JB You Missed the "Point"

[Grunt]

Ah John!

Where is your sense of humor, your playfulness? Have you been drinking from the same well as CX?

When folks come to my cabinet shop and ask about my well traveled red handled hammer, I don't say I put in nails and take them out with it. Nooo! 40 some odd years ago a friend gave it to me as a gift for helping him reroof his chicken coop in Nebraska. No other hammer touches my hand when I am building cabinets.

I can do all of the "magic" tricks you quoted with a margin trowel. Wow!

So I ask again JB, why the "not-so pointy trowel". Did you just get up one morning and say "convention be damned" I going to use the pointy trowel today.

Did Hef give it to you for redoing the "grotto" when you worked in CA?

Did your mentor use a pointy trowel?

Come on John you tell a good yarn, I have been privy to some.

There must be a reason David Letterman wears white socks! There must be a reason the Elvis loved peanut butter and banana sandwiches! There must be a reason that old Triumph motorcycles like to "pee" when you park them.

So come on John --- Why do you use a "not-so-pointy" trowel?

I hope this question brings back good memories and put a smile on that "oh so serious" face of yours.

Mike

ps: for the Policemen out there - I started a new thread because I know from experience that JB never reads my stuff more than once.

[Sponsored Links]

[The Kid]

You use a hammer to build cabinets? :uhh:

Probly a plumb eh!

[John Bridge]

Sorry, Grunt. Not much to it. :)

I started out with a worn out margin trowel, which soon became too short to reach across the backs of larger tiles. Tiles got bigger so I stepped up to a "tile setter's trowel," the cut down version of a mason's trowel with a rounded point. That seemed a bit awkward, so I finally settled on the gauging trowel. Just right. Gotta be a Marshalltown, though. The others are too stiff. ;)

[Hamilton]

Ever put a brand new margin trowel in your back pocket, only to bend
over and rip your pants from the sharp corner? I have :uhh: I take a
new margin and grind the corners just a bit on some concrete or mud.
Gotta break em in right! :blah:

Gotta be a Marshalltown, though. The others are too stiff

I couldn't agree more.. :bow: :)

[Grunt]

Thanks John:

That was the kind of answer I was looking for. It makes perfect sense!

I bought the wrong kind of "pointy" trowel, I will try a gauging trowel.

That is if Bev will give me my allowance this month.

Mike

[John Bridge]

Say hi to Berverly. Missed y'all at Jerry's house this year. :)

[Shaughnn]

Jack,
Here's a coincidence. When the corners on my margin trowels get to be a bit "rounded", I cut off the tip to expose crisp sharp corners again. I buy the 8" margin trowels and when they get down to about 5", they retire. I keep a gauging trowel close by also.
ALWAYS Marshalltown.
Shaughnn

[John Bridge]

Me too! :D I've got about three margin trowel laying around. I like to keep one of them sharp, but since I've quit doing a lot of mud work I don't really need a sharp one. ;)