Speed up your next home improvement project with a nail gun. Manually driving nails with a hammer is no big deal—until you start a project that requires hundreds of them. Thankfully, nail guns exist.

Nail guns are powered by electricity, compressed air, or combustible gas and, like many other power tools, they can be dangerous if used improperly. If you’re new to this type of tool, keep reading to ...

A few months ago, I brought my 20-ounce hammer and a traditional nail set tool with me to church. A six-penny finish nail, driven by a carpenter in the late 1800s through a piece of oak trim, had ...