"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message

As I have a range of these its probably not viable option to you?

I had the same scenario when I bought curtain poles,they had to be
cut and needed the finals rescrewing so...

I got a scarret cutter from my tools that slotted over the near enough
thickness of the pole,inserted a drill bit shorter than the scarret
cutter so that it did not protrude outside the scarret cutters body.
Slipped the scarret cutter over the pole and then carefully started
to drill the hole,the scarret cutter acted as a guide over the pole
to keep the drill from wandering off center.

Excellent! What a cunning plan.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
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TA

Thats the old way I've found a new way now for different thickness poles...

Take a 2x2 piece of square wood about 4" long,mark an X across each end to
give us the center of the wood.
At one end drill out the dowel size using a bench drill to keep it true and
go in about 3".
At the other end drill a 1/16th or 1/8th hole so it comes out of the inner
larger hole on the other side,again using the bench drill for trueness.

Fit piece of wood over dowel then drill the hole at the other side.

A range of sizes can be made using this method.