CAMO® Hand Drive Edge Fastening System

CAMO Product Manager, Greg Groenhout, walks through our complete hand drive Edge Fastening system that helps everyone achieve a fastener-free surface on their deck. He explains the benefits of our Edge Deck Screws and driver bits and shows you the MARKSMAN Pro Guides in action.

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[jimi]

Why did Camo discontinue the Marksman X2 with 1/8" spacing ? Most KDAT pressure treated manufacturers such as Yellowwood and Cullpepper, specify 1/8" spacing as do some synthetics.

[lanceleavitt]

Excellent summary of the tools offered. --- Thanks for the helpful upload. ---

[philmclaren]

I built a deck about a year ago using this system with vitex which is a hard wood. I wouldn't recommend using it with a hardwood personally and am about to build a deck out the front of my house and will probably go back to screws unless I choose a different wood and/or different fastening system. The reasons are that hardwood seems to be to strong for these heads and when some of the boards crown, which they will try to do eventually given temperature and rain fluctuations, the heads have just pulled through and caused massive splintered areas. These are on the side so not a splinter hazard but the screw is no longer fastening the board in place.
They might work fine in softwood such as pine etc but I just wouldn't recommend for hardwood.
Also another problem I found was sometimes (maybe every 10-15 screws) the screw wouldn't drive all the way in but to top it off it wouldn't screw out either so I had to wrestle the hand held piece quite violently side to side and up and down to rip it off the screw head. Then I could drive the screw all the way in so it definitely was not hitting an embedded nail etc. I could never work out why it randomly did this but it was a pretty annoying at the time. It shouldn't have been the screw head catching the insides of the guide as it sets it up for the correct angle etc.
I actually did like the system to be honest but never again with hardwood.

[jaxwylde]

Which Camo should be used with Cedar 5/4 x 6 decking boards? You mentioned composite (use the Pro), PT wood (use the x1), but said nothing about cedar boards. I'm assuming that since cedar doesn't shrink as much as PT wood, using the Pro (i.e. 3/16 gap) unit is recommended or should I use the 1/16 gap, or is it simply a matter of preference? Thanks.

[danp]

You mentioned 3/16th gap for synthetic, and 1/16th gap for treated lumber, what lumber or condition would you leave no gap with the edge? Thanks

[ExcessInModeration]

For the no gap, does the wood have to be completely dry?

[multiguitarplayer]

I guess this could be used for fence building as well.

[macmckeirnan]

How do you do the starter board, that back screw up against the structure is going to be a bitch.🤣