It has been said that for every job there is a tool. That is the case with the tools used to apply the product commercially known as Venetian Plaster. At a seminar on Marmorino hosted by Rivesto-Marmorino several months ago, there was an old plasterer from New Castle, Penn., that looked at these trowels and said, What are these things? He couldnt understand their shape or why they where so flexible and the end was curved.
At a seminar on Marmorino hosted by Rivesto-Marmorino several months ago, there was an old plasterer from New Castle, Penn., that looked at these trowels and said, What are these things? He couldnt understand their shape or why they where so flexible and the end was curved.
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But in a conversation with him recently, he sounded like a changed man; he loves these Venetian plaster trowels designed for use with Rivesto-Marmorino. Altthoug he mentioned that he couldnt use them with regular plaster, he said they where well-suited for Marmorino. Marmorino is a marble product with a lime base that needs to be worked very gently. With traditional plastering, you are required to put on a lot of material very quickly and a rigid style trowel is...