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Re:The Ancient Japanese Technique That Produces Lumber Witho... by lostlogin on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:26AM (#33716541)
I thought ‘dead as a door nail’ was a reference to dead nailing. Dead nailing being the bending over of the nail to lock it in place. Is this practice somehow related to poor quality nails?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_as_a_doornail

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Re:The Ancient Japanese Technique That Produces Lumber Witho... by pineaux on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:27AM (#33718318)
For an excellent video about the use, history and ethymology of a dead door nails:

https://youtu.be/1JOwfKLdRt8

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