Used to fight with the banjo for an hour every job site. Now I finish in 20 minutes flat.

I used to hand cut every single angle on my banjo box for inside corners. Last year after a job in Raleigh that took me 6 hours just on the rough ins, I finally switched to a roll taping tool with a cutter built in. That thing saves me so much time I actually get home for dinner now. How many of you still use a banjo versus the roll style?

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joel_butler15d ago

Still kicking myself for waiting so long to switch. Tried a roll style taping tool from my buddy last spring and it felt like cheating. My banjo was always getting clogged with mud in the corners no matter how thin I mixed it. Actually spent a whole afternoon trying to unjam one once with a coat hanger while my kid was blowing up my phone asking where I hid the video game remotes. Anyway, the roll style with the built in cutter is the only way I'll tape now, even if it does use a bit more compound on the straights.

fiona_murphy15d ago

Used to swear by the old pan and knife method, thought the roll style was just hype. One try and I felt like an idiot for wasting all those years fighting with a mud pan.

robinson.hannah12d ago

Took the words right out of my mouth about the banjo clogs. I spent a solid hour on a Friday with a butter knife and a toothbrush trying to clean dried mud out of the nozzle on my old one while the whole crew waited. Joel Butler, I feel your pain on that coat hanger story, I used a paperclip and a lot of bad language one time after a kid's birthday party got cancelled on me. Switching to a roll style with a cutter made me actually look forward to taping days again. It's not perfect but at least I'm not fighting the damn tool every twenty seconds.