Antique Samuel Nafew nail puller

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And when I pulled it out, the rust was all gone and replaced with a thin black coating. You can scrub this coating off, and I tried doing that, but got bored. I dried the tool with a rag and rubbed it with motor oil instead.

Here's a video of the nail puller in action. I had an idea of doing an animated GIF that would loop, but I'm too lazy to do that. So here's a short video.




It is a little awkward to use. Lining up the jaws with the nail head is tricky, and if you are off by an eighth of an inch, you wind up pounding the nail in deeper instead of driving the jaws into the wood next to the nail head. But once you have the jaws on the nail, it pulls it out beautifully without damaging it at all.