Watch as rusty iron is transformed into a perfect brick trowel. This process showcases the skill and craftsmanship needed to create a durable and essential construction tool from old, weathered metal.

Mix mortar following product directions. Use a trowel to place a small amount of mortar on the bottom of the opening. Lay the new brick onto the mortar. Use your trowel to move the brick until you ...

Move the nails and string up as you do each course. Using your brick trowel, scoop up some mortar and lay it on the bottom surface of your opening. Using the tip of your trowel, move the mortar ...

In addition, productivity — how much brick wall a laborer can complete in an hour of work — isn’t much better than it was two decades ago. Bricklaying’s most important tools — a trowel ...

Then, the man lifts his 60-year-old trowel. Stanislaw Gembicki is left in his brick back yard, in the good company of Rabbit Stew and himself. Maybe it’s just that simple.

Joachim da Fonseca is passionate about the trowel trades, and now the P.E.I ... Heritage group hopes to preserve historic estate, brick by brick Da Fonseca, whom most people call "Jake ...