Plastering trowel - Stainless / Carbon Steel / Marshalltown

[skhudy]

Today I needed a smaller 11" trowel.

@ Toolstation they bought out a Marshalltown - which I queried as I ordered the Stainless steel Ragni but they said it was from the correct picking point.

Basically I assumed it was a substitute of equal quality.

Now its got some rust marks and having struggled to identify it - MXS1Dh I think dropping the h comes back online that it is Spring steel (Carbon Steel?)

What's the suggestion - the trowel they've given is double the price of the Ragni but I'm used to my stainless steel trowels

 

[noseall]

Get yourself a stainless Marshalltown they are excellent bits of kit.

 

[skhudy]

I have a 14" MT Gold and 14" Ragni - both stainless and great to use

The 11" was for just one awkward section, the first in several years (I'm a DIYer) so I didn't really need the £40 MT SS trowel

They've put a note on my file so I can do an exchange in store in the next few days.

Meanwhile, I'll have a think and read up on whether to keep or swap it i.e have a carbon blade to compliment my stainless - but keep better care of it. Online opinions seem quite split!