So it's settled then..

[spread95]

You don't twitcher , you twitch lol

Rare sight nowadays, have used one but never really got on with it.

 

[Deleted member 32554]

Rare sight nowadays, have used one but never really got on with it.

I've only used one for the past few years , still prefer doing opposites but if it's bang it on rate I give up

 

[spread95]

I've only used one for the past few years , still prefer doing opposites but if it's bang it on rate I give up

I meant the 3 sided one shown in the book, I do always use a corner trowel but we used to make our own with a slightly larger radius

 

[Deleted member 32554]

I meant the 3 sided one shown in the book, I do always use a corner trowel but we used to make our own with a slightly larger radius

Ah , my dad's got one of those , box trowels

 

[hector]

Ah , my dad's got one of those , box trowels

angle trowel bof

 

[Cockney]

Looks like the twitcher/angle trowel debate is sorted too.

That’s a box trowel, I’ve still got one. It’s all my grandad used.

 

[hector]

Its a hawk!!!! never herd the word hand board till I came on here I’ve been at it for 25 years stupid name I know but it’s a hawk

same here trippy, ....except i never heard it being called a hawk before until i came on this forum,...always but always called a handboard and i have been at it for 34 years,.....and when i mention this to other plasterers, well the looks i get , and the comments, ....no i dont believe you hector/ cant be/ something wrong with them, are just a few

 

[Steve Brown]

same here trippy, ....except i never heard it being called a hawk before until i came on this forum,...always but always called a handboard and i have been at it for 34 years,.....and when i mention this to other plasterers, well the looks i get , and the comments, ....no i dont believe you hector/ cant be/ something wrong with them, are just a few

Can’t believe that I for once agree with you Hector.
It must be a Northerner/ Southerner thing,
Rumour has it all Southern men sit down to piss like women!!

 

[hector]

Can’t believe that I for once agree with you Hector.
It must be a Northerner/ Southerner thing,
Rumour has it all Southern men sit down to piss like women!!

sooner or later you all come round to my way of thinking steve, .....just takes time , er lots of time

 

[Cockney]

 

[Retired Spread]

Can’t believe that I for once agree with you Hector.
It must be a Northerner/ Southerner thing,
Rumour has it all Southern men sit down to piss like women!!

and rumour has it all northern lasses stand up to piss like blokes

 

[superspread]

Technically it can be named or referred to as both Handboard or Hawk (it’s in the plasters bible)!
But I much prefer Handboard
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Millars book is the plastering bible not this comic

 

[Monkey Boy]

Mills Page and Morton book is the plastering bible

 

[MakeItSmooth]

and rumour has it all northern lasses stand up to piss like blokes

is that the same rumour that says they stuff their kebab in their cleavage, first, so they have both hands free to pull their flaps apart while they piss?

 

[BryanJ]

Technically it can be named or referred to as both Handboard or Hawk (it’s in the plasters bible)!
But I much prefer Handboard
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Would of thought you would have finished coloring your book by now, or did they take your crayons away again, stop putting them up your nose.

 

[Trppy]

Can’t believe that I for once agree with you Hector.
It must be a Northerner/ Southerner thing,
Rumour has it all Southern men sit down to piss like women!!

I always take a piss sat down take the weight of

 

[Olican]

I always take a piss sat down take the weight of

Same here, but for different reasons..

You shake a man's hand, little while later you go for a wee....
....take penis out..
....now that man's DNA is on your penis!

Whilst walking through park later in the day you pat a dog...
...you go for a wee,.
Take penis out..
Dogs DNA is on your penis...

..moments later you are hit by a bus and killed..
You are identified as a homosexual dog fiddler and will be remembered that way for evermore.
Remember kids; always sit down to wee

 

[MakeItSmooth]

Same here, but for different reasons..

You shake a man's hand, little while later you go for a wee....
....take penis out..
....now that man's DNA is on your penis!

Whilst walking through park later in the day you pat a dog...
...you go for a wee,.
Take penis out..
Dogs DNA is on your penis...

..moments later you are hit by a bus and killed..
You are identified as a homosexual dog fiddler and will be remembered that way for evermore.
Remember kids; always sit down to wee

 

[BobbyJack]

Always called it a hand board. Solely down to my beginning that's what everyone else called it. Well more than it was called a hawk. I always assumed the name hawk came because you hold it the same way you would use your arm for a perch when calling your hawk in falconry. Now I cant get Billy Casper and Kes out my head

 

[ChrispyUK]

It’s arrived

 

[ChrispyUK]

And there we go

 

[paulf]

And there we go View attachment 59168

No speedskim or flex trowels, bloody cowboys.

 

[ChrispyUK]

No speedskim or flex trowels, bloody cowboys.

haven’t go that far into the book yet

 

[BryanJ]

If it looks like a hawk, sells like a hawk then it must be a hawk.

 

[paulf]

haven’t go that far into the book yet

You'll love the plasterers at work drawings in the center.
@malc & @The Hobo in their prime.

 

[BryanJ]

J B Taylor 5th addition, is that the one where he falls off the scaffolding?

 

[ChrispyUK]

J B Taylor 5th addition, is that the one where he falls off the scaffolding?

haven’t got that far

 

[paulf]

haven’t got that far

Broken leg and a bent hawk, tragic.

 

[BryanJ]

He's setting out a Plasterers oval and trips over the gothic arch and lands on the springing line.
Or was it was suicided after he seen the NVQ qualifications.
Sad but true, that why there is no sixth addition.

 

[paulf]

He's setting out a Plasterers oval and trips over the gothic arch and lands on the springing line.
Or was it was suicided after he seen the NVQ qualifications.
Sad but true, that why there is no sixth addition.

Faked his own death and writes under the pseudonym Phil McCrackin.

 

[spread95]

And there we go View attachment 59168

Bet there's not many on here that know what some of those tools are for and certainly have never owned/used them, me included!

 

[MakeItSmooth]

Bet there's not many on here that know what some of those tools are for and certainly have never owned/used them, me included!

Luckily, I've never owned a small tool.

Unluckily, sometimes I am a tool...

Can't win 'em all!

 

[BryanJ]

Yes, you can manage without a small tool, until you need it.
A useful tool, if you can find it.
Always at the bottom of the water bucket. Or is it?

 

[spread95]

Got some dividers but never used them for plastering

 

[BryanJ]

Get yourself a trowel and square small tool, only about £5.00, you be surprised how much you will use it.