Advantages of rosehead nails

Traditional hand-forged nails feature a gently tapering shank with four sharp edges. When driven into timber they part the fibres without splitting them, allowing the fibres to close back around the nail, producing a very fast fixing, four edges allowing a much greater grip through increased friction. Additionally, as hand forged iron is very ductile, […]

History of nails

Nails have been around ever since man started to work metal. The discovery of iron, tough and durable but more importantly more abundant than any other metal, helped to revolutionise construction methods as nails could now be produced in greater than ever numbers and allowed two pieces of wood to be joined together without the […]