Stevo's Playhouse

Cheers. I ended up using the standard nuts after all and not the long connecting nuts because either the bolts or the long nuts are not perfectly straight, or the threads on either are not uniform, so they bind up something shocking. Such variation is not noticeable with the regular nuts.

The jaws of the vice go out of parallel easily, even given the depth of wood the bolts are going through and the tight clearance of the holes. I may epoxy the bolts into the fixed jaw or think of some other guide mechanism. But as it is, I was able to lift the table with that 2x3 clamped and not having to really crank down on the hand wheels. So it's enough for sawing, which is what I made it for.