On 6/13/11 1:52 PM, Josepi wrote:
I have never found that to work for me. It always just stops the nail
penetrating at all and it bends over.

Nails have sharp tips on them for a reason....drill if hard wood or dry
wood.

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"willshak" wrote in message
news When using finish nail in molding, I blunt the sharp end of the nail
beforehand. This allows the nail to 'punch' a path in the wood rather
than 'squeezing' into the wood and possibly splitting the wood.


I don't know what you're doing wrong (other than top posting), but I've
blunted the ends of nails to keep the wood from splitting, I would
guess, hundreds of times and it works great. It's a tried-and-true
technique that probably goes all the way back to the invention of the
modern nail. Cut nails were blunt and sheared the wood fiber when
driven. That was probably an accidental benefit of the process of making
them and not by design.



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