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Sharpening drill bits

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Jonny:
One thing i'll admit to not being that good at, often looked at various machines of that ilk the last 20 odd years, bought a few thrown them away.
Bottom line whichever one you use every single drill has to be specifically setup or waste loads, even drills of same size making them laborious to use. By the time setup each drill could have ground up 5 or more by hand, I tend to buy quality sub 3/16" rather than regrind by hand.
Other downsides they only handle from and to certain size and wont do morse taper.

Now if there was a fool proof, easy, quick to use method with decent stones I would make room for one.

mexican jon:
I have a Quorn which I have a drill point sharpening jig for but it is to time consuming to use  :( What i also have is a Tormek with the DBS-22 drill sharpening attachment  :thumbup: It is really easy to use and doesn't take long to set up  :clap: it does all types of drills up to approx. 22mm  :drool: It also means that I have a very good sharpening station for everything else like knifes, scissors, chisels etc.

Arbalist:
 I bought a box of 150 assorted drill bits from 1 - 6mm for £19.99. That's 13p a drill bit so not worth sharpening in my opinion. If someone brought out a decent machine to sharpen bits from say 5mm up to 19mm for a good price I'd get one PDQ.

lordedmond:
I have the vertex one it also does a good job easy to set up once you know how


Arbalist whilst I agree with you as to the pric of you drill purchase making it expensive to sharpen them it is , but unless you have mor than one of each size then you are snookered if it's blunt/broken in the middle of a job , job stops until you get a new one , drilling a work hardening material you need to touch up the bit to maintain its cutting action

Just my take on it FWIW

Stuart

krv3000:
 keep us informed as haw its preforming looks good

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