"AAvK" wrote:


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!

Screws (lag bolts) into end grain tend not to be as strong. If you use
them, I'd suggest a hybrid: drill a 3/4" hole through your stretcher
in the path of the lag bolt and fill it with a 3/4" dowel, so that the
lag bolt goes through the dowel, and the dowel acts like the captured
nut of a bench bolt. I'd go with the bench bolts if I wanted to
disassemble more often than every 20 years; otherwise, I'd go with the
lag bolt and dowel. But that is intuition based on limited experience
(my SYP bench base is still very tight 10 years after assembling with
this method).
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