Now Beck Fastener has invented something that I would not have thought possible: a wooden nail. You probably couldn’t hit it with a hammer, but it’s part of the LignoLoc system where they fire ...

In 2022, she produced nail extensions with local cypress wood, for which she consulted Toshihiko Kawahara, 63, a Hida-shunkei lacquerware painter, who agreed to collaborate on the project.

"We know steel nails rust over time. But the wooden nail won't suffer from this problem. And in our daily life, you see many hard materials, for example flooring. You can have this hardened wood ...

A few years ago we asked Why in the world would anyone want a wooden nail? It was about the Lignoloc from Beck Fastener. It was a special nail gun that drove compressed beech nails into wood where ...