Bricklaying 101 - #6 mortar joints
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That's right. Their business model is questionable, but they are doing alright.
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The top one might be a gauging trowel, and the bottom one is a bucket trowel which is a handy tool when knocking up a small gauge in a bucket.
Like no manhole I've ever seen. Ahem......
I use a bucket trowel when I do block work. I must retrain and do it correct way.
Is that like a JCB bucket?
Now we are back to the way some of these other guys are doing their work.
How are you supposed to get the digestive biscuits out of your teeth with those shaped trowels? Classic case of designers not understanding their product. The R&D department must be on a low budget.
I'm not a bricklayer by trade, but I do lay a few thousand bricks and blocks every year. I use a gauging trowel over a normal brick/mason's trowel as I usually work with the mortar dumped into big plastic flexi tubs where the shorter length and round nose makes it easy to get all the mortar out. Out of habit I still use one when working from a board. What is the disadvantage to using one? Is it only the speed?
They are about as wieldy as a dinner plate. Fine for scooping muck out of a container but completely bereft of any finesse.
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