villagenut
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I have this site that has lots of forged nails and lots of brass nails, all being hand made. But these little homemade fasteners have also shown up here. Instead of a nut and bolt or a clenched nail to hold the wood together, they drove the brass nail and then put a hand cut diamond shaped brass washer over the tip and then pounded it flat, not clenched in order to hold (guessing) two pieces of wood together. There was a blacksmith shop here in the 1840-50 period. Wondering if anyone knows just what this method was used for. and when the method was popular....if at all. Was it ship building related? Thanks for lookin,vn
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