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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Very interesting, thanks. I suppose if it is a hard enough wood for the dowel
it would work.

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