A finish nailer usually consists of a magazine that holds 100 or more finishing nails; inside the gun is a mechanism that fires a piston, which propels the nail into the wood. These guns may be ...

Q: I was helping my boyfriend install some wood trim this weekend and had a disagreement with him about finish nails. He thinks you should drive them flush with the wood and then paint over them. I ...

A few months ago, I brought my 20-ounce hammer and a traditional nail set tool with me to church. A six-penny finish nail, driven by a carpenter in the late 1800s through a piece of oak trim, had ...

” I have boxes of different kinds in the workshop, because all nails are not alike. For instance, there are general-purpose nails used primarily in woodworking, and specialty nails for jobs involving ...