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Many household projects involve hammers and nails
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Maybe you're building a piece of furniture, maybe you're putting up trim like this around a window or a door
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The trouble that can happen is that if you don't know how to hammer the nail incorrectly
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you can actually cause a defect in the wood that can sometimes be very, very difficult to repair
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There's two ways to do it. The one way involves the old-fashioned hammer and nail
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How do you hammer a nail in? Simple. You've got to hold on to the nail tightly with your one hand and slowly tap the hammer
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on the head of the nail, making sure that you strike it squarely
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As soon as the nail head gets to within about an eighth of an inch of the surface of the
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wood, you've got to stop. You pull out your nail set. These are nice handy little tools
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They come in different sizes. Match the nail set to the head of the nail and drive the nail about an eighth of an inch
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into the wood. The second way to drive nails that I prefer is an automatic tool
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This is actually an internal combustion engine. It uses gas, a battery, and a spark plug that ignites a charge, and it actually drives the
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nail and it does it very quickly, and there's different types of guns
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This one in particular will drive nice long finish nails, but guess what
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Here's one that drives small itty-bitty nails as well, so that if you're doing really fine
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cabinet work, it works well. And that's the way I like to drive finish nails
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