Roger, great concise break down, I have to work on that for speed.
Tim, I am sorry if I offended you in someway, I though my entry was rather neutral in general. My answers are not the end and final result of anything, just the reflection of 35 years of studying, restoring and cutting frames. Considering what I do for a living though, for the duration I have done it, and the amount of failed pegged braces I have seen, my entry was germane, appropriate and true. It was not subjective at all.
I actually though of you last month and some of our conversation we have had around pegs. One of the Amish crews I work with are seeing a number of frames in certain areas of Ohio that use a smaller peg for braces, with keen understanding (circa date after 1830) that peg bracing came about as a facilitation method for raising, nothing more. On rare occasion, we have found barns (one house so far) that used a large metal nail (spike) to serve this purpose. Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin vintage barns thus fare studied and taken down, do not have pegged braces and some are, what appears to be wedges added later.
Regards,
jay
