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Nail Guns

  • Tools of the Trade

    DeWalt Cordless Framing Nailer

    Rob Corbo test drives the DeWalt DCN920

    3 MIN READ
  • Tools

    Cordless Nailers for Trim Work

    5 MIN READ
  • Tools

    Cordless Duplex Nailer

  • Tools of the Trade

    Real Deal Review: DeWalt 20V Max 15-degree Coil Roofing Nailer

    4 MIN READ
  • Products/Tools

    Real Deal Review: Milwaukee M18 FUEL Framing Nailer

    2 MIN READ
  • Tools

    Headless Pin Nailer

    2 MIN READ
    Light, powerful, well designed—and cordless—the Grex 23-gauge pinner delivered on site and in the shop.
  • Tools

    DeWalt Cordless Fencing Stapler

    2 MIN READ
  • Tools

    Plastic Nails and Nail Gun

    3 MIN READ
    Plastic nails. True story. They grab hard, sand flat, and accept stain, so you don’t have to fill nail holes. This takes one complete step out of some paint prep and finishing processes.
  • Tools

    Real Deal Review: Grex Pin Nailer

    2 MIN READ
    The unit is powered by a fuel cell and two AAA batteries. Plenty of power and runtime.
  • Tools

    Deck Installation Tool

  • JLC

    I Was Today Years Old When I Learned This Nail Gun Trick

  • Tools

    Reviewed: Makita High-Pressure Coil Spiker

    2 MIN READ
    High-pressure tools. The tank holds air at up to 500-psi. We keep ours at 275-300.
  • Tools

    Video: Airbow – The Framing Nailer of the Future?

    1 MIN READ
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  • Tools

    Hands On: @AwesomeFramers Reviews the Makita AN924 Spiker

    3 MIN READ
    The nailer has awesome power in Doug fir and LSL, and excellent and consistent drive from engineered lumber to shear panel.
  • How To

    Avoiding Nail Blowouts

    1 MIN READ
  • Tools

    Senco, Alive and Staplin’

    1 MIN READ
    Senco’s NS20XP 16-17-gauge sheathing stapler
  • Tools

    Tool Test: Everwin FCN90L Framing Nailer

    2 MIN READ
  • Tools of the Trade

    A Brief History of Portable Nail Guns

    6 MIN READ
    The first commercialized, fully portable nail gun was a hand-held bulk-fed nailer developed in 1907 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. The machine has a small nail “hopper” that the user filled with .086 x 1-1/4-inch round-head nails. In use, the hopper was shaken so that one nail would randomly feed down the driving shoot. Then you would engage the nailer’s plunger using a mallet - much like the flooring staplers in use today. The mallet that was used had two faces on it: a raw hide face to hit the nailer plunger, and a steel face for the user to finish driving the nail if it didn’t get driven all the way in with the first shot. The nailer never gained great success in its intended purpose to install wood shingles, since in essence it would require three hands to work: one to hold the shingle in place, one to hold the nailer, and one to hit the nailer with the mallet.
  • Tools

    Rebuilding a Framing Nailer

    2 MIN READ
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  • Products/Tools

    Hand-Stapling Electrical Cable May Become a Thing of the Past

    1 MIN READ
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    Laser Levels

    9 MIN READ
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    Building in the Unknown: Pushing Forward with Attainable Zero

    4 MIN READ
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    Why Do We Say Joists and Rafters?

    3 MIN READ
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