Brick Trowel

denick

Do you have a favorite brick trowel? length? Handle material? Other charecteristics? etc.

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Tscarborough

I prefer a Leather handled Rose, 10.5", but I sell mostly plastic handled Rose, 11".

jvcstone

Personally, I liked the wood handled Rose trowels 10, 10.5, and 11
any bigger than that and I might as well had a shovel Always kept a little pointing trowel in my back pocket too.
JVC

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Tscarborough

Can't get wood handled roses in the last 5 or 8 years.

jvcstone

I know-- still have one though. Seems to me when MPI was closing them out I bought several
JVC

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Tscarborough

Yeah, and I had 50+ wood replacement handles and they are all gone now. Oh well.

Bigbricklayer

I use a 12 inch plastic handle narrow london Rose. When I wear it down to 11 1/2 inches I replace it.

6stringmason

I use an 11" trowel from Marshalltown.

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tkle

With the rubberized handle.About the only trowel anybody uses around here.The handles a bit slippery when wet though.

6stringmason

Thats the one.

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BreyerConstruct

Gotta be a Rose.
I always used the rubber handled Marshalltown & thought the expensive, basic looking Rose was a joke. My M snapped in half, it's replacement is a wooden handled Rose (I couldn't find a leather wrapped one).

Awesome tool. Oh, I think it started out at 11", not sure what it's at now.

~Matt

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stacker

i use a 12 inch rose plastic handle for my block work.i use a wore out 10 inch wore down to about a 9in plastic rose for my brick.and i use an old wore out margin trowel to open my beer when i get off work if i cant find that damn opener.

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tkle

I've never had a marshalltown break,but they do tend to wear down quicker than a Rose.That's because they're lighter.Simple solution,buy a new one.They're cheap.

stacker

i had a marshall town break on me when i was working a school in wichita.it was cold as heck that morning and the mud was freezing on the boards and back of our trowels.i went to hit my trowel on the block to get rid of some of the cement on the backside,and when i did,it broke.my cousin,who has been a mason for 40 years had never seen anything like it.

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Double-A

If you are discussing W. Rose brick trowels, they are owned by Kraft Tool Co. in Shawnee, KS.

According to the W. Rose site, wood handled models and replacements are available.

Rose website

Kraft Tools Website has a link to contact them for a distributor in your area.

tkle

That's a good indicator,it's time to go home.