Tool Review: Porter Cable Profinish 10
A salesman I deal with tried to talk me into one of these and I did not bite. So... he brought one out to the jobsite and left it with me.
The Profinish 10, and I may be off a hair on the name, is what they are calling a Micro Pinner. It shoots tiny, and I do mean tiny glue coated headless pins, up to 1" long. I thought it would be useless. I was wrong.
On small returns, such as base cap, wher the piece will split if you try to pin it, they work every time. My normal method was to cut the return and glue it on, clamp it with a rubber band or two and set it aside while it dried and skip to a new spot. With this micro pinner I can pin the smallest pieces with out splitting, and nail them up immediately. The holes left are smaller than a pin prick, not even visable from 5 feet away, and i think you could paint them and they would not show, they are that small.
The owners added some wainscot in an area that was already drywalled, so I used 3/8 primed poplar and construction adhesive. this is usually a pain, because there is no nailer, and a normal pinner does not really do the job as it blows through. You only need the pins until the glue dries anyway. Two of these micro pins at opposing angles into the drywall did the trick, and nothing showed, no nailholes, just awesome. I used it for small returns on chair rail. I installed prefinished MDF cabinet crown and the holes are so small with no pucker that a finish pencil will easily take care of the holes.
All in all an awesome tool, with many uses that I'm sure I will discover, and I picked one up on the way home. It was priced at $121 dollars at my local yard, and well worth the money.
