New 3/16" Pegs Arrived and I couldn't be happier

The New 3/16" Cribbage Pegs Arrived and I couldn't be happier! The colors are a good fit for the boards (black, copper, gold, light and dark silver color) and they fit very nicely. This series is titled "The Six Cardinal Directions" and includes North, South, East, West, Up and Down. Technically up and down aren't cardinal directions, but...I made 6 boards, so I had to make them fit. The substrate for these boards (the board in the middle that the top, sided and bottom is glued to) is made up of solid white oak slats and is hard as nails! I found this out the hard way when I went to drill the peg holder hole. Usually I will drill the hole about half way on the horizontal borer and then finish the rest of the hole with a hand drill. I started to do this - I started the hole on the horizontal borer and then I switched to the hand drill. I started to drill and the hand drill bit seized up because the wood it was drilling into was so DAMN hard. Unfortunately, just because the drill bit suddenly stopped turning, this doesn't mean that the drill will stop along with it. The drill itself kept turning and nearly took my hands off. Ouch! Tapping the hole for the threaded cap was no picnic either! But, in the end, I'm pleased with the way the boards turned out and I think they look especially spiffy with the new metal pegs!