Given a hyperbolic 3-manifold M containing an embedded closed geodesic, we estimate the volume of a complete hyperbolic metric on the complement of the geodesic in terms of the geometry of M . As a corollary, we show that the smallest volume orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold has volume > .32.
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