For What It's Worth

They'll fit in your straight-magazine finish gun. They'll never rust. They weigh less than the nails you use now. Sound too good to be true? Not if you can get used to the idea of plastic nails. The surface of Raptor Nails, which are made of a glass/plastic composite material, actually heats up enough from the friction of being driven to fuse to the fibers of the wood. Contractor Carl Hagstrom has blown through several cases of these nails in the past few months, so I asked him what he thought of them: "They're great. They don't have much shear strength, but they're almost impossible to pull out. They drive just like metal nails, though I think