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This kit includes a handle, 22 and a 12 blade. This patented product is great for splaying any compounds with out leaving those annoying trowel lines.

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Buyer's feedback: - * An excellent product that makes drywall finishing fairly easy... ...
I highly recommend this trowel. It may not be magic, but it is close to it.

I have textured many walls and ceilings in my home and others. These days I'm mostly removing popcorn ceiling texture or otherwise texturing ceilings. I prefer to leave a very subtle skip trowel texture.

Skip trowel texture is becoming the favored texture for ceilings, though I find many different interpretations of what it is. They range from a very rough stucco-like texture that is very noticeable as soon as you enter a room, to the subtle texture I prefer, which is only distinguishable from a smooth, flat ceiling upon close inspection.

Any rigid trowel blade will do for the rougher textures. But using a rigid blade for a smoother texture requires much practice. You can apply and style the drywall compound with a rigid trowel and then easily smooth it out, removing tool marks and imperfections, with the Magic Trowel. I find that a much wetter, well-thinned compound works best.

I read a review of this trowel in Fine Homebuilding magazine. The author (a renowned drywall expert) endorses this trowel, stating that he even uses it on joints with a very wet compound that he applies with a paint roller. I will try that.

I have three sizes of this trowel, but I find that the smallest, a 12" trowel, works best for my subtle skip-trowel textured ceilings. I will probably only use the larger ones when knocking down knockdown texture. Even for perfectly smooth walls I believe the 12" would be enough as the edges of the rubber on the trowel are so flexible as to make avoiding tool marks simple.

I have no interest in the company that manufactures this trowel. In fact, I have seen similar trowels made by other companies and my guess is they would work as well (though they may not be available in as many sizes).