Hello all:
just an additional comment on producing wooden pegs by hand and sizing them. We used a flat steel plate which was imbedded flush in a heavy topped saw horse, one that could withstand heavy sledging with a wooden mallet. this steel plate had 2 holes on its surface which were the size usually of 2 types or sizes of pins used in a frame. These holes where made so that they were slightly larger on the bottom side by drilling with a slightly larger drill from the opposite side but not quite through. We then sharpened the upper edge with a round file, and upset the edge upwards with a round punch. All you had to do then was to roughly round the pegs, and tap them down through the hole with a mallet one after the other. This would bring the pins to exactly the right size for the holes predrilled in the wooden frameworks. We would store them in a wooden keg of water to ensure that they would stay plyable and bendable when the time came to use them. The old timers had wrought iron plates that they used for this purpose, and where we got our idea for the plates above.
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