Steel nails
Keeps things in place fairly permanently.
28gp
26gp
2gp
+2gp
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Price history
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Volume · units traded
- 30D low
- 26
- 30D high
- 28
- Volatility
- 7.4%
Flip calculator
Includes the 2% Grand Exchange tax
+2gp
+2 per item · +7.69% ROI
- Capital required
- 26 gp
- Gross revenue
- 28 gp
- GE tax (2%, 0/item)
- − 0 gp
- Break-even sell
- 26 gp
Item data
- High alchemy
- 1 gp96.4% below market
- Low alchemy
- 1 gp
- Shop value
- 3 gp
- Weight
- 0 kg
- Skill / type
- Smithing
- Requires
- Smithing 34
- Stack / note
- Stackable · not noteable
- Released
- Sep 23, 2001
About Steel nails
Steel nails are a free-to-play item in Old School RuneScape.
"Keeps things in place fairly permanently"
Over the last 30 days they traded between 27 and 30 gp on the Grand Exchange, averaging 29 gp. About 1,974,144 units changed hands per day. The price is down 3.3% across that window. The Grand Exchange buy limit is 13,000 every 4 hours.
Casting High Level Alchemy returns 1 gp, which is 96.6% below the 30-day average price, so alching a bought one loses money.
How to get Steel nails
18 monsters drop Steel nails, most commonly Rubble (In Aid of the Myreque) (Always), Young impling (1/10) and Young impling jar (1/10). Only Construction supplies sells them. Them can be made from Steel bar.
Dropped by
| Monster | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Rubble (In Aid of the Myreque) | Always | 3 |
| Young impling | 1/10 | 5 |
| Young impling jar | 1/10 | 5 |
| Large salvage | 200/2,218 | 1–5 |
| Barracuda salvage | 2,500/28,401 | 1–5 |
| Giant skeleton (Tarn's Lair) | 5/128 | 12 |
| Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) | 5/128 | 12 |
| Skeleton (mage) | 5/128 | 12 |
| Zombie (Tarn's Lair) | 5/128 | 1 |
| Fishy salvage | 10/467 | 1–5 |
| Ogre Coffin | 2/100 | 1–11 |
| Reward pool | 1/80 | 300–500 |
| Accumulator max cape | 5/2,000 | 1 |
| Ava's accumulator | 5/2,000 | 1 |
| Ranging cape | 5/2,000 | 1 |
| Medium port reward bag | Unknown | 29 |
| Small port reward bag | Unknown | 22 |
| Tiny port reward bag | Unknown | 20–30 |
Sold in shops
| Shop | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|
| Construction supplies | 3 gp | 1000 |
Recipes
Where this item appears in crafting and processing.
Made from
- 1× Steel bar makes 15
Used to make
- 1× Beer barrel (flatpack) from 3× Plank, 3× Steel nails
- 1× Bookcase (flatpack) from 4× Plank, 4× Steel nails
- 1× Cider barrel (flatpack) from 3× Plank, 8× Cider, 3× Steel nails
- 1× Crude chair (flatpack) from 2× Plank, 2× Steel nails
- 1× Green d'hide shield from 2× Green dragon leather, 1× Maple shield, 15× Steel nails
- 1× Kitchen table (flatpack) from 3× Plank, 3× Steel nails
- 1× Rocking chair (flatpack) from 3× Plank, 3× Steel nails
- 1× Shaving stand (flatpack) from 1× Plank, 1× Steel nails, 1× Molten glass
- 1× Shoe box (flatpack) from 2× Plank, 2× Steel nails
- 6× Steel brutal from 6× Flighted ogre arrow, 6× Steel nails
Steel nails appears in 14 recipes in total.
Steel nails price history
Daily averages rolled up per month, newest first.
| Month | Average | Low | High | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 202612d | 28 | 27 | 29 | 27,553,929 |
| September 2026 | 32 | 27 | 39 | 53,904,715 |
| August 2026 | 32 | 28 | 37 | 78,187,114 |
| July 2026 | 27 | 20 | 34 | 74,417,365 |
| June 202621d | 23 | 22 | 28 | 34,226,790 |
| May 20262d | 29 | 28 | 29 | 2,750,489 |
| April 20261d | 28 | 28 | 28 | 1,050,800 |
| March 2026 | 25 | 23 | 28 | 18,206,351 |
| February 2026 | 21 | 17 | 24 | 1,727,631 |
| January 2026 | 19 | 15 | 23 | 17,766 |
Across 10 months of recorded prices Steel nails ranged from 15 gp in January 2026 to 39 gp in September 2026, measured over 218 trading days.
The 30-day average of 29 gp sits around the middle of that range.
All prices in gp. Volume counts units traded across both sides of the Grand Exchange.
