Not bad at all!
A few hints on attaching metal to wood without dinging either:
1. Use the smallest hammer you can find. One of those "jewelers" hammer from Harbor freight with a polyurethane face is good for this.
2. For real brass pins, look for brass escutcheon pins. They are 1/16" rod with a head on one end. trim to length if too long.
3. Make a heading block for the pins by drilling a 1/16" hole in a small block of polished 1/4" thick steel and countersink one side just a bit. The brass pins have a bit of flash under the heads, and the heads are sometimes off-center. Stick one in the hole and use gentle but firm blows to sink the head into the countersink.
4. Countersink the holes in the brass rim to the exact diameter of the headed pin. That will let you get a gap-free fit. Use a hand-powered drill or just twist the countersink by hand, power tools are way too fast to do this well. Subtip 4.: if you use a bigger countersink on the heading block you can make a flat-headed pin that will sit in a correspondingly deep countersink in the brass. Counersink just a little less than the head diameter and file flush for a hidden pin.
Raised brass pin:
Countersunk "hidden" brass and silver pins:
A cluster of raised pins for decorative effect. Ignore the haze around the pins, I had not polished the silver after staining the wood.
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