Need a name and source for a tool that my grandfather used to have. What I am looking for is a nail-brad driver. The one that I remember looked like a screwdriver with a large round wooden handle. the shaft was magnetic so that a nail would stick to the end of it & a sleeve would slide over both the nail and shaft holding the nail upright.
I am working on a couple of windows and need a genttler touch than my nail guns can provide.
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Is this what you are looking for? second picture down
http://roseantiquetools.com/store/page12.html
That is what I am looking for
Not sure this will help you but just yesterday I tired of holding 5/8" brads with small needle nosed pliers and a thin, flat stick with a hole in the end. The hole in the stick wasn't bad but many times the head of the brad was larger than the hole and it pulled the brad out when I tried to remove the stick.
So I took a little 1/4" rare earth magnet from Lee Valley, drilled a hole in the center of the cup that is designed to hold the magnet in wood, nailed it to the end of a 3/8" dowes and this jig allows me to place the nail exactly where want it, tap it with a little 10oz Vaughn hammer, remove the magnet and then drive the nail.
John
Abe,
This one is $6 from Lee Valley -
http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/page.aspx?c=2&p=32023&cat=3,41306,41331
Dan Kornfeld, Owner/President - Odyssey Wood Design, Inc.
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