11. You can stop there, and use a nail set to countersink the nail. 12. Countersink the nails and fill the holes with wood filler, sand and finish.13. It won't work; the clapboards are too thin to countersink nails into. 14. A . You could countersink the nails, but they would come back up again. 15. Countersink all nail heads with the nail set and fill the resulting holes with wood putty.16. Use a nail set to countersink the brads, then fill the holes with wood filler. 17. Next, countersink the hole so the screw head will be hidden below the surface of the wood. 18. Countersink a hole in the wood base or buy a base with a countersunk hole already drilled into it.19. They pull up this sliver, drive and countersink the nail, and glue the sliver back in place. 20. You can't countersink the nails but you can drive them flush with the material, he said.
