For those wondering about the blunt nail. My dad was a carpenter for 40 years and taught me that trick when I was a kid. According to him it works by crushing just enough fibers ahead of the nail as it drives through rather than completely splitting all the fibers outward so the wood has LESS of a chance to split. It works most of the time but not 100% of the time. Dad taught me a lot before he passed away a few years ago.
I've been a carpenter for a long time and dulling the tip of the nail really does work that well. It's not a trick many people know. Also tool oil on a screw helps the same way soap does. That's usually what's more readily accessible to me on a job site. Thanks for the great videos!
You don't have to flatten the tip of the nail. Look closely at the point of a nail two sides are smooth and 2 sides are Sharp. When you bang the nail into the wood make sure the sharp sides of the nail Point are cross grain and they will cut the fibres instead of splitting them. Also you can use soap as a lubricant for sliding wooden drawers Etc
Exactly. Also he was hitting the first nail harder, which also makes his point invalid. Best thing is not taking a gamble and pre drill a tiny hole before using a nail or screw.
@@PANTA-Music so the blunt nail isn't a thing at all? I get those splits lots of times and pre-drilling takes a lot of time, so a shortcut would be GREAT! Any tips if the blunt nail isn't a thing?
When I was an apprentice carpenter over 50 years ago we,we're taught to stand the head of the nail on something solid, such as concrete or steel, and tap the pointed end of the nail and flatten it, not too much, the nail will then cut through the timber. This only really works on softwoods such as pinus radiata, you need to drill a pilot hole for hardwoods and hard softwoods. Please note that not all softwoods are soft and not all hardwoods are hard.
Blunting the end of a nail does definitely helps, I've used that technique for years. He made sure the first one would split by hanging it over the edge of a raised radius edge. He probably would have split the board if he had done second blunted nail the same way. Let me say it again the blunting end of the nail is pretty good technique that I've used for years. I like the suggestion of making sure you line the x point of the nail isn't lined up to encourage the splitting. My favorite technique if time is provided, is take one of you're new straight nails cut the head off and chuck it in a drill and pre-drill a hole in the board. Make sure you support the board flat down on another piece wood. If you hold the board in your hand you can split using this technique. It takes extra force to use a nail to drill holes in wood. Make sure the nail your using is straight and doesn't wobble in the drill chuck.
Use bees wax instead of soap. I had been taught that soaps are hydrophilic and will pull moisture out of the wood next to the screw causing rust and corrosion.
The second nail isn't hammered in as far as the first, and is done over the hard surface. The second screw goes into the softer lighter coloured wood. Just use a drill one size up.
Blunting the nail is what made the difference. Instead of pushing the grain apart and causing a split it tears through the wood fibers. Source: I'm a union carpenter since '07. Edit: Also, don't predrill for nails. They hold in via friction. If you remove material you remove friction. Conversely, yes, you should predrill screws to the size of the shaft. The threads do all of the work, so you don't need the friction of displaced material.
Ye, you can also see that the second nail also made this pece of wood crack ;) Personally i just use thinner nails for small pices of wood... Edit: *for thin pices of wood
@@jutub3662 - That's not how it works. There are different nails for different jobs, and a correct size of nail depending on the thickness of wood that you are nailing through. If you choose the wrong size fastener, you risk your piece falling apart and hurting someone during use.
@@JCPRuckus Well, i am hobby-carpenter for few years, and i have made many different things out of wood- from furniture to carved spoons . I just wanted to sed that in this particular example, i would use thinner nail, "small" wasnt acurate word indeed, i should have written "thinner pices of wood" ;) Maybe the method showed on video really works, i have never tryed it, since my nails cause cracks in the wood extremely rarely :D
Hi Mistry - I am a carpenter myself, and I've gotta say: this video is plastered with things a carpenter wouldn't even think about doing . From wrong screws to wrong use of drilling machine - I would recommend doing "tips" videos on things you have a clue of.
Yeah that soap on the screw trick is a game changer. An old timer showed me that several years ago and I've used soap a million times since. The next time you stay in a hotel grab yourself a few of those little soaps to throw in your drill kit and or tool box.
Clip head off nail, use nail to drill hole, drive another nail through hole with no splitting. Simple, effective, and professional. We use this method in oak trim without ever splitting.
Clem McGuinness Why not just use the bit drilled the hole with? Or drill the proper size hole to begin with? That’s the worst “trick” of the 3 and will eventually ruin your chuck as well.
2nd is wrong: you put the first nail into the hardest part of the wood(the darkest) and the second one in the soft part of it. This is easly credible for whos never worked with wood! This is so stupid
I just started woodworking so forgive my ignorance. I almost feel like these tips are more like hacks in a jam (e.g. missing the correct bit size or tool). Before each one I thought (1) Pilot hole (2) pilot hole or self tapping screws (3) Larger pilot hole or maybe a long sand bit on a dremmel tool (if those exist). The last one def made me think quick hack because (again forgive my ignorance), I felt like any chuck subjected to holding sand paper regularly would lose the edge grip (and subsequent torque) that holds bits firmly. You might be better to also place a small bit in the roll to make the sand paper more firm (against the chuck wall?) and less prone to moving and inadvertently sanding the inside of the chuck.
brokensword8402 Hi. The part where he pounded the point of the nail is a good old method to avoid splitting wood as you nail it. . But you don't have to hit it six times. Just one or two quick taps flattens the point and prevents it from splitting the wood usually. This is important to do for dry wood espevially. The soap one was interesting, as opposed to predrilling. The sandpaper one I never saw before but I thought it was pretty good. I've done a lot of woodworking, well, I was a handyman actually. That flattening of the nail point is one I needed to use many times. 🙏
Pre-drilling your holes will prevent splitting and sink screw heads every time. Also if you used a slightly larger bit for the bolt hole then you wouldn't have to roll up a piece of sandpaper and jam it in your drill to reem it out. Lmao! No tips here, just poor workmanship.
Those are old tips. You flatten the tip if you dont want the wood to split. You will obviously pre-drill them if you have plenty of nails to hammer. But when I forgot my drill, I flattened nails too. It works. He just should´ve nailed both on flat. The bit hole is maybe also just a tip if you do not have a bigger drill available.
1) Blunting the nail causes the tip to tear through the wood, instead of utilizing the full affect of the 4-sided wedge that is a nail tip. With the advent of inexpensive nail guns, this technique is not used nearly as much as it was in, say, 1975? Pay attention, though, to the direction of the chisel on the string of nails/brads you're using, or you can still split the end of a board; only more quickly and with a satisfying 'ca-chunk'. 2) The soap lubricates the screw so as to make twisting it directly into the walnut board go somewhat easier. And removal is easier as well. 1st- bad choice of screw. Those bugle headed sheetrock screws are very prone to popping the heads off, perhaps due to the double-thread design; the screw goes in more quickly, but provides much less pulling power compared to a regular single thread type screw. Use the right screw to start with. 2nd, I don't install screws without providing a tapered countersunk pilot hole. IDK what it is about being a cabinetmaker for 40 years that causes one to do things right the first time. It just does. 3) using a rolled up piece of abrasive paper to enlarge a too-small hole. If you have only the one hole to correct, this is a solution, but you can easily make the hole too big and end up with a sloppy fit. Here's an idea- use some calipers to measure the machine bolt before you drill a single hole, and then choose the best sized drill bit to accomodate the bolt? And make that first hole in a piece of scrap to test fit it? Just a suggestion...
What was the purpose of the soap in the screw? I noticed went in further then the other and they were both put into different grains of the wood too so that would affect how the screw goes in.
Why the on first piece did you hang over the edge, and not the second? Well the reason the first piece split is because you had it hanging over. Why not the second piece... now that does help but the vibration didn't help the first pieces case... JS LOL
Thats just... Bad. Why would you just blunt the nail? How can that work.??? Ok so real trick to not split the wood: Drill a hole in that wood before you use the nail. Just make sure the drill bit has smaller diameter than the nail otherways the nail wont hold in place. Edit: You can do this with the screw too.
I actually liked the last one. I have been in a few situations where that would have been a better solution than trying to ream the whole open with my drill bit like im trying to impress a porn star.
For those wondering about the blunt nail. My dad was a carpenter for 40 years and taught me that trick when I was a kid. According to him it works by crushing just enough fibers ahead of the nail as it drives through rather than completely splitting all the fibers outward so the wood has LESS of a chance to split. It works most of the time but not 100% of the time. Dad taught me a lot before he passed away a few years ago.
F to your legendary dad
Yeah what else did he teach u? Maybe we can learn from him to.
i tried it simply and by the blunt way and the with the blunt way it cracked 50%less thanks a lot to u and ur Father
plz tell more tricks so we can increase our knowledge
Your dad is a legend
I've been a carpenter for a long time and dulling the tip of the nail really does work that well. It's not a trick many people know. Also tool oil on a screw helps the same way soap does. That's usually what's more readily accessible to me on a job site. Thanks for the great videos!
You don't have to flatten the tip of the nail. Look closely at the point of a nail two sides are smooth and 2 sides are Sharp. When you bang the nail into the wood make sure the sharp sides of the nail Point are cross grain and they will cut the fibres instead of splitting them. Also you can use soap as a lubricant for sliding wooden drawers Etc
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Very inspiring,, good job 👍👍 success
Very useful for me, who start learning about DIY work
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A good craftsman never blames his tools!
And a broke craftsman makes his own tools from scratch :)
@@92GreyBlue A bad craftsman(workman) blames his tools!
Yup
Yeah, but a /really/ good craftsman knows when his tools are actually to blame.
I like how he hangs wood over edge on first video, then does it with solid surface underneath it
Exactly. Also he was hitting the first nail harder, which also makes his point invalid. Best thing is not taking a gamble and pre drill a tiny hole before using a nail or screw.
I was thinking the same too.
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@@PANTA-Music so the blunt nail isn't a thing at all? I get those splits lots of times and pre-drilling takes a lot of time, so a shortcut would be GREAT! Any tips if the blunt nail isn't a thing?
Try it. It works . When you hit the tip of the nail like that it doesn't split the wood. Im not sure how it works but it does.
Very good thanks sir God bless you and your family Amen
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When I was an apprentice carpenter over 50 years ago we,we're taught to stand the head of the nail on something solid, such as concrete or steel, and tap the pointed end of the nail and flatten it, not too much, the nail will then cut through the timber. This only really works on softwoods such as pinus radiata, you need to drill a pilot hole for hardwoods and hard softwoods. Please note that not all softwoods are soft and not all hardwoods are hard.
Blunting the end of a nail does definitely helps, I've used that technique for years.
He made sure the first one would split by hanging it over the edge of a raised radius edge. He probably would have split the board if he had done second blunted nail the same way. Let me say it again the blunting end of the nail is pretty good technique that I've used for years.
I like the suggestion of making sure you line the x point of the nail isn't lined up to encourage the splitting.
My favorite technique if time is provided, is take one of you're new straight nails cut the head off and chuck it in a drill and pre-drill a hole in the board. Make sure you support the board flat down on another piece wood. If you hold the board in your hand you can split using this technique. It takes extra force to use a nail to drill holes in wood. Make sure the nail your using is straight and doesn't wobble in the drill chuck.
Use bees wax instead of soap. I had been taught that soaps are hydrophilic and will pull moisture out of the wood next to the screw causing rust and corrosion.
What about using candle, instead?..
Few people are likely to have beeswax around the house. Everyone has soap.
Floorwax also good.
@@invisiblegrey4953 ,please
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The second nail isn't hammered in as far as the first, and is done over the hard surface. The second screw goes into the softer lighter coloured wood. Just use a drill one size up.
That trick does still work though.
Blunting the nail is what made the difference. Instead of pushing the grain apart and causing a split it tears through the wood fibers.
Source: I'm a union carpenter since '07.
Edit: Also, don't predrill for nails. They hold in via friction. If you remove material you remove friction. Conversely, yes, you should predrill screws to the size of the shaft. The threads do all of the work, so you don't need the friction of displaced material.
Ye, you can also see that the second nail also made this pece of wood crack ;) Personally i just use thinner nails for small pices of wood... Edit: *for thin pices of wood
@@jutub3662 - That's not how it works. There are different nails for different jobs, and a correct size of nail depending on the thickness of wood that you are nailing through. If you choose the wrong size fastener, you risk your piece falling apart and hurting someone during use.
@@JCPRuckus Well, i am hobby-carpenter for few years, and i have made many different things out of wood- from furniture to carved spoons . I just wanted to sed that in this particular example, i would use thinner nail, "small" wasnt acurate word indeed, i should have written "thinner pices of wood" ;) Maybe the method showed on video really works, i have never tryed it, since my nails cause cracks in the wood extremely rarely :D
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Tip - use an old toothbrush to clean residue off sandpaper, and it doesn't damage it.
Or throw it away and buy a new one
Yeah, any brush would do - that was a little hard to watch.
wow! Thank you so much for this. Was a big help.
Good information
Hi Mistry -
I am a carpenter myself, and I've gotta say: this video is plastered with things a carpenter wouldn't even think about doing . From wrong screws to wrong use of drilling machine - I would recommend doing "tips" videos on things you have a clue of.
I haven't touch a wood for years now...and I'm still watching this 😪
you can give advice to carpenters if u ever come across one
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So where were you sleeping? On road?
Used the first two tips countless times. I used a candle instead of soap, always carried a bit of broken candle in my tool kit.
Using soap is wrong,
Can use a hard lubricant,
Eg: Grease
Otherwise the nail get corrosion
Wow amazing..the first one is very helpful for me.. thanks a lot
woww... amazing Mr.
That s a good idea I will soap up my nails I need for the job am doing only 5000 to go. 🤣
Soap is water based will make your nail coroded
I was taught the old way, dip them in varnish. Nope just lean into that torque
Muy práctico, excelente.
Gostei das instruções do vídeo. Muito bom.
Obrigado.
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Thanks very much 💕❤️ 💖 you are great🥺please uplod more video like this
NAILED IT!!!!
Nah, he screwed up.
I like how u showed the thumbnail right in the start
😀
Nice hints, but: Soap can corrode the fastener. Use Bees Wax instead
dietero100 i usually use vaseline. Works like a charm
Because soap has Sodium Chlorides in it.👍
JUST DO IT!
Any wax will work.
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So nice video❤and good job
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I thought that last one was a slim jim for some reason and I was like there’s no way he’s drilling a hole with a meatstick...
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That's what she said.
Love watching woodworking videos and then read the comments below of all the know-it-all people lol
Those are good tips I've not seen before, thanks mate.
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Yeah that soap on the screw trick is a game changer. An old timer showed me that several years ago and I've used soap a million times since. The next time you stay in a hotel grab yourself a few of those little soaps to throw in your drill kit and or tool box.
Candle also
@@garlabanfly Even better than soap.
Using some saliva works well too, plus you get to leave a little bit of yourself with each project 🤣
And the rust will keep the screw in!
Lol
Guys, do not touch a screw that you have used a driver to remove from wood - it will burn your fingers
friction
Bruh
Good woodworking👍👍
Thanks for the very2 useful tricks
Clip head off nail, use nail to drill hole, drive another nail through hole with no splitting. Simple, effective, and professional. We use this method in oak trim without ever splitting.
Good
the sandpaper is a good hack. thanks
Clem McGuinness
Why not just use the bit drilled the hole with? Or drill the proper size hole to begin with? That’s the worst “trick” of the 3 and will eventually ruin your chuck as well.
@@Spoons7414 I know right just use a sanding stick this guys an idiot
Yup youtube "nailed" the recommended.
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Amazing and very brilliant ideas
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I would have used a larger drill bit for the last "trick"
😂😂😂
Maybe in a pinch
Sometimes you dont have the right size bit for what you need. Its a good trick that would have saved me buying a larger bit this week
You're not doing the test equally
He drilled the second screw on softer sap wood unlike the harder wood on the first screw
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@@hildagraham5846 thanks for this guidance
1❌ wrong
2 ✔
3✔
Yeah , I taught the same thing !
2nd is wrong: you put the first nail into the hardest part of the wood(the darkest) and the second one in the soft part of it. This is easly credible for whos never worked with wood! This is so stupid
1 works, dulling the end of a nail will force the nail to tear through the wood instead of spread the wood like a sharp nail does
2❌because soap make rust on screw.
3 unnecessary
There all wrong mate.
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Wonderful and amazing!
Thanks for your good information
Learned the nail trick in my 1964 shop class!
I just started woodworking so forgive my ignorance. I almost feel like these tips are more like hacks in a jam (e.g. missing the correct bit size or tool). Before each one I thought (1) Pilot hole (2) pilot hole or self tapping screws (3) Larger pilot hole or maybe a long sand bit on a dremmel tool (if those exist).
The last one def made me think quick hack because (again forgive my ignorance), I felt like any chuck subjected to holding sand paper regularly would lose the edge grip (and subsequent torque) that holds bits firmly. You might be better to also place a small bit in the roll to make the sand paper more firm (against the chuck wall?) and less prone to moving and inadvertently sanding the inside of the chuck.
brokensword8402 Hi. The part where he pounded the point of the nail is a good old method to avoid splitting wood as you nail it. . But you don't have to hit it six times. Just one or two quick taps flattens the point and prevents it from splitting the wood usually. This is important to do for dry wood espevially. The soap one was interesting, as opposed to predrilling. The sandpaper one I never saw before but I thought it was pretty good. I've done a lot of woodworking, well, I was a handyman actually. That flattening of the nail point is one I needed to use many times. 🙏
“Look, the hole is round.”
[Drills with sand paper]
“Now it’s not round!!!”
Not a bad idea otherwise.
Genial . Gracias! Para poner en práctica
Thak you so much i really enjoy the video
Pre-drilling your holes will prevent splitting and sink screw heads every time. Also if you used a slightly larger bit for the bolt hole then you wouldn't have to roll up a piece of sandpaper and jam it in your drill to reem it out. Lmao!
No tips here, just poor workmanship.
And yet you watched the entire video from start to end. lol
Peter Marmo
Yeah, hoping I'd actually see some tips. Go figure.
Those are old tips. You flatten the tip if you dont want the wood to split. You will obviously pre-drill them if you have plenty of nails to hammer. But when I forgot my drill, I flattened nails too. It works. He just should´ve nailed both on flat. The bit hole is maybe also just a tip if you do not have a bigger drill available.
Good video
Lol...
Maybe add some commentary behind how and why this works. I was confused about the point of some of the techniques.
1) Blunting the nail causes the tip to tear through the wood, instead of utilizing the full affect of the 4-sided wedge that is a nail tip.
With the advent of inexpensive nail guns, this technique is not used nearly as much as it was in, say, 1975? Pay attention, though, to the direction of the chisel on the string of nails/brads you're using, or you can still split the end of a board; only more quickly and with a satisfying 'ca-chunk'.
2) The soap lubricates the screw so as to make twisting it directly into the walnut board go somewhat easier. And removal is easier as well.
1st- bad choice of screw. Those bugle headed sheetrock screws are very prone to popping the heads off, perhaps due to the double-thread design; the screw goes in more quickly, but provides much less pulling power compared to a regular single thread type screw. Use the right screw to start with.
2nd, I don't install screws without providing a tapered countersunk pilot hole. IDK what it is about being a cabinetmaker for 40 years that causes one to do things right the first time. It just does.
3) using a rolled up piece of abrasive paper to enlarge a too-small hole.
If you have only the one hole to correct, this is a solution, but you can easily make the hole too big and end up with a sloppy fit. Here's an idea- use some calipers to measure the machine bolt before you drill a single hole, and then choose the best sized drill bit to accomodate the bolt? And make that first hole in a piece of scrap to test fit it? Just a suggestion...
Princess Leia Organa he drilling in a not on number 2
@@shaylynwonky2651 zfz
What was the purpose of the soap in the screw? I noticed went in further then the other and they were both put into different grains of the wood too so that would affect how the screw goes in.
Lubrication.
wow nice trick and thank you for sharing this video
GREAT IDEAS! EXTREMELY USEFUL!
My old man taught me that one years ago.
People: why this in recommendation video?
Me: why i am watching this
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You're an IT guy, right?
Now the wood smells like spring soap
Very good information 👍👍
These DIY RUclips videos are the best. Can't ever skip the video without liking it.
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That first one does work, i've done it many times. Just try it.
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Never take tips from someone who purchased that drill 😂
Particles of sandpaper fall into the chuck and damage the drill.
Dobt worry bud the drill cost him like 5 bucks
Why the on first piece did you hang over the edge, and not the second? Well the reason the first piece split is because you had it hanging over. Why not the second piece... now that does help but the vibration didn't help the first pieces case... JS LOL
And pre drill the hole a tad bit smaller for a pilot as well
Wao so nice information. Thank you
Good man. Thanks!
I am so sure that you will find good way to make it on stodoys.
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Couple taps of the nail point is all you need to avoid splitting wood. Usually. 😁🙏
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Bastard u think we are fool ...nails hammered in different ways, drilled on different wood type
" use soap " or just pre drill 🤔
Or use the right type of screws
Or use an impact driver
Thats just... Bad.
Why would you just blunt the nail? How can that work.???
Ok so real trick to not split the wood: Drill a hole in that wood before you use the nail. Just make sure the drill bit has smaller diameter than the nail otherways the nail wont hold in place.
Edit: You can do this with the screw too.
The trick is called "piloting" a nail/screw.
Some screws (typically sheet metal screws) are even self tapping (aka self piloting)
I've seen master carpenters blunt nail ends for years. This technique pushes the wood through the hole instead of pushing it to the side. 😊
Nice tip!! thank you!!!
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Pre_drilling is better for sure. and just drill the right size hole for the bolts.
You can use woodprix instructions to build it in the cheapest way.
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But in India sope is the cheapest 😂😂 only 1$
The thumbnail was the first video wow
Thanks for tips, 👍👍👍
Very smart! Thank you for sharing these helpful ideas with us 🖒
I actually liked the last one. I have been in a few situations where that would have been a better solution than trying to ream the whole open with my drill bit like im trying to impress a porn star.
first one with the nail u didn't try it on the edge of the table cause u know the second time would split
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That watch is so big that I can tell the time from here.
LMAO I saw that too!
Really you're genius
Wow amazing😍