A system may be used with a pottery wheel to facilitate the shaping of a workpiece. The system may have a support assembly coupled to a rotatable wheel of the pottery wheel, and a template holder that holds a template relative to the wheel. The support assembly may have a rotary coupling to which the template holder is coupled; thus, the template holder may be used to keep the template stationary as the wheel, workpiece, and support assembly rotate. The template may be used for jiggering and/or jollying, and may have a plate with a shaping surface that contacts the workpiece during relative rotation to provide the desired contour. The template may have a plate that is insertable into a slot of the template; the template may be retained by the template holder at multiple displacements from the rotatable wheel.

A method for fabricating a concrete slab upon a surface, the concrete slab having a final thickness and having, upon drying, a maximum dry density, the method including steps of providing a body of no-slump concrete, the no-slump concrete including a combination of aggregate and paste; dispensing the no-slump concrete upon the surface in an even depth layer which has an upper surface and includes an air volume, a portion of the paste residing at an upper surface of the even depth layer; removing a portion of the air volume from the no-slump concrete layer by compaction; trowel mulching the paste which resides at the upper surface; and trowel transporting the mulched paste horizontally over the upper surface to form a smooth concrete paste upper slab surface.

A hand-held concrete edger is formed with a rectangular blade having a first, substantially planar part with an upper surface and a lower surface, and a second part extending substantially at a right angle from a long side of the first, substantially planar part, away from the lower surface. A handle extends substantially perpendicularly away from the upper surface of the first, substantially planar part and is configured with a spray device including a water supply and a sprayer, for spraying water onto an advance path of the edger. A control and vibration module is arranged on the upper surface of the substantially planar part and configured with a vibration element that vibrates the rectangular blade.

A hand-held concrete edger is formed with a rectangular blade having a first, substantially planar part with an upper surface and a lower surface, and a second part extending substantially at a right angle from a long side of the first, substantially planar part, away from the lower surface. A handle extends substantially perpendicularly away from the upper surface of the first, substantially planar part and is configured with a spray device including a water supply and a sprayer, for spraying water onto an advance path of the edger. A control and vibration module is arranged on the upper surface of the substantially planar part and configured with a vibration element that vibrates the rectangular blade.

An example operation includes one or more of shaping vertical edges of wet concrete using concrete finishing edger tool, wherein the concrete finishing edger tool comprises a rounded shaping element portion with a radius from around inch to around 1 inch, a tang, and a handle, wherein the vertical edges are shaped prior to the removal of a form surrounding the concrete.

An imprint roller comprises a roller assembly, a frame, and a motor assembly. The roller assembly is supported on the frame and includes a vibrator head and a roller tube having a roller surface. An operator of the imprint roller may grip the frame and support at least a portion of the frame during operation of the imprint roller. The motor assembly is supported on the frame and operable to transfer mechanical energy through the frame to the vibrator head included in the roller assembly.

The present invention relates to an artificial marble including a first composition including a first binder resin, a first inorganic particle, and first inorganic powder; and a second composition including a second binder resin, a second inorganic particle, and second inorganic powder, wherein at least one surface of the artificial marble includes at least two regions among a region provided with the first composition, a region provided with the second composition, and a region where the first composition and the second composition are mixed, and at least one of a surface roughness, a scratch resistance, and a thickness in each of the at least two regions is different, and also relates to a method for manufacturing the artificial marble.

A smoothing tool for finishing a joint filled with a joint compound, is provided having a first plate-shaped joint smoother and a second plate-shaped joint smoother, wherein the first joint smoother and the second joint smoother each have at least one smoothing tip for producing a profile of the joint compound, wherein the first joint smoother has a tenon and the second joint smoother has a mortise, wherein the mortise has a longitudinal axis which lies in a main plane of the second joint smoother or extends parallel thereto, wherein the tenon can assume a basic position and at least one alternative position in the mortise, and wherein, in the basic position, an angle of rotation of the tenon with respect to the longitudinal axis is different from an angle of rotation of the tenon in the alternative position.