A few months ago I had the opportunity
to try out two of the newer
framing nailers on the market, Paslode's
PowerMaster 5350/S PM and a prototype
of Senco's FramePro 600. These
guns are light-years ahead of the ones I
used 30 years ago, and in many ways are
better than their recent predecessors.
Weight and Power
Both nail guns are very light. At 7.5
pounds, the PowerMaster is the lightest
framing gun on the market; the
FramePro 600 weighs 8 pounds. Most
carpenters prefer light tools because
they're easy to handle and cause less
fatigue than heavy ones.
Neither gun had any trouble driving
nails into framing lumber, but they
tended to recoil when driving fasteners
into harder