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Overheard a young apprentice in Tacoma call his trowel a 'spreader' and it took me right back to my first foreman's lessons on tool respect.
He said, 'A trowel's not just a spreader, son, it's your hand's best friend, and you keep it clean and sharp like one,' a simple truth that's stuck with me for forty years, so what's the one piece of advice an old-timer gave you that you still follow today?
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charles_baker2813h ago
Honestly, that's a float trowel, not a finishing trowel.
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torres.blair13h ago
What's the actual difference, @charles_baker28?
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eric_adams119h ago
Look at the two pictures, they're basically the same tool. Does the tiny shape difference actually matter for slapping mud on a wall? Seems like people just want to correct others for no real reason. Why do we need to gatekeep trowels so hard?
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