Thanks everyone for the suggestions. In the end, I talked it over with a couple of local guys who have some experience with timber framing, and we decided that the gap was not big enough to warrant re-boring it. In the end we simply wedged and shimmed the gap, and it seems as strong as it needs to be, probably more.
We had a great day for the raising Saturday, and managed to get the whole frame up (minus a couple of dovetailed purlins that I wanted to fit in place) in about 4 1/2 hours, including a lunch break. For a picture of the (almost) completed frame go to:
http://www.romanroxe.com/barn/barnframe2.jpg Also, there are some more shots at:
http://www.searson.com/2002/07/barn I'm gonna have more photos up on the web soon. If anyone's interested, I'll post the URL here.
Thanks again,
Dave in Padanaram
