What is a Trowel?
Trowel is the name of a number of construction and garden tools. Appearing in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, trowels usually consist of a metal blade of any of various shapes attached to a short handle. Some trowels are flat, while others are curved, and they are variously used to spread, dig, scoop, and place. Construction trades. Tile, marble, and terrazzo setters; bricklayers; cement masons and concrete finishers; drywall finishers; plasterers; and others who practice the crafts known as the Trowel Trades use trowels as part of their everyday equipment. Construction trowels are usually metal-bladed and many have a V-shaped back. These are some of the important types of trowel. * Brick trowel. A brick trowel has a slightly rounded, diamond-shaped blade. Brick trowels come in several patterns, including the London pattern for laying brick and the Philadelphia pattern for laying block. They are also used for tamping bricks, and experienced masons use them to cut bricks. * Float or
