The mason’s trowel is the tool that serves to straighten rocky material. It also symbolizes kindness, and a willingness to help those in need. It expresses active goodness, charity, and human will. It is the preferred tool of the mason in his position as active builder. In fact, the trowel is an instrument used by masons to spread the cement which unites the individual stones of a building into one common mass.Masons symbolically use it to spread the cement of brotherly love and affection; that cement which unites them into one sacred band or society of friends and brothers. The Masonic gavel is an emblem of authority. In this capacity, order is maintained. In the era of stonemasons, the common gavel was a tool used to break the rough edges from the stones in order to perfectly fit them into place. In the masonry, the head of the gavel is rectangular, flat on one end and can be slightly pinched or pointed on the other end.