Just to add something, you can buy a brad push for some of those little brads, makes them a lot easier to drive. This is a knob like handle on the end of a thin tube with a piston in the middle of it. You insert a brad into the tube and literally insert it into the wood. in your situation you should be able to insert an inch and a quarter brad under the surface by hand though you can tap them in with a hammer if you need to.
If you have a nailer of course air or battery this makes countersinking small nails easy. Quarter round is a bit big and you will want to reinforce the corners for a really nice job and that can be a little difficult. You can buy all sorts of edging though, bullnose, many other sorts of very decorative and increasingly expensive stuff. some is formed of some sort of extruded particle board and even plastic foam. There is plastic stuff with a sort of spline you can insert into a groove cut down the center of the edge and glue and staple from the bottom. Depending on the use, you can buy metal edging which overlaps the top edge by maybe three sixteenths and screws through the face, usually a little nicer if the corners are rounded a little. This and the plastic spline type is good where there is likely to be a bit of rough use. The screen door moulding is quite versatile with a touch of glue and small brads, the really small ones once a little below the surface often don't really need hiding for many applications, you may wish to for fine furniture but they are so small as to be nearly invisible and once the glue sets up no longer serve much purpose. A brad near each end and then at about 8 inch intervals or even a little more just to keep the edge secure until the glue sets up. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mickey Fixsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Trim > Bill, > > You can use quarter round, if you want, but you might want to consider > screen mold instead. It comes in a 3/4 inch width to match your top > thickness and is about 1/4" thick with rounded edges. It works very > nicely to finish off plywood edges. > > To answer your question, wire brads are simply very small finish nails. > They come in various sizes, but are much smaller than "finish nails". You > do use a nail set to just put their head below the surface, so that you > can install putty to fill the holes. There are nail sets with many > different size ends to use according to the nails being set. > > Good Luck. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Stephan > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:29 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Trim > > > Folks: > > I have a table top made out of a piece of 3/4 plywood that I want to put > some trim around for aesthetic reasons only. I plan on using quarter round > for this, but I have no clue what I'm doing since I've never tried this > before. > > I understand I can use either brads or finishing nails for this. What > exactly is a brad, and how does it differ from a finishing nail. > If I use finishing nails, I know I have to use a nail set to seat them > below the surface of the wood. Are there different sizes of nail sets > available, and how are the sizes expressed. I have a couple nail sets, but > they look too big for finishing nails, to me at least. > > If I use brads, what kind of tool do I need to seat them, and are there > different sizes of that tool and how would those sizes be expressed? > > Bill Stephan > Kansas City, MO > (816)803-2469 > William Stephan > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Release Date: > 10/23/2006 > > ---------- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Release Date: > 10/23/2006 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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