Here’s a simple method for drilling accurately through irregular workpieces, or for drilling tricky compound angles and having the hole exit where you want it. First clamp a board to the drill-press table and drill the board to match a dowel on hand. Point a short length of dowel and insert it in the hole. Now mark the workpiece for the entry and exit holes, and center-punch the marks. Make the exit punch fairly deep. Place the workpiece’s exit punch on the dowel point and drill on the opposite punch mark.

George Kasdorf, Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Fine Woodworking Magazine, August 1983 No. 41

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