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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2010, 03:02:49 pm »
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A good way to tell is the hand forged nail has a taper, machine made nails are made from wire and are not tapered. Exception being cut nails which are cut from a sheet, are square and tapered, I don't know how you would tell the difference there.

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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2010, 11:13:28 pm »
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hmm....thanks a lot for the information.....i need to look into this some more, i have actually thought about seeking out someone who still does blacksmithing, and see what their input might be. because even though they're "just nails" they're a treasure to me....thanks again and if you happen to stumble onto any other interesting information, please let me know.

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hmm....thanks a lot for the information.....i need to look into this some more, i have actually thought about seeking out someone who still does blacksmithing, and see what their input might be. because even though they're "just nails" they're a treasure to me....thanks again and if you happen to stumble onto any other interesting information, please let me know.


Look up farriers in the yellow pages. You'll be surprised by how many you find there.

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« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2010, 10:43:16 am »
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  Thanks for the link

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« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2010, 04:19:19 pm »
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In the UK, digging up iron nails is way too common, and seen by a lot of people as a waste of effort.  Me, I love digging up hand made nails.

Someone took time and effort to craft it, and being fortunate to detect on the site of an old medieval church, I'm chuffed to bits when I find a medieval nail. Smiley


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« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2010, 05:59:48 pm »
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  Interesting post, Ive found a few old copper nails some time ago, there are for boat building. I think il have to go back to the spot to try and get a few more, and se what else the seaside will give up!

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« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2010, 07:06:35 pm »
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Goldnboy, Copper was a favorite because it didn't rust and especially because copper is toxic to ship boreing worms. In the heyday of wooden ships the bottoms of ships were entirely covered with copper Nails. they were placed with the heads overlaping. The ones I've seen pictures of were about 2 inches long and had a head that was about 2 inches square. Good luck with your search. I hope you post pictures of any you find.

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« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2010, 08:38:19 pm »
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are the nails long 3-4 inch?If they are a short size then they look to me as the type for shoeing a work horse.

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« Reply #18 on: July 05, 2010, 12:09:50 am »
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gambol1, the copper nails i found were only two inch long but had a small head, I didnt think much of the find at the time. This thread has got me interested to try and find a few more.  Cool

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« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2010, 03:34:47 pm »
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   the size of the ones i found differ in size.  the first pictures are horseshoe nail, the other ones are for structural building purposes and are a bit longer maybe two to three inches in length.  i find it interesting about the copper nails, I never ever knew that thanks.

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