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When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail principle. Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before.

Good easy read though.

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I'm reading it more as "If the only tool everyone has is hammers, everything will be done with nails"

And screws will be refined to lose those hard-to-hammer threads and that unreliable taper.

Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before

Nope. Never. I take "everything" to be an exaggeration for effect. I've only hammered in peg-like or nail-like objects.

I will totally admit to pliering in a screw, however.

I do, sometimes, to get them started specially into hard wood (not necessarily hardwood), from there a driver will take over.

Drill a pilot hole of the correct size (as wide as the screw shaft without the threads). You will have a much easier time, and you won't split the wood.

https://www.ezwoodshop.com/blog/pilot-hole/perfect-pilot-hol...

Of course, I meant if you don’t have those things at your disposal at a given time.

To start a screw, I've sometimes dug out a divot with the screw or a knife. That way, at least I've removed a little material that might spread apart the grain near the surface.

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