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• ilove22s Posts: 1,540 Senior Member

  February 2020 #2

  welcome,
  
  for plain jane drill bits ive used the "Drill doctor".  for what it is and does it works.

  The ears never lie.
  
  - Don Burt

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• zorba Posts: 25,288 Senior Member

  February 2020 #3

  That looks FAR better than the dippy thing I had...
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  

  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."

  )O(
  

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• bullsi1911 Posts: 12,437 Senior Member

  February 2020 #4

  Drill Doctor is made by the same people that make the Worksharp

  To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
  -Mikhail Kalashnikov

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• zorba Posts: 25,288 Senior Member

  February 2020 #5

  That says a lot about it, and all of it good! Thanx.
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  

  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."

  )O(
  

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• jaywapti Posts: 5,116 Senior Member

  February 2020 #6

  Old timers like me learned to sharpen drills by hand in hi school shop pretty much limited to 1/4" and up, for most sharpening i use an old General Tools # 825 tool. Of all the angles I prefer the 135 degree split point, been looking for years for a reasonable priced grinder that will do a 135SP. Most of my larger bits, if they just need a touch up I still do them by hand.
  
  JAY
  
  
  

  THE DEFINITION OF GUN CONTROL IS HITTING THE TARGET WITH YOUR FIRST SHOT

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• jaywapti Posts: 5,116 Senior Member

  February 2020 #7

  I must correct part of the above, I just found out that that Drill Doctor # 750X will do 135 split point , its about $125.00
  
  JAY

  THE DEFINITION OF GUN CONTROL IS HITTING THE TARGET WITH YOUR FIRST SHOT

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• zorba Posts: 25,288 Senior Member

  February 2020 #8

  jaywapti said:

  I must correct part of the above, I just found out that that Drill Doctor # 750X will do 135 split point , its about $125.00
  
  JAY

  
  I saw that - and am contemplating whether I should get the 750 or the 350. I have "a few" split point bits, but not many.
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  

  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."

  )O(
  

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• Linefinder Posts: 7,856 Senior Member

  February 2020 #9

  jaywapti said:

  Old timers like me learned to sharpen drills by hand in hi school shop pretty much limited to 1/4" and up, for most sharpening i use an old General Tools # 825 tool. Of all the angles I prefer the 135 degree split point, been looking for years for a reasonable priced grinder that will do a 135SP. Most of my larger bits, if they just need a touch up I still do them by hand.
  
  JAY
  
  
  

  This. I touch up drill bits a lot and I use a $100 vertical belt sander, which has a whole lot more uses than a dedicated bit sharpener. The learning curve isn't that bad. After you do it wrong a half dozen times you pretty well figure out how to do it right. And like jay said....sharpening sub-1/4" aint worth the effort.
  
  Mike

  "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
  N454casull
  

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• Accipiter Posts: 898 Senior Member

  February 2020 #10

  I use cbn wheels on my slow speed grinder.

  Apparently free thought is punished, and conformity is required, while peckerless cowards run the show.
  
  ECHO...ECHO....echo...
  
  Ah......One savors the hypocrisy!
  
  Karma.........It’s a bitch.

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• ilove22s Posts: 1,540 Senior Member

  February 2020 #11

  jaywapti said:

  I must correct part of the above, I just found out that that Drill Doctor # 750X will do 135 split point , its about $125.00
  
  JAY

  
  i forgot which one we got.
  
  but it will do the carbide and the drills with 2 different angles and the plain bits.
  
  we got ours years 10+ ? years ago.  im sure there are new versions out there but so far, its  worked for 90% of the bits we have in our house.  After we got it for xmas and after it warmed up, over a month or so, we gathered up all fo the loose and bit sets we had and sharped them all.  
  
  I remember when i was younger, i got a drill bit set from my dad.  It was his way of telling me to ruin my own.
  
  as far as hand sharpening on a bench grinder.  I did try that with some of my dad bits too.  but it takes time, many many many attempts and constancy.  My machine shop instructor in HS could cut a thread cutting tool by eye on a grinding wheel and it was from 1/4 inch stock. He asked for my square stock to use as a "demo" for all.   I used that tool for the rest of my class. 

  The ears never lie.
  
  - Don Burt

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