The idea that you are training her and capturing it on RUclips is so wholesome. It's really great that you are able to pass this knowledge on while spending quality time together.
Holy moly y'all look alike! Really appreciate the format of having someone be the guinea pig cuz it brings out a lot more things you wouldn't think about otherwise
So fun, this quality time spent between you and her is so special. 50 years from now this will become a remarkable memoir. I love the fact that she’s a second generation finisher on RUclips, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is the first time this is being done (on RUclips). It will be so nice to follow along throughout the years!
It is very helpful watching someone who is new at it. You can watch and correct them while filming it. You’re viewers probably makes the same mistake. I always learn something from your videos. Have a Merry Christmas!
Very important for beginners to learn how to work the material before applying it to the surface. I have been doing plaster and drywall professionally for 35 years and when I train people I teach them that the hawk is not just a mud holder, its also a tool for getting the mud on the trowel properly. Great video!
Lulu's a nice addition to the videos. Her generation is just starting out to fix and repair drywall and the painting. Making a home of her own with her own added touches. It's nice she has a carpenter dad.
After screwing around with homeowner-grade crap trowels, yesterday I picked up the 13x5" gold marshalltown one you recommended in a past video, and MY GOD it felt like i was cheating. Skim coat went on like glass. Makes a big big difference.
I really enjoy all your videos. It is great that you can spend time with your daughter and pass your knowledge onto her! She seems to be an eager student, which is great!
I watched a bunch of your videos a couple of years ago when I torn out a ceiling and replaced it. It turned out great. I used a trowel and hawk. I did a lot of crack repairs in my 100 year old house last month and lost my touch with those tools. Bringing in someone with a similar skill level as your viewers is pretty genius because she is encountering the same issues we would. It’s an excellent teaching tool.
I like the part where she just started dancing out of the blue. It was just enough to spice things up, but not too much. That was great that dad didn’t hit the Killswitch. These kind of things are important when it comes to craftsmanship, not only what’s comfortable physically, but also mentally. Thanks again, Vanman (Vancouver Carpenter)!
Love your videos. They helped me finish my basement and tackle the drywall myself. Turned out fantastic. I followed your videos and watched some of them a hundred times. Although I benched the trowel and hawk. Couldn’t master it. I’m gonna practice so I don’t have a hawk and trowel sitting around for the next 20 years.
I started doing drywall directly with hawk and trowel after watching your videos (and the art of drywall taping), and it's so natural/easy to pick up, much easier than pan and knife. Didn't even bother taking the knives out of packaging except one for small patches.
My dad taught me how to paint back in the 90s. My Papaw taught him in the 70s. My dad uses a knife and pan, Papaw used a hawk and trowel. I learned how to use a trowel from you. Glad to see the next generation getting the old lessons.
Appreciate your videos, been watching for years. A lot of what I have learned from you gets applied in my work. Even if you’re going over something again, the refreshers are nice and I’ll keep watching.
Thank you for posting this video! I de-wallpapered two bedrooms and bathrooms in my home which has left a ton of damage in the drywall. Been dreading the repair process. This video will help me a lot! Cheers!
This was great! I learned so much and realized a few things I did wrong the last time I tried this. Thanks for sharing! God bless you and your family, Merry Christmas
Tell her as a former child - father helper ( I'm now 71yo ) I am forever grateful for the training . The trades whether you plan to enter the profession is something you can always fall back on. These days having a transferrable skill is priceless and can be a God send.
with plaster you get the knack . I usually do not turn my hawk that steep. I absolutely love your videos ! They are great. You are a very talented craftsman. Wishing you and Yours a Very Blessed CHRISTMAS !
great video. i learned mudding from this channel and have some tips for learning. The information overload is super real, at some point you have to get on the tools for a couple hours and try to figure it out. then at the end of the day, I would take note of the issues i was having and then dive back into these videos to get tips on how to correct those issues. Just focussing on those issues prevented infomation overload. Then i would just rinse and repeat that process to get better. Spending time on the tools is absolutely crucial because its so based on feel. Another tip I have is not to jump right to the trowel because its definitely tougher to learn than the knives. I used the knives with both the pan and the hawk. First i got good with the knives, then I would try the trowel here and there when it makes the most sense (corner beads, large fills) and clean it up with the knives. Im still not great with the trowel but its ok because I'm not doing big jobs. Also, working on walls is alot easier than ceilings so its better to learn that first. Honestly you can do everything with a 6 inch knife except skim coating pretty much, and its easy to control. I lean on it alot.
It's nice to have a video of you working with a beginner cuz my mudding looks a lot more like hers than yours. I'd like mine to look like yours, but sometimes I'm left with, "so what am I doing wrong?" Your instructions to your daughter help me be better. Thanx.
My daughter would like to become a mechanic but it’s a hard trade to get into. You need years of training and certifications. She works on our cars, can replace brakes and rotors, shocks, etc. We got an old 99 Honda CRV that’s been sitting dead in the driveway for a year up and running again. While trades don’t pay as much as an IT job like mine there’s little chance of them being outsourced to a foreign country or replaced by AI. Glad to see you passing your knowledge on to your daughter. Best wishes and Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I am a teacher at a vocational high school (Votech) in suburban Philadelphia. We have a couple of young ladies in Auto Technology and five in Building Trades. It is a great opportunity worth looking into if your daughter is in high school. Good luck to her.
She's adorable! THIS is what TRUE femininity is about...capabilities, contribution, &HAPPINESS w/o ALL the slicing of the face. i foreseee her taking over your channel 🤣 because she's just adorable! (typing as a mom here...)
Wish you had guys had done this sooner! My hawk and trowel are collecting dust because I end up making more of a mess on the floor than on the walls 😂😂
I am competent at many trades, as I've renovated 6 houses in Vancouver over the last 40 years, but drywall mudding is one that eludes me, I can do it but it never looks awesome, so I usually leave it to the pro's. I like your channel and watch with interest and I've got a drywall repair to do this afternoon, but I'm reluctant to go all in and buy the professional gear and practise as drywall mudding is tough to get good at it. Perhaps when I retire in a few years I'll give an honest go.
***Fantastic video!! Quick Question. I have a wall and in the center of that wall is plywood, dividing the wall into two halfs. Where the plywood is - it's indented because its thinner than the Gyprock. Its 20" wide and about 1-4" indented....can I fill over the wood and build thickness and spread out to blend the 2 wall? To make one uniform wall? Thanks very much for a great video.
3:33 re an 'inefficiency: your hawk is in your left hand while hers is in her right, so you were seeing a (possibly confusing) mirror image of yourself. Does handedness play a role in this technique?
I tried teaching all 5 of kids, only the oldest girl got it. And I'm telling you I believe it's a genetic pass down despite what science says, because she was better than most 1st year apprentices on her first go. But she opted for medical school, which costs me more, by a hundred thousand
It's funny she rotates the hawk and you address it. Then she does the correct way and says "no it's not". She'll get there, she has a great teacher. Vancouver Carpenter remindsof Larry Haun in a way. He could be the modern day Larry Haun of drywall 😁
I was messing with a hawk and trowel the other day. I decided that 25 years with a pan and knife is too hard to get past and why they ronlearn a few way now? Cool stuff though.
Hey Ben, this is the first time I’ve ever commented. I really just have a question. Was always a pan and knife guy and by no means a pro, but always thought the hawk looked easier so the other day I bought one. Where the circular grooves are cut into the face the are a lot metal filings, do you just use it and over time they’ll wear away or do you give the hawk a bit of a sanding to get rid of them? Your content has helped me out a ton. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Cheers
9:33 (ISH) Mud ring on gang boxes, what’s that, b/c as nice as it would be to show up on job that has them; I can’t out in 1 hand of times where have actually encountered them out there in the wilds of jobsite land 😂¹ ¹ and yes, the drywall can install before “mudding”, but let’s be real; showing up on drywall day or mud day (if someone else hung the Sheetrock and you showing up doing all the taping and mudding & finish coat as this happens a lot too) your kinda in perpetual state of MOVE IT NOW type of work and everyone awaits your arrival and completion of job, so [they] can move down the road of “work”….. Plus, who pays for all those mud rings?
I am still confused whether your flat trowel is flat or has a slight curve. And, if it has a curve, I'm not sure if it came flat and you tapped the curve into it or if it came already curved for floating. I know it's not a "drywall trowel" with a hollow meant for mounding. And, Don't fall for it, kid! He's training you up to do all the ceilings.
@@vancouvercarpenter Do they come that way from the store or do you have to add the curve by tapping like you showed in another video? By the way, thank you for all of your videos. I hung and taped a ceiling for a friend of mine a couple weeks ago and couldn't have done it without your help as I'd only done patching before then. It came out great, but let's not talk about how much sanding I did vs. what you do. :-)
The idea that you are training her and capturing it on RUclips is so wholesome. It's really great that you are able to pass this knowledge on while spending quality time together.
Holy moly y'all look alike! Really appreciate the format of having someone be the guinea pig cuz it brings out a lot more things you wouldn't think about otherwise
Big kudos to your daughter. It takes a lot to be a student when you know people are watching you. She is quite brave to do it on camera.
Seems to me that she thinks it's only a matter of time before she can outdo the old man. She looks pretty confident.
So fun, this quality time spent between you and her is so special. 50 years from now this will become a remarkable memoir.
I love the fact that she’s a second generation finisher on RUclips, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is the first time this is being done (on RUclips). It will be so nice to follow along throughout the years!
It is very helpful watching someone who is new at it. You can watch and correct them while filming it. You’re viewers probably makes the same mistake. I always learn something from your videos. Have a Merry Christmas!
@@donaldnorton8330 This and the “James and the giant patch” video are the two best on RUclips for learning this stuff
Very important for beginners to learn how to work the material before applying it to the surface. I have been doing plaster and drywall professionally for 35 years and when I train people I teach them that the hawk is not just a mud holder, its also a tool for getting the mud on the trowel properly. Great video!
Thank you!
Lulu's a nice addition to the videos. Her generation is just starting out to fix and repair drywall and the painting. Making a home of her own with her own added touches. It's nice she has a carpenter dad.
After screwing around with homeowner-grade crap trowels, yesterday I picked up the 13x5" gold marshalltown one you recommended in a past video, and MY GOD it felt like i was cheating. Skim coat went on like glass. Makes a big big difference.
There is a big difference 👍
The more you sand down or use the edges the better it will get.
Watching her eyes while you talk is great. I see that look from my children -- a lot. 😀
Beyond that, "showing" a beginner is gold.
I really enjoy all your videos. It is great that you can spend time with your daughter and pass your knowledge onto her! She seems to be an eager student, which is great!
I watched a bunch of your videos a couple of years ago when I torn out a ceiling and replaced it. It turned out great. I used a trowel and hawk. I did a lot of crack repairs in my 100 year old house last month and lost my touch with those tools. Bringing in someone with a similar skill level as your viewers is pretty genius because she is encountering the same issues we would. It’s an excellent teaching tool.
I’ve messed with drywall lightly for years and still a beginner watching u 2 lol. thanks for the vids u do great work
Thanks for showing a left-handed person. For many reasons, thank you.
She's hysterical. I love it !
I like the part where she just started dancing out of the blue. It was just enough to spice things up, but not too much. That was great that dad didn’t hit the Killswitch. These kind of things are important when it comes to craftsmanship, not only what’s comfortable physically, but also mentally.
Thanks again, Vanman (Vancouver Carpenter)!
Love your videos. They helped me finish my basement and tackle the drywall myself. Turned out fantastic. I followed your videos and watched some of them a hundred times. Although I benched the trowel and hawk. Couldn’t master it. I’m gonna practice so I don’t have a hawk and trowel sitting around for the next 20 years.
Using people that have little to no experience to teach the skills is the very best way to show us noobs how to do it right! Great teaching tool Ben!
I started doing drywall directly with hawk and trowel after watching your videos (and the art of drywall taping), and it's so natural/easy to pick up, much easier than pan and knife. Didn't even bother taking the knives out of packaging except one for small patches.
My dad taught me how to paint back in the 90s. My Papaw taught him in the 70s. My dad uses a knife and pan, Papaw used a hawk and trowel. I learned how to use a trowel from you. Glad to see the next generation getting the old lessons.
Appreciate your videos, been watching for years. A lot of what I have learned from you gets applied in my work. Even if you’re going over something again, the refreshers are nice and I’ll keep watching.
It is so lovely to look at you both, you are lucky to share this with your daughter
Another great video with so much useful info! Will have to rewatch again to get it all. Your daughter is great and adds that youthful comedy touch.
Thank you for posting this video! I de-wallpapered two bedrooms and bathrooms in my home which has left a ton of damage in the drywall. Been dreading the repair process. This video will help me a lot! Cheers!
usually i feel like im the amateur when watching this channel, this video is truly an inspiration
I've always loved your videos and now getting to meet your daughter is awesome. She is doing a great job!!
I enjoyed seeing your daughter pick up the tools & get after it.
More videos. Even just for your own records. The time flies and ia so precious. 😢
As a fellow lefty, it's hard to learn something like this from a righty. It's easier to stand face to face, rather than beside each other.
This!
All dads and daughters can relate to this frustration. "You're doing something wrong but I don't know what"
Ben, "I'm not gonna say anything this time", proceeds to talk even more than before!🤣
This was great! I learned so much and realized a few things I did wrong the last time I tried this. Thanks for sharing! God bless you and your family, Merry Christmas
Tell her as a former child - father helper ( I'm now 71yo ) I am forever grateful for the training . The trades whether you plan to enter the profession is something you can always fall back on. These days having a transferrable skill is priceless and can be a God send.
with plaster you get the knack . I usually do not turn my hawk that steep. I absolutely love your videos ! They are great. You are a very talented craftsman. Wishing you and Yours a Very Blessed CHRISTMAS !
Plaster is a different beast. I'll give it another go some day.
great video. i learned mudding from this channel and have some tips for learning. The information overload is super real, at some point you have to get on the tools for a couple hours and try to figure it out. then at the end of the day, I would take note of the issues i was having and then dive back into these videos to get tips on how to correct those issues. Just focussing on those issues prevented infomation overload. Then i would just rinse and repeat that process to get better. Spending time on the tools is absolutely crucial because its so based on feel. Another tip I have is not to jump right to the trowel because its definitely tougher to learn than the knives. I used the knives with both the pan and the hawk. First i got good with the knives, then I would try the trowel here and there when it makes the most sense (corner beads, large fills) and clean it up with the knives. Im still not great with the trowel but its ok because I'm not doing big jobs. Also, working on walls is alot easier than ceilings so its better to learn that first. Honestly you can do everything with a 6 inch knife except skim coating pretty much, and its easy to control. I lean on it alot.
Best training ever. You see things you never see from a pro
Great video! They seem like such simple tools but they were so much harder to figure out than i anticipated.
It's nice to have a video of you working with a beginner cuz my mudding looks a lot more like hers than yours. I'd like mine to look like yours, but sometimes I'm left with, "so what am I doing wrong?" Your instructions to your daughter help me be better. Thanx.
It's Kirk Giordano plastering he's the man! Listen to him for sure! Great job dad!
Nope. “On the Trowel” two different channels. Kirk Giordano is great though.
My daughter would like to become a mechanic but it’s a hard trade to get into. You need years of training and certifications. She works on our cars, can replace brakes and rotors, shocks, etc. We got an old 99 Honda CRV that’s been sitting dead in the driveway for a year up and running again. While trades don’t pay as much as an IT job like mine there’s little chance of them being outsourced to a foreign country or replaced by AI. Glad to see you passing your knowledge on to your daughter. Best wishes and Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I am a teacher at a vocational high school (Votech) in suburban Philadelphia. We have a couple of young ladies in Auto Technology and five in Building Trades. It is a great opportunity worth looking into if your daughter is in high school. Good luck to her.
Love the father/daughter tutorials!
I love the videos with your daughter!! It remind me when I work in home with my daddd ❤
Passing down the knowledge and skill thats what its all about
Cool video! This actually did helped because she does what we newbies do. Thank you
When you're so good you forget the mistakes that can be made
Thanks for the tutorial. Lulu was awesome. You should have her on again. 😊
This is great! This reminds me that I need to redo my bathroom ceiling.
She's adorable! THIS is what TRUE femininity is about...capabilities, contribution, &HAPPINESS w/o ALL the slicing of the face. i foreseee her taking over your channel 🤣 because she's just adorable! (typing as a mom here...)
:)
3:03 "hold the hawk" and she is about to burst laugh, maybe because hawk tuah? :)
You gotta give 'em that hawk/trowel
Wish you had guys had done this sooner! My hawk and trowel are collecting dust because I end up making more of a mess on the floor than on the walls 😂😂
Watching your videos has turned me from Hawk Pooey, to Hawk Tuey. Mud on that thing!!
Amazing "mini-me" look a like. Great episode. All the best and happy holidays VC Fam.
Adorable...She's going to be a pro!
I like that Lulu is a lefty.
Great show😊
I am competent at many trades, as I've renovated 6 houses in Vancouver over the last 40 years, but drywall mudding is one that eludes me, I can do it but it never looks awesome, so I usually leave it to the pro's.
I like your channel and watch with interest and I've got a drywall repair to do this afternoon, but I'm reluctant to go all in and buy the professional gear and practise as drywall mudding is tough to get good at it.
Perhaps when I retire in a few years I'll give an honest go.
Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
TOP NOTCH CONTENT!!
Hawk Trowel! Mud on that thang!
You’re wrong dad!!! Mines 25 and it hasn’t changed ………lol. Good video as always Ben
Thanks Ed!
***Fantastic video!! Quick Question. I have a wall and in the center of that wall is plywood, dividing the wall into two halfs. Where the plywood is - it's indented because its thinner than the Gyprock. Its 20" wide and about 1-4" indented....can I fill over the wood and build thickness and spread out to blend the 2 wall? To make one uniform wall? Thanks very much for a great video.
32:53 They’ll feel like you aren’t giving them enough attention if you don’t make a big mess in there 😂
I’m right-handed and have a left-handed daughter as well ❤️😊
dude, this is so memorizing. Question: why would I skim mud over a new sheet of drywall vs simply priming/painting? (new sheet)
3:33 re an 'inefficiency: your hawk is in your left hand while hers is in her right, so you were seeing a (possibly confusing) mirror image of yourself. Does handedness play a role in this technique?
I tried teaching all 5 of kids, only the oldest girl got it. And I'm telling you I believe it's a genetic pass down despite what science says, because she was better than most 1st year apprentices on her first go. But she opted for medical school, which costs me more, by a hundred thousand
Thanks!
That’s awesome you guys are an awesome family!
Thank you so much!!!
She did OK! Give her a little more positive feedback and encouragement.
lol - a teenage girl letting herself be filmed trying something brand new and getting corrected by her father. You are both brave :)
It's funny she rotates the hawk and you address it. Then she does the correct way and says "no it's not".
She'll get there, she has a great teacher. Vancouver Carpenter remindsof Larry Haun in a way.
He could be the modern day Larry Haun of drywall 😁
I was messing with a hawk and trowel the other day. I decided that 25 years with a pan and knife is too hard to get past and why they ronlearn a few way now? Cool stuff though.
Great kid!
I found coating inside corners the most difficult thing, and there's a lot of inside corners.
Hey Ben, this is the first time I’ve ever commented. I really just have a question. Was always a pan and knife guy and by no means a pro, but always thought the hawk looked easier so the other day I bought one. Where the circular grooves are cut into the face the are a lot metal filings, do you just use it and over time they’ll wear away or do you give the hawk a bit of a sanding to get rid of them?
Your content has helped me out a ton. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Cheers
Try sanding it
Nutela truel help plaster could have more water last coat
No DNA test needed
Don't be so sure. I hear that all the postmen in Canada look similar.
No offense, but she should be in everyone of your videos.
She gives your videos a nice upgrade!!!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
When she graduates we might see more of her.
She's a lefty. That's what it is
6:30 Trying flicking your wrist. If you get mud all over the person next to you, it might be too wet. 😁
great
9:33 (ISH) Mud ring on gang boxes, what’s that, b/c as nice as it would be to show up on job that has them; I can’t out in 1 hand of times where have actually encountered them out there in the wilds of jobsite land 😂¹
¹ and yes, the drywall can install before “mudding”, but let’s be real; showing up on drywall day or mud day (if someone else hung the Sheetrock and you showing up doing all the taping and mudding & finish coat as this happens a lot too) your kinda in perpetual state of MOVE IT NOW type of work and everyone awaits your arrival and completion of job, so [they] can move down the road of “work”….. Plus, who pays for all those mud rings?
Your daughter is left handed, and you gave her the right handed hawk !!, lol 😆
😂
Hawk Tuahwel
I wish i could get my Daughters to work with me. But i won't force them
🙏👏👍💪
Daughter has some of the same facial expressions as dad...
I am still confused whether your flat trowel is flat or has a slight curve. And, if it has a curve, I'm not sure if it came flat and you tapped the curve into it or if it came already curved for floating. I know it's not a "drywall trowel" with a hollow meant for mounding.
And, Don't fall for it, kid! He's training you up to do all the ceilings.
It should rock very slightly when on the wall
@@vancouvercarpenter Do they come that way from the store or do you have to add the curve by tapping like you showed in another video? By the way, thank you for all of your videos. I hung and taped a ceiling for a friend of mine a couple weeks ago and couldn't have done it without your help as I'd only done patching before then. It came out great, but let's not talk about how much sanding I did vs. what you do. :-)
Hawk trowel on that thaaang
why would you post that on a video of child?
twins
You need to take into consideration she is left handed and you are right so she will have to work backwards to you
5:00 y’all are doing it opposite handed so teaching it looks backwards for her
Idk why i read the title as "Hawk Tuahl for Beginners"
I’m sure you weren’t the only one.
😅
Hawk? I believe it is spelled 'Hock'.
Don’t think so. Used to think so too though.
She's using opposite hands.
5 times? Doesn’t Canada have ‘Child Labor Laws’? LOL…good her!
I kid
The math is not mathing!
The thing she’s doing is being left handed
In the beginning
Which is to say, doing things properly!
@@ef2b Yeah it looks awkward to a right handed is what I was saying. I was thinking the same thing until I noticed
Spitting image