Tool Review: Framing Nailer that’s Light and Compact

As dependable as screws are for decking, about the last tool I’m going to leave in the shop is my framing nailer.

Any deck project without a framing nailer on site is a slow-moving affair. This is even more true with porches, whose framing has a lot of the same elements as straight-up house framing.

When I reach for a framing nailer, I want lean and mean from handle to hitting power. The LPF33PT is a compact bulldog of a framer that works light and fast. It accepts paper-tape-collated nails in the 30- to 33-degree range and, according to Bostitch, is designed for durability. While I did not have the tool long enough to prove that out, Bostitch product managers told me that they exposed this tool to one particularly tough-on-tools contaminant — beach sand — during on-site testing of the tool’s internal air-filter feature.

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