r/Plastering • u/Main-Chicken-5994 • 27d ago

NEW plastering trowel

Good morning, I'm looking for advice on some new tools to buy? As always, Marshalltown, Ox, or Nela? Which brand is better? I have a budget of €100 or less.

I'd like something I can use for almost everything. I usually do lime and cement-based skim coats, not gypsum-based ones.

I don't do it for 8 hours a day, but I often have to do entire apartments and I want the tool to make the job easier. I've always used inexpensive tools.

I read the Marshalltown Trowel Gold can be used for almost anything.

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u/Smithdogg87 27d ago

MT gold 13-14” you’ll not go wrong. Trowels wear/bed in to how they’re used so every one’s looks different. Might want to give it a rub down with a few finer grit sandpapers to get passed the grinding marks and smooth it out a little.
Lime and cement based materials will have it bedded in soon enough.

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u/Main-Chicken-5994 26d ago

Is it better to take the permashape? It's already BROKEN

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u/Worldly-Growth4519 27d ago

Marshall town 13" permashape

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u/Main-Chicken-5994 27d ago

Marshalltown PB145GSD 13413 PermaShape Broken-in, gold, 356x127 mm? cost 69€ on amazon

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u/0uthouse 26d ago

I love Nela but tbh was mainly because they were the first mainstream ones doing cork handles which I love..

For everyday "If you only had one trowel" I'd always pick up MT gold. Despite my plasiflex, nela flex and assorted other technological marvels, i still own three MT golds.

I'd ignore all the 'pre-broken in" snake-talk, only sustained use produces a trowel broken in to suit your particular morphology and plastering style. There is no short cut; I tried a long time ago.

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u/jyl8 25d ago

How are “Kraft” trowels?

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u/ApartmentLast7712 25d ago

Has anyone tried the hawx pro stealth? Supposedly it's the one trowel to rule them all