Board layout discussion

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Here's the smaller of the two boards you liked.  The knot at right dictates the layout. I don't drill peg holes in knots.  Such holes NEVER turn out correctly and they look bad.  This board has a very appealing grain.

Due to the knot, the only practical place to put the beginning peg holes is looking up the best part of the grain.

This is looking "downboard" back toward the point of beginning. I like to use the 2-2-2 layout but, in this case, the margins are too wide.

By moving the centerline 1/8th inch left and widening out the center spacing, I was able to get to good peg line sets and proportional margins.

The top view.

Top view without my 2 inch gage.

This is as close as I dare get to the knot.  The tip of the poster board would be a peg hole.

The leftover space is large enough to place the crib card.

The peg lines on this layout are 18 inches total.  Each peg hole is spaced one half inch and the "peg decks" of five holes are one inch from one another.  This particular layout works with 8AWG copper using 9/64th holes one half inch deep.  The pegs can be kept bare or capped as shown below.  The two larger diameter pegs I use are 4 AWG copper and 3/16th inch brass rod stock.  Use of either one requires a longer length peg line so that the distance between peg holes does not appear cramped.