I have to jump in here again. It seems to me that you are making this question of pinning braces too complicated. All you have to do is copy what has been done over many hundreds of years. Many buildings that I have looked at and examined never had any pegs, and are still standing true and straight, and this after 200 years of high winds, tornados, earthquakes etc. I am not saying that it is never done, but in this area you may only find one building out of 50 that has pinned braces, and it is considered an oddity. Putting oversized braces in just to accomodate pinning in my opinion is overkill, and not necessary, or would have been done by the true and experienced timberframers of days gone by, and that would have come about from improvements over the decades due to failure in the bracing. Pinning the braces will not be sufficient to hold a frame rigid, it will eventually work alittle in the winds which is a normal movement. food for thought
