"George" wrote in message

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.



http://www.20xx20.myby.co.uk/dowljig.jpg

Here's the jig for getting a perfect drilled centerd hole in a curtain pole
or any other wooden pole.
various sizes can be made providing you have the(auger) drillbits.

The large black rectangles represent the auger bit sized drilled out of the
2x2 wood and the smaller rectangles represents a 1/16th or 1/8th drilled
hole.

To do this you need a bench drill for a perfectly aligned drilled holes.