Amateur carpenters often find it difficult to bore a clean hole through a piece of soft wood without splintering the edges. This is overcome by drilling the wood until the point of the drill just emerges on the other side. Reverse the wood and complete the hole from the other face. Then no splintering will result.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 6
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