The best looking sqaure nail

[allison86]

Dug this up yesterday at the park it's in great shape

 

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[villagenut]

I like old nails too. I spend more time than I should on cleaning my good ones, but they look nicer when cleaned and coated. Rust never sleeps.

 

[Scrappy]

It's amazing what lasts sometimes.

For your enjoyment. Courtesy of Ivor Hume's " guide to artifacts of colonial America"



Enjoy

Steve

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Machine-made nails have a roughly rectangular cross-section, when viewed from either end.
In production a nail is sheared-off alternately, from FLAT iron stock, then run though the heading process,
which leaves the head still rectangular, but with the thinness of the SHANK, resulting from the gripper, starting just below the head.
These are correctly called "CUT Nails".

Hand-forged nails start from SQUARE stock, have very definite SQUARE-shaped heads, of which often have a faceting-
appearance, or simply looking Rose-headed....our true "SQUARE-HEADED nails".

See attached about some early nail making, taken from:
A Museum of Early American Tools
by Eric Sloane

 

[scruggs]

It's an OLDIE...Nice find!!!