Everyone,

I pinned together a razor last night and left a little bit more of the pin hanging out each side of the scale than I normally do. I managed to get a nice mushroom head on the pins and got them snugged down. But when I look at it under 10x magnification (jewellers loupe) I see that the very edges of the mushroom head have split. I haven't noticed this before on the other razors I have pinned.

Could this be from having too much pin material sticking out of the scales before I begin pinning? I'm using stainless steel rod.