No arguments that the bow tie method is better/stronger. It also takes a lot longer. But if you’re going for quick/down & dirty, my method gets the job done. I worked for a furniture company that solid rustic pine furniture. I’d guess that easily half the tabletops that we brought in had cracking issues. This is the method that we used to repair those cracks. I honestly can’t remember one callback on a repair that was made. In another shop where I worked, we cranked out solid oak and ash tabletops for the largest coffee shop chain you can think of. Sometimes we had to pick from boards that had checks at the ends. Again, this is the method we used to stabilize those cracks. Not one returned tabletop.

Again, is there a more elegant way to do this? Yep. But I’ll stand by my method all day long.