I finished my shooting bench Lonny. I didn't like the carriage bolts others were using so I countersunk 2.5" grade 5 bolts and washers into the top of the wood. I then filled in with that wood bondo Minwax calls High Performance Wood Filler. The stuff is like rock once hardened. I really struggled with a stain or paint etc that looked good but plywood simply sucks for that. I went ahead and left it plain sealed with poly. I cannot believe how strong and stable this is. I could jump up and down on it. I worked the pipe threads and managed to get it to where I could it screwed in 8 threads or a little over 2/3 of the one inch threads on the pipe.
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