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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Marshalltown Trowel's User Friendly Handle

For a short period, Marshalltown Trowel made a plastic composite they called a User Friendly Handle, or UFH. As told by the reader from Northern Ireland who submitted these photos, he saw a trowel with one of these handles around 1996, but they were no longer available new. He found one on eBay several years ago. The User Friendly Handle was a black soft PVC sleeve over hardwood, with an attached black polymer bumper. The User Friendly Handle was replaced by the red DuraSoft handle.

User Friendly Handle brochure

Marshalltown brick trowel with User Friendly Handle

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