and and it trowel up a treat.
the permashape i think are a bit to rigid,i like a lot of flex in my trowel for the final trowel atleast.

 

[beddy]

A few months ago i had a load of fire boards fall in the van onto my polishing trowel,it was fuc k ed.
so i wnet out and bought a tyzack ready to go trowel, i gave it a few licks over the oil stone along each edge and round the corners a little more than they were set and and it trowel up a treat.
the permashape i think are a bit to rigid,i like a lot of flex in my trowel for the final trowel atleast.

kirk dingle said he uses a tyzack but has to buy a new one every couple of years?!

 

[PhilPlaster]

I was gonna swop the permashape for a Tyzack but they were all bashed in.

 

[PhilPlaster]

Gave the new marshaltown the once over with the diamond stone and was good to go. Polished up the walls sound enough, just gonna work on it for a bit and keep it as an emergency back up.

 

[ziggy2]

Use it on your backing coats to help break it in and then when needed it'll be ready for use, I bought a Tyzack premier last year with that in mind but it's that good to use I've been using it as my main trowel since, it's sort of replaced a MT permashape well broken in, when I get it out it feels huge in width!