[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 15

[Dave Smucker]

L-shape or an offset head were common for slate (roofing) nails, but these were in copper in most cases I think.

Dave

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:32:39 -0500
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> From: fredz72 at cableone.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 15
> 
> Mike,
> What is the advantage of doing that?
> 
> At 11:00 AM 9/22/2009, you wrote:
> >   So I
> >haven't spotted any butterfly nails but quite a few "finish" nails
> >made by putting a smallish-to-medium hand-forged nail on the anvil and
> >just mashing the head cold from one side so that, in one direction,
> >it's the same thickness as the shank.
> >
> >
> >- Mike
> 
> Thank you,
> Fred Zickrick, fredz72 at cableone.net 
> 
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