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Handwork in Wood

CHAPTER IV
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132, work on the same principle as auger-bits, except that the spurs have no screw, and hence have to be pushed forcibly into the wood.

Sizes are given in 16ths of an inch.

They are useful for soft wood, and in boring large holes in thin material which is likely to split.

They are sharpened in the same way as auger-bits.
_Foerstner bits_, Fig.

133, are peculiar in having no spur, but are centered by a sharp edge around the circumference.


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