Just wanted to say thx my man. Love learning how to's from pros who can not only do it right but also who have a gift to teach. Seems to be lost in the 'get it done' world we live in. Not a finisher but may have a little to do this week. I always like to know the 'Y' behind things. It has always helped me learn the naunces to things. Keep passing it on and thx again Leo.
You’re welcome. I haven’t made a new video as I have been training a couple of new guys. Next video will be coming soon on their progress after a month and a half.
@@manwithapan love the name by the way. Watching Tyler was one of my favorites. I've been around a few craftsmen/teachers and love it. Wish I'd of had them at earlier age. But probably been to hard-headed, lol.
@@Paul_Rigsby He is a work in progress. My mission ‘with my kids is like my oldest one. Eli is now 26 and can hold his own very well. He has finished houses as big as 15k ft of drywall by himself. He is now in Airforce heading for Engineering degree and can always fall back on finishing. I believe everyone should be able to do a trade or something to fall back on if their path doesn’t go as planned.
@@manwithapan all the pros around where I live work this way, they use a combo of knives and trowels with hauks. We use either hot mud or boxed lightweight mud, seems to work just fine. Skimming is much faster with a trowel, but knives have more precision in my honest opinion. Best of both worlds I suppose. If you buy the correct flat trowel, they have enough flex. I stick with 13x5 flat trowels, they seem to have enough flex for me.
Thank you very much for your videos, they have helped me a lot. I still don’t like how I am picking my 3-way corners and have not been able to find a video showing how people do them on the 2nd coat. Do you let your angles dry and come back and do them? Or do you pick them the same day as you use your angle head ? Thanks again !
Thank you for watching and I am glad they have helped you out. As far as 3 ways go. After I run my mudshot in a room or two. I then clean the corners for any left over mud. Then when I am done with the house, I will go back to where I started and pick them the first time and run 1 side of the angles I can’t get with mudshot. After I finish skim coat on house, I finalize it out by picking 3 ways again in opposite direction, detailing anywhere the finish is needed and run the opposite side of the angles in closets and small spaces.
Question for you, Leo. Is it ever acceptable, from a professional finisher's point of view, to after your skim coat on a finished butt joint (hand finished) have a 12" knife rock a little when it's placed directly on the center of the joint? Is some rocking generally acceptable so to speak?
Most of them should be flat. If it is rocking only on center you will see butt joint after it’s painted. You can fill the sides of the but to make it more of a curve instead of just the hump in middle. I have a two part video on one of the worst butt joints I have ever finished. It fully explains how I do it.
@@manwithapan Appreciate the response. I've seen the other two videos you speak of, I've watched all your videos actually, even on your other channel :)
@@manwithapan Bummer. How'd that happen, if I may ask? I actually ran into that hard edge you talk about when cutting with the edge of the knife (I noticed it happens when using a bigger knife, like a 12", but not so much with a 4" or 6") so started cutting with the middle, works like a charm, saved my arm when sanding.
@@fbad3 I had another business years ago with a different URL and used that email address. When I closed it we shut down the email server and that channel was attached to it. So it’s just there on you tube and nothing I can do about it.
Just wanted to say thx my man. Love learning how to's from pros who can not only do it right but also who have a gift to teach. Seems to be lost in the 'get it done' world we live in. Not a finisher but may have a little to do this week. I always like to know the 'Y' behind things. It has always helped me learn the naunces to things. Keep passing it on and thx again Leo.
You’re welcome. I haven’t made a new video as I have been training a couple of new guys. Next video will be coming soon on their progress after a month and a half.
@@manwithapan love the name by the way. Watching Tyler was one of my favorites. I've been around a few craftsmen/teachers and love it. Wish I'd of had them at earlier age. But probably been to hard-headed, lol.
@@Paul_Rigsby He is a work in progress. My mission ‘with my kids is like my oldest one. Eli is now 26 and can hold his own very well. He has finished houses as big as 15k ft of drywall by himself. He is now in Airforce heading for Engineering degree and can always fall back on finishing. I believe everyone should be able to do a trade or something to fall back on if their path doesn’t go as planned.
nice finish! I use a flat trowel for a joint like that, but it's basically done the same way.
Never used a flat trowel on anything but plaster work. Broad knives are not stiff enough to push plaster around.
@@manwithapan all the pros around where I live work this way, they use a combo of knives and trowels with hauks. We use either hot mud or boxed lightweight mud, seems to work just fine. Skimming is much faster with a trowel, but knives have more precision in my honest opinion. Best of both worlds I suppose. If you buy the correct flat trowel, they have enough flex. I stick with 13x5 flat trowels, they seem to have enough flex for me.
Nicely done ✅👍✅
Thank you!
Thank you very much for your videos, they have helped me a lot. I still don’t like how I am picking my 3-way corners and have not been able to find a video showing how people do them on the 2nd coat. Do you let your angles dry and come back and do them? Or do you pick them the same day as you use your angle head ? Thanks again !
Thank you for watching and I am glad they have helped you out. As far as 3 ways go. After I run my mudshot in a room or two. I then clean the corners for any left over mud. Then when I am done with the house, I will go back to where I started and pick them the first time and run 1 side of the angles I can’t get with mudshot. After I finish skim coat on house, I finalize it out by picking 3 ways again in opposite direction, detailing anywhere the finish is needed and run the opposite side of the angles in closets and small spaces.
Thank you !
@@nacehagemann5596 You’re welcome!
Question for you, Leo. Is it ever acceptable, from a professional finisher's point of view, to after your skim coat on a finished butt joint (hand finished) have a 12" knife rock a little when it's placed directly on the center of the joint? Is some rocking generally acceptable so to speak?
Most of them should be flat. If it is rocking only on center you will see butt joint after it’s painted. You can fill the sides of the but to make it more of a curve instead of just the hump in middle. I have a two part video on one of the worst butt joints I have ever finished. It fully explains how I do it.
@@manwithapan Appreciate the response. I've seen the other two videos you speak of, I've watched all your videos actually, even on your other channel :)
@@fbad3 I got locked out of that one.
@@manwithapan Bummer. How'd that happen, if I may ask? I actually ran into that hard edge you talk about when cutting with the edge of the knife (I noticed it happens when using a bigger knife, like a 12", but not so much with a 4" or 6") so started cutting with the middle, works like a charm, saved my arm when sanding.
@@fbad3 I had another business years ago with a different URL and used that email address. When I closed it we shut down the email server and that channel was attached to it. So it’s just there on you tube and nothing I can do about it.