Hello all -
My daughter and I are making herb strippers. You stick a stem of some herb in the appropriate hole and pull it through and off come the leaves. Yeah, I never heard of one either. Our prototype works well but we are not happy with the raggedness of the holes mostly just for aesthetics. But, also, we wonder about all the open grain within the hole over time.

These are made by gluing up 3 types of 6/4 lumber - Walnut, Red Oak, Poplar and then re-sawing to make 3 thin slabs. We cut these slabs into 4 inch squares and then glue them together with the grain crosswise. Final piece is about 5/16 thick.

New drill bits? Faster drill speed?

looking forward to your advise.

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