Which Finish Nailer do You Need?
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- The uses for each of the Finish Nailers, Practical buying advice, and my best tips over 30 years of use!
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MY FAVOURITE TOOLS (That I own and use!)
------------------------SAWS-------------------------
DEWALT 10" PORTABLE TABLE SAW WITH STAND
-The rack and pinion fence and lightweight body are a winning combination!
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MAKITA 18V TRACK SAW
-This is a game changer when it comes to breaking down sheet good and making precise cuts!
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MILWAUKEE M12 OSCILLATING MULTI TOOL
-The brand new version and the old one are both 1st class all the way!
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-------------------NAIL GUNS-----------------
DEWALT 18G BRAD NAILER
-This a cheap gun that performs as well as any gun I've used! Great tool clip as well.
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GREX 23G PIN NAILER
-Crisp holes and fairly consistent shooting.
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MAKITA SUBCOMPACT SET
-Extremely lightweight and surprisingly power. These are two of my favourite tools!
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Festool CXS
-The most precise drill in the world and my favourite tool!
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------------------------LASERS------------------------
DEWALT LINE LASER
-Reasonably priced, works great, sticks to drywall corner beads excellent!
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LEICA DISTO D2 MEASURE DEVICE
-Super accurate and easy to use!
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------------------------VACUUMS-------------------
MAKITA 18V CORDLESS VACUUM
-This is my 3rd Favourite tool. Sucks surprisingly well and the portability is soon handy!
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FESTOOL CT MINI
-A great portable vacuum for a mitre saw or any other hand held tool.
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-----------------------TOOL STORAGE----------------
FESTOOL SYSTAINER
-A great integrated system that all locks together, and can be used as a works bench as well.
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FESTOOL ROLLING CART
-Exceptional little rolling cart for the sustainers and a great way to move heavy cabinets!
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Another small tip that I was taught was when nailing on stain grade material orient the nailer perpendicular to the grain. You want the nail hole running parallel to the grain pattern. Looks way better when filled.
Good tips 👍 agree with all that.
Except we use 16 gauge/18 gauge nailers inside predominantly and 15 gauge outside.
Some great tips on chisel point direction. I think you mentioned it another video and its made a big difference knowing that!! Thanks!
Your friendly Canadian vibe is great.
Thanks
The milwaukee cordless nailer are fantastic. I have the 18, 16, and 23. Theyre all super
I inherited that very Hitachi 15g nailer maybe 20 years ago. I loved it, as to be expected Hitachi is famously the best name in nailers. I was trimming houses and I kept running into a cabinet installer that was a sub for the local cabinet contractor, and he showed me his Sencos (coincidentally the same guy that introduced me to Festool). I fell in love with them instantly. IDK if it was a "grass is greener" situation, but they just felt better to me. And bonus, they are oil free and virtually maintenance free. I got my 15g and my 18g Sencos 15 years ago, and I've literally never done a thing with them except take them out, use them, and put them back. They work every time. They set the nail the same every time. I only recently retired them from my main everyday drivers, but that was due to being fed up with compressors and hoses, not the guns. I bought the new Hitachi 18v 15g/18g guns, and I'm very pleased. The only reason I didn't go with Senco's cordless system is because they didn't make a 15g, 18g, and a 21g that all used the same battery platform. And Hitachi did, just in case I wanted a 21g, which I have not. I still use my Cadex 23g and my little Rolair hot dog compressor for pinning cabinet trim, but for trimming houses it's exponentially nicer to not have to drag hoses around. IMO
Bonus tip: I find that pre-hung doors almost always need to have the swing stops refastened, So I started taking them right off, and nailing the door jambs under them, then refastening them with 18g nails. So there are no 15g holes to fill on the door. As I'm writing this I'm realizing this application may be the perfect excuse to buy the 21g Hitachi.
Here in NZ we use 16 gauge Paslodes almost exclusively. You rarely see 15 gauge, only cabinetmakers and joiners use 18 gauge, and I've never seen a 23 gauge in the flesh. Then again our finish carpentry is very simple. On new homes and most houses over the last 40 years, it's nothing but 60x10mm and 40x10mm bullnose or single bevel for architraves and skirting (casing and baseboards for Americans), and older homes have 40mm or 28mm beveled cornice, or 28mm or 35mm cove scotia for the scotia (crown molding for Americans) while newer homes all use gypsum based coving that's installed by the plasterers, or it's square stopped.
Interesting! I’ve seen some of the finishes on Scott Browns channel. I did have a 16g gun briefly but returned it.
@@TheFunnyCarpenter Yeah Scott is not our average kind of kiwi carpenter though. He handles stuff that's much more on the high end compared to most of us, and he tends to be much more particular about small details. This is evidenced by his massive tool addiction (I have that problem too). He uses 18 gauge, which is really unusual for us. I personally would like 18, 16 and 15, but right now all I have is 16. I don't use it for door and window installation, I hand nail with jolt heads old school style, as our building code actually doesn't allow any other method. I don't use a finishing gun for exterior trim work either, I hand nail it. So really an 18 gauge would be used once in a blue moon for clear finished native hardwood trims maybe, and a 15 gauge occasionally for larger finishing work where more hold is required. My 16 gauge still wpuld need cleaning once every two months, because I go through thousands upon thousands of nails with it.
Fascinating how different this job is between countries with very similar histories.
Patrick all very interesting stuff Patrick! It would be pretty cool one day to travel around and chat with carpenters from different countries.
I've been using nailers for the same amount of time as you. Almost exactly. I, of course, am aware of the chisel point feature of the brads. And I , of course, came to the opposite conclusion of which way to orient the direction of said chisel point while nailing. So, yes, blowout city on less than opportune occasions. So, why don't I go ahead and change my old ways and be happy with the results? 😁
I can't remember the logic behind my thinking on this matter. Sometimes we just need to be told.
Thanks for the video!
Yes keep these videos coming... My dream home is going to be materialised through your tips and tricks fr 💜
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying the vids:)
Very detailed video. Lots of good info. I have a pretty good collection of air nailers myself!
“Chisel Points” ..new info..helpful info to have. Have both Bostich and Hitachi. Neither have ever given me trouble.
Cheers Ted!
Thankyou so much for this video & this channel!! So many great tips & sound advice. Just what i was looking for
Cheers 🍻
I really like the Senco battery operated guns because no matter how hard you press down, it doesn’t leave more than a small nail hole. The grex guns I like except for sometimes it would fire two nails at once and that has happened to me with more than one grex gun 23 guage, or dewalt is great for the price!
Interesting about the senco gun. Hopefully I can try one!
The Sencos are good, but watch out for screws coming loose on the magazine. Loctite is your friend with those things.
@@Patrick-857 i will watch out for that, thank you.
These are all great videos. Wish I would have seen this last year
Great video I like the hitachi brad nailer it's cheap and leaves nice hole
Thanks for checking out the vid Bryan!
Prefer my Hitachi's -theve made me lots of money over the yrs and have been super durable and realiable
great video / tips , keep them coming
Cheers Eli!
@0:50 mhmm. @0:52 ooooh
Didn’t realize the gauge size corresponded to how many times it was processed, interesting.
$5 says if you get the M12 micro liner for the next giveaway, you’re not going to want to let it go.
🙃 lol if I get the gun I’ll have to buy it! I’d rather just make vids about the stuff I would actually buy... plus that way I don’t have someone asking every five minutes if I’ve tested their product:)
But good job Ryan with your comments, your a good host
Here is how I always get "lucky."
I don't have the time to do a lot of research, unless I am buying something really expensive. The $80.00 18 gauge nail gin I just bought, just didn't rate my wasting a lot of time learning about nail guns.
But still, I wound up with one of the best guns on the market according to our friend here. That seems to always happen for me.
How do I get so lucky? Well, that's because I only buy DeWalt tools. I just buy the DeWalt, and trust them to have put out a great tool. They have never let me down.
Thanks for your informative videos. Question. I have removed closet and bedroom doors, frames, and split jambs in preparation to hang barn doors. I am planning on reusing the frames (still intact). Making new jambs that are flat, an inch thick, and are KD&HT Square Edge Common Board from Home Depot. Which gauge nail would you use 15g or 18g? Thus, a brad gun or a finishing gun? Will rent whatever you think is best for nailing jamb and frame. Thanks for your help!! -Rodney
Thanks for the video! What do you recommend for hose and fittings? I bought some cheap kit years ago and the leak like crazy, had to use plumbers tape!
Just got a compressor, and i was thinking about buying a nailer, thank you for the tips man!!! And also you have a compressor and mine needs oil. Do you know what oil it needs? 🙂🙃
Hey man they call it “non detergent” compressor oil. Your best bet is to walk into Home Depot and find the air compressor tool section it will be there in a bottle for like $10-15 bucks. Harbor freight also carries it too. Cheap $10. Same oil either way I’ve used both brands for a decade no issues.
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Alright!! Thanks man
thanks for the answer Jordan!
@@TheFunnyCarpenter i love the community here man !!!!
Thanks!
Can you add a link to a compressor you recommend? Need that too.
That particular compressor doesn’t have any link that I know of.
I like the nail and nail gun which doesn’t end up in my thumb ... just say’n.
Those r the good ones!
The good electric brad nail guns are freakin' expensive. I got the cheap $90 one from Amazon and it barely gets through 2 pieces of 3/4" pine with 1-1/4" 18g brad nails. It gets the job done but its extremely poor quality. Half the time I have to finish the nails with a hammer, the other half of the time it leave a nasty wide indentation in the board. Do yourselves a favor and invest in the dewalt.
Ouch that sounds horrible! Seems like that gun might need a drop kick!
Another helpful video. BTW what Canadian city do you work in?
Thanks Ric! I'm in the Fraser Valley, Chilliwack BC.
@@TheFunnyCarpenter We’re practically neighbours. I’m in North Vancouver
Nifty little trick.
But the main question comes about video title.
How is this video performing in comparison to your other vids. Since it has word "gun" in the title. It seems to me that everything gets censored by using that term nowadays. I just try to stick with using "nailer" instead a "gun" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interesting... I should switch it and see what happens. Thank u
Hitachi is now metabo
I've bled my own blood by nail once or twice 🤣
Sooner or later it happens to us all!
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Who on earth is using air tools. How you going to lug a compressor from plot to plot . Madness .
Paslow is the standard. Hitachi number 2 and Makita DeWalt are 3 and 4 . Never in 20 years as a chippie have I ever seen anyone lug a compressor on to sight.
that's because you're a chippie and not in a carpenter. In Merica we shoot pneumatic.
Nice clean hole 🤭
Another redundant video and chanel
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I love your channel and videos and have found them very helpful as an apprentice carpenter. I don't think you're that funny though. Awesome framers is funnier. But you're more awesome!!!
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