Carbon BLOODY Steel 

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What usally happens these days when you leave a great finish, the painter then comes in and uses's a long hair roller to cover it all up. Probably best to get your work nice and flat, and not polish it, just leave the plaster with slight key for the paint to stick better.

First thing I do with a new trow, is scrape the edges/corners on the pavement in the street, then It's broken in and ready for use inside 5 minutes, my dad showed me this, he was a plasterer all his working life.

Hi - I was a plasterer for a profession around 10 years ago, I have 3 trowels(don't remember the lengths, but my Stainless steel Marshall town is I believe a 12/13inch, then I have 2 Carbon's - 16/18/20 inch I dont remember)...The reason I have 2 "longer ones" is that the first got a slight dent. The point of this background is, I have RARELY oiled or cared for my carbon trowels, and the first(dented) trowel wasn't used for around 7 years other than the odd private job every couple of years. The 2nd one I bought as I got a private job back in the first lockdown, 2020, haven't touched it since. Probably didn't oil it when I put it away. IF you'd be interested in seeing the condition of these trowels let me know I can send you some pictures.(I.e, what a carbon steel trowel that has been in use for around 15 years but barely been used/cared for for the last 10 years, and one that was used for 1 job then not cared for for 3 years look like after all that time/neglect).

I started out with a tyzack carbon steel trowel, great trowel.49 years ago and steel going,me not the trowel😅

For rust prevention I've switched from WD40 to Fluid Film, it's better. I wish I did it earlier, one difference is that is last much longer. I use it for all my tools. I have a CS margin trowel I hardly use for mortar, used it, cleaned it, dried it and put Fluid Film on it, years later it is all fine.

Spent my 1st ten years with carbon steel Marshall town trowels with wooden handles as these was all there was and then came the stainless revolution with the durosoft handles 23 years of this and I would never go back to carbon. I always found the carbon trowels were cleaner as like you say had a bit of grip . Glad to see a lot of the younger lads are trying carbon though😁👍

Evapo-rust is the business for rust removal, expensive but goes long way and makes managing wet carbon steel tools lot less hassle. Hammerite Kurust good value rust convertor, gives nice blue hue to the steel.

i love my nela carbon, i have nearly 40 trowels i have only used my nela carbon for over a year now, and its great not to over complicate things with multiple trowels trying to find “the perfect finish”

Thanks for the information. I’m a knife nut so like looking after carbon steel :-) my diy Marshalltown carbon steel gets sharpened and treated regularly 😂

Love my carbon permashape all day long 👍

A while ago I went back to just a 13 mt,18 mt carbon steel and a plastic speedskim.Tool bag weighs bugger all now and the finish is mustard.

Mines pretty new. It's leaving a lot of lines still. Until firming up.

Ive flitted between carbon and stainless steel over the years but i agree carbon is the better.

Just brought an old wooden handle tysak carbon steel 14 inch trowel back to life with vinegar and it’s the nuts

They are lush better than any flexi

Good man

Smashing video pal. How you finding the finatex ?

Great video mate . Remember using carbon at college and got Great results. Would you recommend 14 inch carbon permashape ? I don’t think MT do a 13 in permashape . Thanks

Marshalltown 14 all day

WD40 ain't oil

I’ve got well broken in carbons and stainless but only have my stainless got coloured render and backups carbon is superior

So is that the 13” Xtra Lite?

Hi Alex, great work with the channel, taught me a lot. I'm so grateful thank you. Using a cheap Wickes trowel, ox speedskim and refina superflex2 I did a decent job of my son's bedroom 11 months ago. The Wickes trowel is clearly carbon as it's got rust but its still held up good without use. I'm now moving onto rest of my house. I'm wanting the best finish possible so I'm going to try sponge floating, especially as some of the work will include bonding. What would you recommend for the best finish and speed of application, 1 stick with the Wickes trowel as it's been broken in a little, 2, Get a Marshalltown carbon as it's a better trowel and breaks in quick? Or how does the Marshalltown stainless steel compare to the carbon in applying the plaster? If it's just as easy as the carbon would my superflex, deal with the stainless steel drawbacks? Reason for the last question is im not sure how much I'll plaster after doing my house, so maybe stainless steels better. but I'm more interested in making my plastering easier with a better finish and I'm happy to deal with maintaining the carbon.

Trowels, is this going full circle. Used marshalltown carbons 25+ years ago. Used 11" x 4" size back then. Just got another carbon and finish is loads better. Old school rules

With the carbon steel it doesn’t have to b a rust bucket when u come back to it after a year it just depends on where and how u store it granted if it’s in ur shed for a year ur right it’ll b pitted bad but if u store it in ur house in a cupboard slightly oiled it’ll b fine for a year there won’t b the condensation problem going on

I’ve got an array of carbons now, thanks too this guy😂.. in my opinion they are 100 times better than stainless.

Great Video! Does this mean that using a carbon steel trowel will eliminate the need for a Flexi trowel?

Baby oil in garden spray bottle. It's just mineral oil . WD 40 is toxic and not nice... Interesting video

Someone need to go ahead to ahead with the stainless lol

Normally only this early with the misses

Hi Alex, do they not make a pre-worn carbon steel? Thanks.

can you do a video on the 18inch carbon steel mate

Does anyone have a link for 14" C Nela that is in stock? Gold dust 👀

Never tried carbon

flexing on a 14" lol