CHEAPEST TROWEL ON AMAZON 

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Its so relaxing watching and listening to Kirk in these videos. Plus he is always positive and in good humour.

Very enlightening, have never realised a trowel needed a sharp cutting edge. Many thanks, Paul

You've just backed up what I've always said. It's not the tools it's the hands that's using them 😂 Nice job Kirk.

You'd get a better finish with an old piece of stick than I could with the best trowel in the world. My Dad used to say "a poor workman blames his tools". Great to watch a skilled tradesman at work and enjoy your videos - thank you!

😂. Good video. Next video….. left handed day… every thing is done left handed 🙃

After watching a few plastering videos I was starting a DIY project. I went out and bought the best I could afford - a marshalltown 16” thinking this would get me great results. Long story short it was too big for my weak arms and I sold it 2 years later for more than I paid 😂 I have a 13” OX now which is better for me

Great video. You can see how much knowledge you have when you explain things even I can understand, your passion for the art shows! Thanks again

Love watching your videos.. thank you for sharing all the info !! Much appreciated

Great video Kirk. Job well done.

Great vid again Kirk, loving the music. I’ve never been so “on edge” keep em coming mate you’re a legend

Great video, i really enjoyed that. I'm not a plasterer but i used to work for my dad who's is a general builder who does a lot of plastering.

Thing is, regardless if the trowel is cheap or expensive, it is how experienced someone is. You can give an expensive trowel to and amateur or someone who lacks skill, and give a cheap one to someone who has passion and talent, and the results will speak for themselves. Remember, expensive trowels weren't around when they built some of the most sophisticated buildings thousands of years ago, so all this branded stuff is basically marketing. Sure we have evolved with gimmicks and tools but the fact remains, if someone has the capacity and desire to do a good job then they'll do it with a butter knife if they had to.

That’s Kirk’s Xmas present sorted 👍😊

Just a tip for you. Many people will go straight to the description looking for a link to that trowel, and you can put an Amazon affiliate link in the which will give you a little money for every time someone buys the trowel from your link. That's what most guys showing products are doing, and people just expect it

Love the edits 😂😂😂 videos are always quality and thought out 👏👏👏🤝

I really thought that you were about to throw it out of the window at one point 😂 well done mate for remembering what your Dad told you

Hi Kirk, hope all is well and good mate I’ll get that from useing a marshal town,,,,,,,,, very good video keep them comeing buddy as helps me get through my treatment watching them, thanks again Kirk. Woody

Kirk, your definitely someone I could go to the pub with and have a pint

Great idea mate 👍

Good video. But as a tip to all you budding skimmers out there. I had my first Reno to do, had a m8 who is a plasterer help me for 4 ceilings and take me thru the motions. I bought an Ox pro 16in trowel and an 18" ox pro flex. a plastic speedskim and stainless speedskim. Had a different m8, who is a very good plasterer come round and he looked at the 20+ walls i did and said i saved myself at least 10k and job was comparable to a 'decent' plasterer. The tools were like 300. Get good tools

Brilliant video mate I'd like to see another video like this but if you can, don't wear it in. For some people who want to try plastering they may have to use it as it comes. Definitely not at a customers house but maybe build a false wall and put on some boards in the shed? Even if it's difficult to get a good finish it would be interesting to watch! 👍

Your vids are great mate!

It's a great trowel that . For scraping floors 😂😂

youre class mate keep it up i want to learn to plaster starting in mine

Great video👍🏻 I hope you’ve left an honest review on Amazon and a link to this video 😂

Great fun!

Ha ha ha what a video Kirk has found he's forever trowel he will never pick up a marshall town again. Funny enough you got a decent finish though but I think it was the bloke behind the trowel more than the trowel itself. 😂

Hilarious..🤣🤣..brilliant, loved it 🙌 Speaks for itself, it’s only as good as the person using it..!! I was actually thinking you had been abducted 🤣🤣..good see you back. And not forgot about computer build..will be seeing him weekend. 👍🏻😁

Awesome vid, you should do an OX vs Marshalltown comparison

Nice one 👍

I've no idea what your doing 😅 but find it quite relaxing 👍

Nice one Kirk but you've just broke the old saying "a work man is only as good as his tools" your skill & experience just blew that saying out of the water 🤣🤣

looks ok,a good tradesman will be able to use it ,a bit like the original ragni lol ,nice one kirk,please give it another try out ...skim a 10m2 ceiling mate.

Feel like it’s been a while. Great content as always 👍🏽👌🏽

Well done Kirk; I reckon the coke and a flap disc cost as much as the trowel, its all Good fun

I liked it but why wouldnt you have taken ol trusty trowel along for Justin….Justin case!

I used an 11” £5 wickes trowel for years and years , , Marshal towns permashapes were a new concept then, ragni, tyzac whatever you got , they all needed bedding in , I only changed to mt when bonding and then hardwall came up more and they eat in to them carbons like mad if you leave it set and got sick of washing the saviour wd40 off . I got some Nela’s nowadays they are good nicer grip then Refina’s . Agreed this with modern ones a super flex or so a newbie can make a good go at from the offset if they can manage to get it on the wall, I used to 1200 mine every weekend I do not miss those days 😂😂

I bought two Marshall town qlt from toolstation a few weeks ago mate and sharpend them up with a stone. There mint now an only cost £13 and £15. Bargain. Great vids mate

When I was on the tools , in order of preference, Disston , Tyzak then Marshalltown, use it as your second trowel and use on sand and cement, until broken in. And they used to come in their own box 😂

Trowels with thinner steal are good for skimming like this cheap one. Ragni trowels have thinner steal and they polish up skim brilliantly. I use MT but worked with an old plasterer about 12 years ago who only used Ragni for skimming.

Test a chickens foot next!

@onthetrowel - You've probably just caused Amazon to sell out of this trowel 🤣🤣🤣

Love this video matey . just wanted to no why u was feathering it in 6” from floor.? can get amazing finishes with a flooring trowel tilers trowel even a bricklayer trowel with a spot welded bar across to handle . All flex plastics speeds ect have there place to pull the pennys in faster . but let’s see who can make the flattest wall using anything but ya everyday plastering trowels . would be a good Competition to see wot u can make work and make a flat wall using anything but our daily Weapons would be a good show love the work fella keep it up god bless

I've got a cheap and nasty trowel much like that one. The handle snapped eventually. My plastering is bad (much like the wobbly job you were covering up) but nice to hear that I can at least partly blame the tools. It would have been good to have a bit more detail on the mechanics of the edge bevelling and what it is about a better trowel that makes it work better.

I had this tool. The handle snapped off mid use 😂. I was using it to level off a concrete foundation, applying next to no force.

How's it going kirk mate, can I skim onto ceramic tiles or will I need to put on a skim of hardwall with pva first, thanks mate, LEGEND 🤓👍

That new window is 25mm short in the height. Covered by a trim inside to the head !

Have that exact trowel, I use it for external beading. That's about all it's good for 🤣

Before I've watched, if anyone can you can Kirk. Now to watch.

I’m a slater to trade so learned how to use hawk n trowel doing rough casting I’ve worked with plasterer’s done a bit plastering always use the marshalltown for plastering with speed skim and big flex trowel I can plaster and leave a good job but compared to a plasterer I’m a amateur done plastering maybe once a year 😂 1 my old tradesman when was a 2nd year apprentice was a plasterer old guy would come in at 8 in the morning drunk carrying bag a cans I’d get him weed at lunchtime old guy could hardly speak and could leave a good job with 1 they cheap trowels

Just a silly question why are do all mid range and above trowels not have a standard sharpness added as std

My first attempt plastering was with a B&Q £10 trowel, managed to get the plaster on the wall ok but couldnt do any kind of presentable finish. Spoke to a plasterer about it and he said he wouldnt even use it to clean his tools.

Old trowls are the best..they curl and form to youre hand

Do you do anything with your normal trowels when you first get them?

Try a nela trowel im a drywall taper and do some plaster repairs just small ones tho i cant go back to Marshalltown after using the Nela Trowel.

what would have been nice is to see an expensive trowel put through the exact same process and how it does.

Regal Barnes one of the best trowels I have ever used ,to me way better and marshal town and a lot cheaper

Great vid. Enjoyed it. Are you gonna raffle it off lol! Btw what should you look for in a Darby. I bought a magnusson one from screwfix and the edge is blunt not like a trowel at all. Is this normal? Cheers Kirk.

I've used one of these and it is so uncomfortable to hold, did it wreck the skin on any of your fingers?

You gonna be using that from now on then mate?😂😂 Great vid👍

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A good tradesman never blames his tools, although that trowel is crap after 40 years of plastering I could do a good jpb with that trowel

Plasterer here this is absolute bollocks .bad tradesman and all that

Isn't sharpening the edges up going against the title of the video? Shouldn't you have used it straight from the box for the benefit of the experiment ? 😂

It has to be ok for small diy jobs. The one I got from Lidl is even cheaper than yours. Add the price of a bottle of coke and a sheet of sandpaper and I’m quids in.

Dabbing trowels only them 😂

Should have searched amazon before spending 75 quid on my knew trowel

What part of Merseyside you from mate, had a teacher sounded exactly like you many years back proper spitting image 👍🏻

Your biggest mistake was 'trying' to Break The Trowel IN! .... It's why already 'Broken In' New Marshaltown's are a Con. .... There's nothing wrong with a new trowel if the bend in the blade is the right way - As You Said - Better still 'No Bend' - But forcing a trowel to be broken in is a waste of time - You'd STILL have gotten a decent finish if you hadn't gone through all that rigmarole ... Made a good video though 👍🤠

This bloke could plaster with a spoon and still get it flat.

Hi Kirk, Did you ever think about designing your own plastering trowels, handles etc.....

You have probably answered this question a million times, but for a diy inexperienced plaster what trowel would you recommend? Keep looking at a MT 13inch but not sure it’s overkill for me.

Tbh I don’t even care about plastering but you make it interesting and your dry humour makes it enjoyable. Natural behind the camera ✌🏻

kirk what's best trowel to use s.steal or carbon u seem to like the carbon ones

Good video Kirk. Why didn’t you go all the way down to the bottom and instead chose to blend?

It got rave reviews, 4.4 stars out of 5. Who needs a Marshalltown?!

Bad workmen blame their tools.

Really should be wearing eye protection when grinding metal.

I understand the difference between a trowl that has been used for 20+ years and a new one. I have my own trowl, but still my dads feels more comfortable, simply because it's been used more, but i know that if i dont use my trowl more than it. defeats my point of having my own trowl. the point is, you each have your own way of working thing out, if you don't realize that y

Do u polish up your plaster with flexi trowels or lay on and polish with ya Marshall Town that's for any plasterers who read this thank u

Hi Kirk, great channel. You know the UK imports about 60 Billion quids worth of goods from China each year, the country has huge potential which is good and bad.

Bouncy handle is for anti shock lol

What do they say about blaming the tools? 😁 If you are struggling with it, anyone else has got no chance

New dabber

I don't understand why you would blend in 6 inches from the bottom of the wall?

i would of binned it after first use and sacked video off 😂

Get the Marshall Town out 😅😅

Can buy a Marshalltown £25 Vauxhall Market…..Nine Elms Wandsworth Rd’ London every tool in the building trade every Sunday..

I did plastering for 20 years and always used marshall Town. My very first trowell was a cheap one from B&Q and my mentor threw it out a window and gave me marshall town trowell 😂😂😂😂 then said if you want to go get a paper round go get that peice of crap out there, but if wanna sucide and be a decent spread at least buy the right gear 😂😂😂😂

impressive skill, but machine-type walls are a bit soul-less. how about bagging for a more interesting texture?

The coke and vinegar!! What was all that about and why didn’t you explain at length easily the most interesting part of the video!

Whats point of blending in 10 inch from floor?

Only one s in DECISION, other than a good video , if not slightly too long .

Ice scrapper

Why don't manufacturers "pre-wear in" trowels?

so saying its terrible... why? why does it do or not do that your 70 quid one does different? to explain to us newbies

I could shave with my 20 year old Marshalltown.

U moving so fast the video fogged up 😊

Ye should of used a shovel