Quote Originally Posted by Estellios View Post
If you have your chat log set to show your attack damage, it will tell you what side of the nail you are hitting when you use a WS (might also tell you on regular hits... not sure). If it doesn't work on regular hits use a quick-cooldown WS to test what side you are on (Fists of Wind helps out even more in this regard), it should only take 2 WS's to figure out its orientation.

It may feel like you wont have enough time if you do this but once you can combo it you can murder a nail really quickly all by yourself.
Darn...I was hoping there would be some visual indicator on the nail that would mean the front/back, but I guess it's random?