Plastic Drywall Mud Pan with Steel Scraping Bars 12” is the prefect mud pan for managing mud and cleaning your knife. The sturdy plastic drywall pan is lighter than metal mud pans while holding up just as well. This pan has two angles scrape bars for cleaning off any excess mud from your knife.A Mud Pan is a tool used to hold a plaster, mortar, or a similar material, so that the user can repeatedly, quickly and easily get some of that material on the tool which then applies it to a surface. The user holds the pan horizontally with the non-dominant hand and applies the material on the pan with a tool held in the dominant hand.Mud Pan are most often used by plasterers along with a finishing trowel to apply a smooth finish of plaster to a wall. Brick pointers use a pan to hold mortar while they work. Mud Pan are also used to hold joint compound for tape and jointing.