I am making a frame for my son's college diploma out of curupay. I have never used it before, but the color is great with the matting.
I have cut the pieces, and have to route them and glue them together.
I have never trusted just glue for frames and intended on reinforcing the corners with a couple pins. I drilled pilot holes with a drill just under the size of the pin in a piece of scrap; when I hammered the pin it, it split. So that is no good.
I tried some #23 pins from a Grex nailer; but about half shoot out the side.
So my question... are the pins more likely to go or the side if I have the nailer parallel to the grain, or perpendicular; or doesn't it much matter?
This might be my opportunity to learn to use a spline...