General Discussion & Chat: Looking for Espalier Nails or Anchoring Devices, 1 by baagrant

baagrant wrote:
Your ideas sound like any of them would be workable. However, the originals were just so elegant. They could be bent back and more branches added. They didn't restrict growth at all. They were just so ideal, suited for their purpose. The weather was better today, so I went out and took a picture. This is looking at the top of the square nail with the "ribbon" of lead. I could probably even manufacture them like lead sinkers if I actually wanted to go to so much trouble and knew how to make a mold for molten lead. It would be so much easier to just buy some from somewhere.

Thanks for the ideas, if I don't uncover a source, I may have to resort to making do with something else.