Hi

I had a bin of pins laying around so here are some images of them. Near the center of the first photo is a 5/8" pin from a carrage shed. The others are typical, oak pins.





The short pin is 3" long and was holding a thin-wall type of frame together. Note the crooked point on a pin to the left. I did not have any other severly deformed pins... next time I will keep the bad pins I pull out of a frame just as examples.



Jim

The closer you look the more you see.
"Heavy timber framing is not a lost art" Fred Hodgson, 1909