Well of course, if you’re usng carriage bolts, you can use a rat tail file to
make the holes oval and allow a bit of movement.  If you use countersunk screws,
you will need to be a bit more fiddly with the file, and maybe a gouge to make a
surface countersink oval.  If the countersink is at the bottom of a counterbore,
well, try to avoid that.

And at the end of all that - it’s a bench, and if a split appears, well, it’s a
bench, not a table top, and it’s there to do some work, not to look pristine.


Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman galoot.
coincidentally, looked at my bench top earlier today and thought “this is
looking grubby and dented, maybe I should plane it and make it like Dan’s.
Then reality took hold.






> On 6 Sep 2021, at 16:22, Dan Beck  wrote:
> 
> I see what you’re saying - thanks for the clarification. I followed the
directions provided by Mike Seimsen in his video “Naked Woodworker”. In this
video (released by Lost Art Press) he very clearly instructs screwing the top
planks to the aprons and cross bearers and using carriage bolts to attach the
legs to the aprons.
> 
> I’m hoping that this won’t be an issue. I stored the lumber in my shop for a
couple of weeks before building and tested them with a moisture meter before
attaching them. The levels were in range, so fingers crossed that wood won’t
move much.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
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