Give that man a silver dollar. I was installing that big honker LV
10-1/2" steel bench vise on my new bench with hard maple blocks to
offset the vise from the bottom of the bench. I used 3/8" lag screws,
and followed the advice in one of those tables drilled 9/32" pilot
holes. the first screw sheared off when it was 1/2 way in.


In article , Stephen M
wrote:


IME, the harder the wood, and the larger the screw, the more particular you
should be about pilot hole size.

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