AAvK wrote:

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I thought and thought and thought about how to join them
to the legs and had decided for double wedged tenons, then
discovered the DF is too chippy and weak as a 1" wide
tenon, so I decided to go with blind M&T sunk into 50%
the thickness of the leg using bench bolts instead.

I like the idea but, would it be worse or merely not as good,
if I went with straight-in hex-head lag bolts instead of the
bench bolts? Does one have a serious advantage over the
other or would it be an equal call? I really want the better
of the two ideas, please. TIA!

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Alex
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http://www.e-sword.net/

Lag bolts will loosen up after a while. A nut, washers and a bolt
would work better. Or you could use barrel nuts and a bolt,
but you have to be able to drill the hole for the bolt and
the one for the screw very accurately.

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/BenchPlan.html

charliel b