EDITED!... It turns out I may possibly have screwed up and measured wrong, but I prefer to believe that my ruler is off by 1.75". That's my story. But seriously- I did make changes to the Benchcrafted plans, but the ultimate mistake was that I somehow misread that the bottom of the hole was 1.75" above the crisscross mortise, but it turns out the CENTER is 1.75" off. Oops. The recess ends up very close to the crisscross mortise if you drill correctly, so when I drilled it too high, everything looked fine- yup, that's about right... nope, that's not right.
Because my top is 5" thick, I lowered the legs a couple of inches to keep the top at the height I wanted. I thought I had considered everything when making this change. Tonight I drilled the hole for the vise screw. I was so happy it came out perfectly straight, but then I realized there wasn't room for the bushing in back. Easy fix- I will just chop out a little recess and there is still plenty of meat left in the stretcher, but boy did I learn sum'n today. The good news is there is still room for the screw, and now it will sit flush to the stretcher.
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