Fastener, installation tool and related method of use

A fastener installation tool comprising:

• a frame including a frame bottom surface configured to be placed atop and engage a top surface of a second board when a second board side surface of the second board abuts a first board side surface of a first board;
• a guide defining an angled bore, the guide having a first opening into which a fastener is inserted into the angled bore, and a second opening from which a fastener exits the angled bore, the angled bore being non-orthogonal relative to the frame bottom surface:
• an alignment projection extending downwardly from the frame a preselected distance, the alignment projection including an inner engagement surface disposed at a preselected angle relative to an outer engagement surface, the inner and outer engagement surfaces being non-parallel with one another,
• wherein the outer engagement surface is configured to wedge against a first board corner of the first board when the second board side surface of the second board abuts the first board side surface of the first board so as to set a depth relative to the second board side surface of the second board at which the fastener can be advanced, while the frame bottom surface engages the top surface of the second board, the first board corner being of the first board placed in abutment with the second board, wherein the inner engagement surface and outer engagement surface form a wedge terminating at a terminal end,
• wherein the tool is void of any spacers or projections configured to establish a gap between the first board side surface of the first board and the second board side surface of the second board.

A fastener installation tool comprising:

• a frame including a frame bottom surface configured to be placed atop and engage a top surface of a second board when a second board side surface of the second board abuts a first board side surface of a first board;
• a guide defining an angled bore configured to restrain a rotating fastener disposed within the angled bore, the angled bore being non-orthogonal relative to the frame bottom surface;
• a wedge-shaped alignment projection extending downwardly from the frame a preselected distance, the alignment projection including an inner engagement surface oppositely disposed at a preselected angle relative to an outer engagement surface,
• wherein the outer engagement surface is configured to wedge against a first board corner of the first board, above the first board side surface of the first board, while the frame bottom surface engages the top surface of the second board when the second board side surface of the second board abuts the first board side surface of the first board so as to establish a preselected angle between the longitudinal axis of the bore and the second board side surface of the second board at which the fastener is advanced into the second board,
• wherein the preselected distance is less than a depth of a crevice between the first board corner of the first board and a second board corner of the second board, so that the alignment projection is incapable of extending downwardly beside the first board side surface of the first board and the second board side surface of the second board when the frame is atop the second board while the first board side surface of the first board and the second board side surface of the second board are in abutment.