Wood or rubber handle

madmonk said:
What you prefer I'm just having slidey dilemma with the rubber handle was going to try wooden see how I get on thoughts
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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.
 
essexandy said:
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.
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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.
 
All my old trowel are wood heres two from the shed. Both marshaltowns one ss the other steel.
Wood or rubber handle
Wood or rubber handle
Wood or rubber handle
 
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
 
Vincey said:
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
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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.
 
paulf said:
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.
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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?
 
Vincey said:
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?
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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.
 
Cork lol. Thats on nella but prefer rubber these days . Used to have wood but think rubber makes it easier on hand personnally
 
essexandy said:
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.
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Never wore out a rubber handle either and we also do lots of sand cement. Depends on how you grip your trowel.
 
essexandy said:
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.
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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 trowels
No worries any way bud , I happy with my wood
 
Wood. Coz you can sand it “rough” to give a better grip, eventually it’ll be the exact shape of your hand.....mmmmm
 
Dropsalot said:
Wood. Coz you can sand it “rough” to give a better grip, eventually it’ll be the exact shape of your hand.....mmmmm
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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 all day I find the rubber ones either shrink or get compressed then my hand cramps, never get that with wood unless I sand the handle down which I used to do like a silly old t**t a,so rubber ones wear a groove where my thumb goes. Having said that I worked with a couple of brothers and they used to wear a thumb groove on wooden handles only spindley old buggers too
 
Well asked fork cork handle guess i didnt get cork doh . Year old n handles f**k*d. Anyone else had prob with nella
 

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