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What you prefer I'm just having slidey dilemma with the rubber handle was going to try wooden see how I get on thoughts
Painful.Wood all day
I much prefer a wooden handle but most of my trowels have the rubber ones. I rarely see them for sale with the wooden handles and I never get round to ordering them separately.What you prefer I'm just having slidey dilemma with the rubber handle was going to try wooden see how I get on thoughts
No choice back in the past. It was solid wood back then.What you prefer I'm just having slidey dilemma with the rubber handle was going to try wooden see how I get on thoughts
I use to prefer tyzack trowels but liked the handle on marshaltowns. So would swap them over. Back then marshaltowns weren't as well made, they'd pop rivets long before a tyzack.I much prefer a wooden handle but most of my trowels have the rubber ones. I rarely see them for sale with the wooden handles and I never get round to ordering them separately.
Never really had a problem with either. With use they both get a gloss from constant use, more so with wood. With wood you can sand them back. My main trowel is rubber handled ss tyzack. Its a tyzack in name only, still like it though.Mine are wood much prefer wood , I use to have the rubber but they are crap like stainless steel
If you haven’t had a wood definitely give a mt carbon wood a try mate really nice feel
13inch id recommend too
Don’t know if it’s just me but rubber wears aware down to the metal at point of pressure in between v of thumb and first finger on the top of handle but wood doesn’t and feels better for me , smooth, light and solid tooNever really had a problem with either. With use they both get a gloss from constant use, more so with wood. With wood you can sand them back. My main trowel is rubber handled ss tyzack. Its a tyzack in name only, still like it though.
Its the same job but every plasterer will wear a trowel differently.Don’t know if it’s just me but rubber wears aware down to the metal at point of pressure in between v of thumb and first finger on the top of handle but wood doesn’t and feels better for me , smooth, light and solid too
Is it new tyzack?
Rubber for me.
I have never once worn out a rubber handle, even back when I was doing thousands of metres of S&C F&S.Don’t know if it’s just me but rubber wears aware down to the metal at point of pressure in between v of thumb and first finger on the top of handle but wood doesn’t and feels better for me , smooth, light and solid too
Is it new tyzack?
Never wore out a rubber handle either and we also do lots of sand cement. Depends on how you grip your trowel.I have never once worn out a rubber handle, even back when I was doing thousands of metres of S&C F&S.
Although I prefer a wooden handle the rubber can't seem that bad to me or I would make sure to get a wooden one, and I never have.
I reckon that's a faulty handle mate as it doesn't even look remotely worn out apart from that bit of gold plastic grinning through. I have them way more worn without the centre piece showing.Tbf probably is how I hold it or something
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Seriously mate I must of had 7 lime it over time I been plastering even @Rossi46 commented a few years ago about how worn rubber was on my trowelsI reckon that's a faulty handle mate as it doesn't even look remotely worn out apart from that bit of gold plastic grinning through. I have them way more worn without the centre piece showing.
when I served my time we made our own wood floats for rubbing up etc the handles where cut out rough shape by joiners and we finished it off with a broken milk bottle shaving it to shape anybody remember that?Wood. Coz you can sand it “rough” to give a better grip, eventually it’ll be the exact shape of your hand.....mmmmm
I do we used to cut them out of a bit of pine and sand them down, I was never trusted with glass still not at sixtywhen I served my time we made our own wood floats for rubbing up etc the handles where cut out rough shape by joiners and we finished it off with a broken milk bottle shaving it to shape anybody remember that?