"J T" wrote in message
looped, with the sticky out, works too. Me, I'd probably just hold the
nail with my fingers, and just tap to get it started, not hard enough to
hurt if I missed - I can usually find my fingers when I need 'em.

It could be a really useful tool for people with slightly unsteady hand
motion when swinging the hammer. I taught leathercraft at a local hospital
and experienced quite a few hits on the hand with the hammer when working
with quadriplegics. Fortunately, most of them didn't have sufficient arm
power to build up a really heavy swing of the wooden hammer.