- Brand: Goldblatt
- Rounds: 9
- Item Dimensions LxWxH: 25 x 5 x 5 inches
- Item Weight: 5.8 Pounds
- Barrel Material Type: Aluminum/Steel
- Pattern pistol with hopper, Cast aluminum pistol with Steel dial face for varying spray textures
- Comes with hopper
- Excellent for industrial use
- 3/2-Inch and 1/8-Inch nozzles
- Smooth, even coverage
- Convenient trigger lock
- 9 pattern orifice wheel
- Hopper included



Allen Brosco –
I purchased this gun for putting ‘knockdown’ on my kitchen ceilng and walls. I have had absolutely no experience in doing this before. It was a ‘growth’ experience. There is a plethora of information on the internet, videos et.al., but none gave a start to finish discussion of how to do this. In the long run, you have to experiment on some scrap material or a section of the wall that will be covered up (by cabinets etc.). I bought the ‘knockdown’ material from Home Depot and simply followed the mixing directions on the package.I did the walls first. Great! the gun performed perfectly. It took a number of tries before I got the balance between the opening to be used (I used the 3rd largest hole ..next time I’ll use the next smaller hole.), the amount of trigger pull needed (‘winged it’ mostly wide open) , and the pressure from my compressor (=< 40# ... less may be better). And that's the beauty of this machine.. it's so easy to change settings. I love the all metal construction of the gun and the hopper is made of very good plastic type material. Although there is a variable 'stop' that can be used to limit the amount of trigger pull, I was not able to find the right location...and so as I said I simply pulled it all the way back and relied upon the orifice openingAnd now we come to the ceiling (and the reason for the 4 rating instead of the 5). This unit comes with a plastic elbow attachment which is supposed to allow you to tip the gun upwards whilst keeping the hopper vertical, to avoid spillage. Thinking back, I seem to remember an innocuous comment on one of the internet sites (not in the manual!) about tightening the lower part of the elbow attachment with a hose clamp. I really remembered that when the hopper popped of the gun and the material started running down my arm and onto the floor. The stuff was starting to set up so had to finish by trying to hold the hopper in place by putting pressure on it. Made for a sloppy and uneven ceiling job, which turned out to be passable. I did buy a hose clamp and it makes the whole ensemble rock solid ..... but com'on guys... for crying out loud, just put the hose clamp in with the gun... REALLY!Bottom line: This is a great gun, better than those I saw in the home improvement stores (IMHO) and I would recommend it to anyone who needs to do knockdown on a large area. Just remember the hose clamp or the gun will remind you!
Chris –
We first bought a cheap pattern sprayer and it broken after a couple weeks. We bought this one and it works great. Easy to take the gun apart and clean it after use. Multiple holes for changing the sprayer pattern. Easy to hold the bucket when doing the ceiling. The only problem you need an extra hole clamp for the 45 degree elbow or else it will fall off.
Patrick –
In short:This is the most poorly designed, badly assembled and misleadingly advertised product that I have ever had the misfortune to own. I am building a house in Hong Kong (don’t even think about trying to do that, by the way). I ordered this product by mail and after a single use I air-mailed it personally to the skip outside my house. What a disgraceful piece of junk.The embarrassing detailLet’s look at the advertised product features:* “3/2-Inch and 1/8-Inch nozzles” Nope. Only came with one nozzle and no spares. The instruction paper also reckoned there should be two nozzles included but still, only one in the gun. The maker does sell the nozzle in the parts replacement kit. Note to maker: in order to be replacement parts they need to be replacing parts that I already have.* “Smooth, even coverage” Who would know. The large minds behind this North American manufacturing triumph have not presented the user with a coherent setup process for their device. Something like so: “First, set your orrifice size to reflect the grit size of the material you will be spraying (refer to table X for examples), then set your air pressure (up to 60psi for misting veneers and as low as 30psi for splattering mortar, see table Y), lastly adjusting your trigger to affect the coverage that you are looking for (see table Z for example combinations)”. Surely the maker knows how this thing works. Is it a secret? What do I have to do to get this information, I mean, I already bought the thing?* “Convenient trigger lock” No it isn’t. It’s a wingnut. No nylock wingnut either, this thing is custom designed to clog with grit and stick, jam, or unscrew all the way while you’re fiddling with it with mucky plaster hands. It is inconveniently located so that adjusting it is a two-hand task. There is no table in the instructions to indicate example settings and no markings on the gun to set them to even if such a table existed. The instructions do say at one point to set the nozzle to 1/16″ from the orrifice. Cool. I’ll just adjust my wingnut to…hang on, how on earth do I do that? Disassemble the gun, get out my callipers, measure the space, scratch on the gun body where the poorly fitting wingnut sits at that distance, reassemble the gun and give it a go? Convenient.* “9 pattern orifice wheel” They’re not lying, it’s there alright. Plus one for Goldblatt. It has not one, but two retaining nuts (not nylock nuts of course) so things are looking good. Unfortunately you need a spanner (not included) to adjust the orrifice wheel and you have to adjust both nuts because the designer did not build a sufficiently sturdy orrifice plate interface with the central thread to hold it in place with just one nut and washer (one of those foldable hand-turnable mini-wingnuts would have been the way to go, by the way). Also, the second nut has an even more fiddly retaining piece that is designed to keep the orrifice wheel tight over the nozzle opening. It is so poorly sized that as you turn the nut the retainer wanders off in the direction that you’re turning. I’ve not had a product designer show me this much contempt since Windows ME.* “Hopper included” Yep. It’s included. Wouldn’t be much use without one, but you said it would be there and it was…well done. Again, you need a screwdriver to attach and detach the hopper from the gun. Why no finger-turn setup? These are standard hose clamps and they do come with finger-turn screws. I’m plastering!!!! My hands are covered with plaster! Also…why doesn’t the hopper have a ridge on the bottom to stop the hose clamp dropping off? Worse though, the rubber gasket that should seal the hopper to the gun sort of crumples and distorts as you ease it on. A dab of dishwashing detergent didn’t help. More rubbish build quality. Gun casting size, hopper size and gasket size do not match. Splendid.Let me add the following:* Woeful assembly qualityβthe two halves of the aluminium gun casting were so poorly fitted together that the air nozzle doesn’t even make it through the outlet hole, jamming on the side instead. Helpful.* The picture on Amazon shows angle pieces that do not come with the gun, making it useless for ceiling or ground work.* Where’s the air shutoff? As soon as you plug the hose in this thing starts hissing like some lunatic serpent. No air shutoff. No air adjuster. Sad.
Ron S. –
I had 2 Goldblatts for over 30 years until they finally wore out. I automatically ordered another Goldblatt.. Big mistake! I had modified the first 2 guns with a PVC 45 bend so the guns worked better for ceilings. This new gun has a “rubber seal” where the gun meets the hopper. The hopper is impossible to keep on the gun, even with the clamp provided. They have changed the size of the hopper and gun just enough so a PVC 45 ell no longer fits. The gun is OK for walls, but not worth a darn for ceilings because of the improper angle you have to hold the gun at to get the mud to flow to the gun. In 6 texture jobs, the hopper came off the gun 6 times. Such a nice mess when it does! I cut my finger trying to clean the inside of the gun due to sharp casting edges left in the gun. This appears to be a cheap Chinese mess.
Chuck –
good tool but doesn’t fit the hopper very tight
Clarence D Shomette –
It worked well, but not as well as the older Goldblatt that I was replacing.
Jesse Graves –
It works great had to replace my older one after 15 years or so. Hoping that this one holds up as good as the last one
Papa C –
I purchased a Goldblat texture hopper n gun10 years ago and was VERY HAPPY with it. I left if on a job and it disappeared. I recently purchased βthis one to replace it. This one is no where near the quality. Very Disappointed. The gun itself is hard to use. The diameter of the hopper connection is an odd size and will not fit any flex adapter available. I rate this a Do Not Buy!!