Quote Originally Posted by BKratchmer View Post
Wood is, by nature of being a natural product, possessing of grain which will make it very prone to splitting, no matter how dense. I would use washers... particularly if you are not very experienced with pinning, as holli4pirating noted.
I agree with the run-on-ish sentence above. When I said "if the material is strong enough" I pretty much excluded all woods. I don't think wood is a great scale material by nature, but many here would disagree.