Alan DuBoff
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I probly spelled it wrong
I was thinking of that outfit that sells (used to sell??) cut nails and stuff. I don't think any of theirs were forged though, other than some of the fancy heads.
The only nails I ever made were out of silver wire for a little box, but they were nowhere near as involved as your's.
Steve, wouldn't it be better to use screws in concrete? Unless one was restoring an old project, but screws/lag-bolts/epoxied-bolts all seem to work better, in my experience with decking, but I've never nailed it to concrete...
Mike,
Been thinking about this. I 'spose if you were to use flat stock, and a large hot chisel, you could cut the angled tapers off a piece of flat stock, then just pound the nail head.
I'm having a hard time wondering how they would automate things to speed it up that quickly.
When they say colonial period, I am thinking from the 1700s-1800s. I know that steam powered machinery did appear during the 1800s, that could have facilitated cutting the steel nails on powered machinery, but doesn't the colonial period denote pre-industrial-revolution?
Some of this history facinates me.