They wouldn’t ‘sit higher’ in my guitars because the pinholes have been reamed and tapered to make them fit properly. Pins only ‘sit high’ in Martins because, unlike in the Good Old Days, CFM don’t taper the pin holes, they straight-drill the holes and deliberately make the holes small.

In one of their videos Dave Doll claims it’s done that way ‘in case the holes wear’, but in my opinion (and the opinions of a lot of very Martin-expert luthiers like John Arnold. Bryan Kimsey, et al) it’s BS - they do it that way because it’s a lot quicker (and therefore cheaper!) than taper-reaming the holes and fitting the pins properly. My HD-28V is fifteen years old and has had many, many string changes, and the pins still fit exactly as I fitted them twelve years ago - zero ‘wear’ in the holes.

Here endeth the Gospel according to St. Backwoodsman! :-) :-)