I spent $80 on a trowel and thought it was dumb until last week

Honestly, I always used the cheap $10 trowels from the general store. Last month I finally bought a Marshalltown pointing trowel for about $80 and thought I'd wasted my cash. Then we were working on a super delicate Roman floor mosaic in York, and the cheap one kept scraping the edges. The Marshalltown's sharp, thin blade let me clean the tiny tesserae without any damage at all. Has anyone else had a tool totally change how you handle fragile finds?

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wren23017h ago

My cheap brush once sent a pottery shard flying like a bad frisbee toss.

gavin_kim23h ago

Watched a buddy struggle with a cheap dental pick on a fragile clay seal. He finally got a proper set of fine tools and the difference was night and day. The right gear just lets you work instead of fight the material.

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bailey.jennifer22h ago

Honestly, cheap tools just make everything ten times harder than it needs to be.