When I drill holes in yellow pine, the other side splinters. How can I avoid this?
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Based on this brief description I would suggest you clamp a piece of scrap wood to the back of the pine. This will give the drill something additional to cut and prevent splintering.
Drill through with a small bit.
Then open the hole at each end
with the bit your choice.
Then dril the hole.
Use a smaller drill bit first then go with the size you need.
Drill a pilot hole with a smaller hole first. Then drill half way through with the size bit you need, and then flip the board over and drill the other side.
either clamp or hold a piece of scrap wood to the opposite side
It sounds like you are using a spade bit. Use a hole cutter instead. These are round, and have a lot of little teeth for finish work.
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Most good hardware stores have them.
You will need to have some finish sandpaper handy to clean up the edges with any drill. First try them out on something that is scrap to get used to how they work. The final cut should be from the back to keep the edges as clean as opssible
use a piece of scrap wood and put it behind the wood ur drilling
drill halfway through on one side...then flip the wood and drill halfway through the other side
Put a scrap piece under where the hole will go through. You can drill through the good one and start into the scrap piece and not tear up the good one
You can run masking tape around the piece of wood. This helps to reduce splintering.
Drill a hole until it barely comes out the other side then go to the other side find the hole and drill in from there. Guaranteed!
listen to the answers that suggest scrap wood. it works a lot better than the masking tape, and simpler than drilling a pilot hole then changing the bit and drilling the hole again with the correct size drill bit. good luck.
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