howdy guys Kurt and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering today Jason had said he was going to
show you folks how to make these bucket scoops I'm gonna show you a little bit of detail why
they're kind of important as you know a lot of acrylics are used from the bucket directly from
the bucket to your heart now give you an example you got your steel ones these are bucket scoop
plastic scoops render scoops these little green ones are the most popular today that's a good
reason why these big white ones used to be real popular but then somebody broke their wrists and
sued the company and they said dude you put too much mud on them so they don't make them anymore
but I still have a couple of those little guys anyway let me show you something guys as far as a
plaster scoop now you make these from the buckets and Jays going to show you how to do that at the
end of this but here's he doesn't want to put it on a tripod to show you this okay here's the mud
say say whether or not this is regular stucco or it's an acrylic here's the idea you see how that
cleans the bucket it cleans the side of the bucket cleans the side here I'll show right
here it cleans the side of the bucket and you can put it flat on the bucket it cleans this buffett
bucket almost perfectly because of this radius now if you look at this particular one here that one's
cracked it also has the same idea notice that radius is the same radius of this bucket yeah
we used to cut a little piece here and take the same radius and scrape them that's kind
of old-school guys I'll show you something else okay say for example this steel one here this
still one look at all that play about 10 years ago I'd say jaebaek three of them as fast as you can
he said what do you want to do you want him fast or you want him well and I said make him fast so
he made him real fast and we just screwed a stick on him and that worked for what we needed but if
you're gonna buy them guys buy the ones that have the radius say for example I'm gonna wet this now
notice that radius that radius is perfect with the bucket so the acrylic muds they stick to
everything so okay you want to take the mud out of these buckets and put it on your Hawk I'll
show you any old days what we would do we take off our dancing shoe and we'd wet it and we take the
mud out of the bucket and we put it on our hockey then we take it from the hock and put it on the
wall anybody remember what that is April Fool's RIT never did that stuff but it's an old dancing
shoe I thought I'd throw that in now I know a lot of you guys are probably gonna say hey Kirk you
know what we do is we take the mud out with our trial now that's fine and dandy but where's the
logic in that guys here's the truth if you take mud out from a bucket with your trial like this
you bend it and what does that mean you pull the ribs right here my trial right here is kind of
partial to be being bent that way it just don't like it so if this is bent this way then when I
go to plaster with it it won't work it's it's like using the trial for a hammer or scraping
mud off the ground with one of your better trials don't do it because you'll loosen this mud right
loosen these rivets right here the best thing to do guys is either make one or buy your own Jay
is going to show you how to do all that stuff coming up but I thought I'd point out because
with Jay holding the camera he can show inside the bucket instead of putting it on a tripod but I'm
sure he'll put it on a pod when he showed you how to make these guys all right guys I get to show
you the fun part now actually making the scoops as opposed to talking about them so we've got a
couple things here you got a full-sized bucket now I already cut what I wanted so that I could make
this video faster and you didn't have to watch me sawing a bunch of plastic what we do is we take a
bucket and do them about six inches tall put a line around it then cut it with whatever you've
got available you can use snips saws you can use a knife I happen to be pretty partial to this little
tool here it's a little bitty circle saw it works really good for this now the important thing when
you're making a scoop as my dad was talking about is the radius you want it to be able to
clean the inside of these buckets well now how do you achieve that well what I do is I use a bucket
to mark the circle that I want you can see on this bucket I've got the centerline marked I want this
bucket to be about here I don't want to be all the way in the middle I want to be about a half
inch away and that will give me a good size for my scoop so I'll take my sharpie and I just trace
this bucket along here so I'll show you guys that now now hopefully you can see from that distance
with the camera I know it's pretty bright today now there's a bunch of different ways you can do
this but when you're cutting this inside part I find it's easiest for me to use this little saw
and yeah I'm using a wood blade it would be better if I had a masonry blade but I don't actually have
one today so get yourself set up and be ready for it to kick and don't don't be behind the blade
there's that side
Perfect now, I could use that same saw to cut these parts, but because it's flimsy,
that saw tends to bind and kick a little bit more. It's great on this stiff bottom part. I
just take my snips. We're gonna cut this to fit anyway, so it doesn't matter if your cut is here
or over here. I'm gonna take my snips and go all the way up, so there's that. There's that one,
so that's the first step now; you'll notice if I try to use this scoop in here,
the sides go way down. They prevent it from actually hitting the bucket, so we want to
take this big shape. I just cut out and tape it, so you'll take it something like this and just
chop these big edges off again. Do it however you like, but this is just what works for me.
This is really exciting. I know all right now that I've cut those edges off. Hopefully, it fits into
this bucket real nice; I guess I could use this one to show ya I'll even walk up, so now I've got
my thing here, and it fits pretty dang perfectly against that edge. The last step is to just take
some piece of wood, whatever you have handy, and you're going to screw that guy in. You could do it
inside. You could do it outside. It doesn't really matter. I've got a few selves tapping screws here.
of course, you can do this wherever whenever you
always drop the most screws when you're on video trying to show someone something
boom there you go now I could put a couple more screws in here to hold this now is this scoop
as good as something you can buy at a store no it's not but is it gonna help you finish
the job if your scoop breaks or if you don't have one yeah now that's the important thing
the important thing is improvising and getting the job done in whatever way you can so this is
just one option that you have if you need to make a scoop anyway guys thanks for watching
hope you learned something and as always live long and plasterer by the way folks my dad and
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