Need A New Trowel For Skimming, Suggestions??

Mt guarantee to stay flat,dont quite no exactly what they mean,as all mine go like bananas,
4 month old nela premium going that way.
Dont think there is a trowel that wont warp after use.
 
Marshy said:
The gold handled MT's are terrible. Any preworn trowel is shite. The nelas premium are very good but not wide enough the Refinas again very good but neither of them want me to sway from MT. Must admit i use Refina s*p*r*lex and plazzi at times to help
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Agree Nela could do with making a 5 inch width rather than a 4.75. That extra bit of girth makes all the difference :sorprendido3:
 
Donzo said:
Mt guarantee to stay flat,dont quite no exactly what they mean,as all mine go like bananas,
4 month old nela premium going that way.
Dont think there is a trowel that wont warp after use.
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Stop standing on thrm or using them as boomerangs (y) lol
 
I used my carbon mt on a set today, very happy with it it layed the set on nicely and I almost avoided running a second flatten over but I did through force of habit, the only thing that I didn't find good was the fact it started rusting up after 20 minutes. I've had it for over a year on sand cement work and it was still silver underneath and just black on top.

I think I'm definitely going to go for another mt but not a permashape pre worn b*ll***s one, and I want stainless. Marshalltown uk site seems to have some good deals on atm but if I get stuck ill definitely be taking @Marshy up on his offer if he doesn't mind!
 
Donzo said:
Mt guarantee to stay flat,dont quite no exactly what they mean,as all mine go like bananas,
4 month old nela premium going that way.
Dont think there is a trowel that wont warp after use.
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I'm starting to think that its scraping from metal handboard s that ate bent that does it!!!

My hand boards bent all over and I recon that's what does a lot of it!
 
Olican said:
Carbon steel Marshall town extra lite, whetstone, piece of slate and a barbers strop (get the strop and whetstone off eBay Amazon etc) spend an hour or so with it , soak in vinegar, clean off with a little bicarbonate, keep dry end of day , nothing better. Since I learned this off husbands choice @beddy and the very sexual @Hicky I have become obsessed with sharpening trowels. Been skimming industrial units with lots of metres, these sharpened trowels finish beautifully, second pass feels like your third [emoji106]
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That's how I get away with just 2 trowels then. It's the trowel. Great way of putting it mate. The second pass feels like your third. @Olican
 
roryston said:
I used my carbon mt on a set today, very happy with it it layed the set on nicely and I almost avoided running a second flatten over but I did through force of habit, the only thing that I didn't find good was the fact it started rusting up after 20 minutes. I've had it for over a year on sand cement work and it was still silver underneath and just black on top.

I think I'm definitely going to go for another mt but not a permashape pre worn b*ll***s one, and I want stainless. Marshalltown uk site seems to have some good deals on atm but if I get stuck ill definitely be taking @Marshy up on his offer if he doesn't mind!
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Just pm me which size you want and il get a price for you and if your happy il sort it for you :birra:
 
dsdave said:
Sharp as a razor after 20 yrs use
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I fell of a small stool yesterday, dropped my razor mt.
Luckily just missed my arm when fallen.
It certainly would have severed it.
One I won't forget in a hurry.
A old tradesman once to me if you are going down throw your trowel away.
Didn't have enough reaction time.
 
Need A New Trowel For Skimming, Suggestions??
 
Many years ago you could only get shite trowels, blokes in the know used a Tyzack 10 rivet double shank carbon steel trowel. The process was to wear it in on S/C then, when the corners and edge was worn off, make it your go to skim trowel and get another started. That time of day we still used real wooden crossgrain floats and them there new fangled pvu were "never gonna catch on"---------times change. All the best, Dropsalot.
 
Dropsalot said:
Many years ago you could only get shite trowels, blokes in the know used a Tyzack 10 rivet double shank carbon steel trowel. The process was to wear it in on S/C then, when the corners and edge was worn off, make it your go to skim trowel and get another started. That time of day we still used real wooden crossgrain floats and them there new fangled pvu were "never gonna catch on"---------times change. All the best, Dropsalot.
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I'm gonna go back to tyzack I think when my mt is nearing end had it for 7 years now and is just about right but I learnt with a cork handle tyzack and for some reason I wanna give it a go if crap I just use for floating
 
All I've got is an MT with red handle. Have used it for years on S&C and skimming. Had 2 but dropped one of top of chimney and broke it at the corner. Was f**k**g disgusted! Upgraded to speed skim and eze spat. Been using the 1200 eze spat last 2 weeks and very impressed thou still haven't got the hang of it fully.
 
hail hail said:
All I've got is an MT with red handle. Have used it for years on S&C and skimming. Had 2 but dropped one of top of chimney and broke it at the corner. Was f**k**g disgusted! Upgraded to speed skim and eze spat. Been using the 1200 eze spat last 2 weeks and very impressed thou still haven't got the hang of it fully.
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90% of my work now is site work..
The only wet plastering ive done is to fix the odd bay window or a bit of dabbing since christmas its just been skimming on the same site hail....im the only "skimmer"on there ...big morris home plots.
I use my speedskim when im on big sets on certain rooms or when im tired or hungover.....it doesnt save me time or make more money it just breaks the day up doing something different !!!
I find ive gotta run speedskim around the hit a few times when i could of just trowled it once !!
I havnt used a mt for skimming for years now just flexs.
Ive got a garage full of mts/buckets/cables/scrim/screws/straightedges/and beer !!!
 
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