Carpentry advice sought

[SvilleKid]

BEST ADVICE for trim:

Buy or rent a brad gun and an air compressor. If you have an air compressor, you are ahead of the game. I'll never use a hammer again for trim work. Even the inexpensive brad guns will do trim great. They even countersink the brad heads for easy touch-up finishing. Just make sure the gun will shoot a variety of brad lengths, up to at least 1 1/2 inches. 18 gauge brads are pretty much the standard.

Good luck.

[Col. Kurtz]

Originally Posted by SvilleKid

BEST ADVICE for trim:

Buy or rent a brad gun and an air compressor. If you have an air compressor, you are ahead of the game. I'll never use a hammer again for trim work. Even the inexpensive brad guns will do trim great. They even countersink the brad heads for easy touch-up finishing. Just make sure the gun will shoot a variety of brad lengths, up to at least 1 1/2 inches. 18 gauge brads are pretty much the standard.

Good luck.

Advice taken. Budget says I'll be using a hammer and set. I have the compressor, but I think by the time I go buy or rent a nail gun I can just grunt through this one.

Here is a link to my photo bucket of the almost completed project. As you can see, the scope is quite small, and I'm not *itching due to the damage that a lot of neighbors have.

http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc267/jdubx2/

Sorry for being vague. I was trying to not clutter the board with my minor project.

Keep it coming guys. I appreciate all the help.

[RGD.]

Originally Posted by Col. Kurtz

. . . I'll be using a hammer and set. . . .

Wow - people still do that?





Ron

[Col. Kurtz]

Originally Posted by RGD.

Wow - people still do that?





Ron

Poor folks do.