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On to nailing - I'm using a stock of nails I got second hand some years ago. As is always the problem, they are not really reconstructions, but their shape (see pics below) are acceptable IMO as roman nails after a number of miles, with the tips ground away. Most important, the shafts of the nails have to be long enough to reach through all 3 layers and still bend over on the anvil to clench it all fast.
Here are the tools I used: awl to punch small holes to assist setting the nails, pliers to save my fingertips, light hammer for setting the nail, heavy hammer for hammering home the nail so that it clenches fast all 3 layers and finally a shoemaker's anvil (Roman ones didn't look too different as you probably know)
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