Walls. Courses of units at building scale are the 10" patterns' work (18095 for brick placement, 18090 for block capacity). The moonlight in §2b is piers and planters, and it ends there.
Mixing and pail work. No pointed blade scrapes a bucket corner; the margin trowels (18050/18060) own that entire duty.
Striking. This blade fills joints; compression and concave profile are the jointer's trade (18170/18182), and repointing needs both in sequence.
Compound and putty. The §1 fork governs — flexible pointing knives for drywall compound, putty knives for sash work. A rigid forged trowel serves neither.
Tight-field pointing the blade can't turn in. Under sills and beside sash, admit the 5-1/2"'s jurisdiction — that is why the pair exists.
Seven inches can lift more than most joints accept; the discipline is a ribbon matched to the run you're feeding, picked up along the edge, not heaped at the center. Press back-to-front: compaction happens under the tip and edge driven straight in; smearing sideways bridges voids and stains faces. Hawk tight under the work — everything that falls goes back in the next press. Use the high-lift clearance: on long bed-joint runs, blade low and knuckles riding above the wall line is the geometry the handle was raised for. The tip is an instrument, not a lever: no prying units, no chiseling old mortar — that work has its own tools and this blade's precision is the thing you'd spend. Rinse and dry by the mortar's clock: hardened, tempered carbon steel per the live page — mortar stones onto it by chemistry, and wet alkaline residue is how good blades pit overnight.
Asked before buying
BUYER QUESTIONS, ANSWERED BEFORE YOU ORDER
Pointing trowel vs pointing knife?
Mortar versus joint compound. This is the mortar tool — rigid, forged, Philadelphia-form. The flexible triangle (02700/02701) belongs to drywall. One glance in the bucket settles it.
7" or 5-1/2"?
More mortar per trip and small-course moonlighting here; tightest-quarters control there. Production repoints favor this blade; sash-and-sill fields favor its sibling; crews carry both.
Can it lay brick?
A pier or a planter course, yes — that moonlight is real and stated by the line doc. A wall, no: the 10" London is three inches of capacity and a laying-grade blade away, and the boundary is honest.
Is it forged one-piece?
Per the MAXXGRIP family text and the live Hyde page, yes — hardened, tempered, ground high-carbon steel — with one extraction discrepancy flagged to the resolution queue instead of hidden .
What else does a repoint need?
Removal tools (other lines, silica boundary attached), a tuck pointer that fits the joint (18070/18080, cross-line), a margin trowel for the mixing, a jointer for the strike, and mortar matched softer than the masonry. §2a in one sentence.
Blade width?
Unpublished anywhere; unstated here .
Care?
Rinse before the mortar stones, towel dry, store dry. Chemistry doesn't negotiate.
