I think suggesting a knife would be just as good for making the pegs is trivialising the wooden building craft. The accuracy needed to make the pegs be able to be fitted but season so that the joint is tight, and then repeatedly do it for hundreds of pegs in a timber frame building is not something that could easily be done with a knife.
However, I live in a C16 barn and the hundreds of pegs in here are consistently 8-faced which I suspect allowed them to be tight when driven in (on the corners) then season more tightly later. But, this is in Oak not Pine; other woods may need different pegs.
Nice tool for building camp furniture and the like though; I'd be interested in a GB if a sensibly priced source was found.
However, I live in a C16 barn and the hundreds of pegs in here are consistently 8-faced which I suspect allowed them to be tight when driven in (on the corners) then season more tightly later. But, this is in Oak not Pine; other woods may need different pegs.
Nice tool for building camp furniture and the like though; I'd be interested in a GB if a sensibly priced source was found.