Massachusetts, USA-based supplier of tacks and nails
products come in distinctive brown cardboard boxes with stylized black wings
Products
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The ounce is a form of measurement that refers to the thickness of the leather the tack is used to clinch. Please do not confuse the size of the tack with the weight of the box. Please check the description for the length in fractions. — FAQ
The size of the head would determine if it is included in the measurement. If the tack or nail has a small head the measurement would be overall, head included. If it has a large head the measurement would begin under the head. — FAQ
Shoe Tacks
often used as production lasting tacks, especially for heavier weight leather uppers
- Hand Shoe Tacks up to 12 oz
- Brass Hand Shoe Tacks up to 6 oz
Clinching Nails
designed to pierce through layers, strike a metal plate, and peen over, clinching in place
- Extra Iron Clinching Nails: 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8
- Brass Clinching Nails: 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 3½
- Wire Clinching Nails
- 14 gauge: 10/8, 11/8, 12/8, 14/8, 16/8
- 16 gauge: 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, “5½”
Used to fasten uppers to insoles over lasts with heel or full bottom plates. Can also be drive into the bottoms of wooden or plastic lasts and peened over with a drift or other tool through the throat, as a finishing step.
Shoes using clinch nails through insoles nearly always include sock liners or lay-in footbeds.
Soling Nails
- Iron Soling Nails
- Brass Soling Nails
- Wire Fiber Soling Nails
Iron Shoe Nails
Used for nailing on heel bases.
Heel Nails
- Hand Rubber Heel Nails
- Wire Rubber Heel Nails
- Wire Wood Heel Nails
Other
- Hungarian Hob Nails
- Brass Lace Tacks