FrameCo
On what looks like Frameco's own website it says:
...into the hardest of timbers... so oak. Exact webpage here: http://www.clubframeco.com/picture_fram ... ls.html#q2clubframeco.com wrote:The powerful cam action of the handle combined with the size of the PushMaster drives V-Nails into the hardest of timbers."
Lion
Lion who sell it in the UK, say in their description "most timbers" so I sent in a question saying which timbers would you say NOT to use it with. They came back saying
FFLion wrote:As this item is for hobby framing then we would not suggest using hard woods such as oak and ash with this item. It would be suitable for more soft woods such as Pine or Ayous.
There's also a comment on this thread "How do you successfully join Oak mouldings" here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4456&p=40726&hilit= ... ter#p40726 by a member not seen since 2011
So...sim.on wrote:Frameco Benchmaster (don't laugh) with a strap clamp. You can crush rocks with those things.
Anyone appart from the absent Sim.on actually used this thing to crush rocks... er I mean same thing: stick vnails into oak? I'm going to PM Sim.on, see if I get a response and ask him for more info, but wondered if anyone who's currently active in the forum got the experience.
I am tempted to trust FrameCo's claim... afterall, they've made the thing so one would have thought if the claim was wrong they'd have been taken to task over it before now... of course, that'd be in an ideal world.
£160 is a lot to shell out and find it does not do it, when I fell for a Logan Studio thing c/w a design flaw that means it cannot in any way cope with oak .
Advice will be really appreciated here as I think I'm in a bit of a fix .