How to Sharpen a Drill Bit Quickly and Easily

The method I use to sharpen twist drill bits every day in the workshop. Once you do this once it is very easy and quick to touch up the facets to resharpen the bit. No fancy twists of the wrist necessary like you would with a traditional grind. Save cash by not buying fancy machines!

[davep.]

Straight to the point. No rambling on and on, no background music blasting. Very helpful video...well done!

[DyslexicLunatic]

Finally, a video straight to the point. No nonsense music, nor verbose rhetoric. No children. No dogs. No advertising. Thank you.

[PR-gdtk]

Thank you for NOT spending 10 minutes talking about drill bits. It is nice to see a video that just shows you 'how to' instead of spending too much time rambling on and on.

[peeteebee]

Perfect!
I found this after failing to sharpen my drills and immediately had success by following your method.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[cjoldham]

This is impressive. I've spent many years grinding twist drills like this. I watched a Youtube film about doing this drill grinding and it lasted 12 minutes and was TOTALLY boring. My comment was that if my lesson on teaching apprentices this skill took so long, they would have been nodding off. This is NOT boring, it's quick and to the point. Cheers.

[samhockkang]

Easiest and best method, without wasting even a single word explaining. This is what everybody wants ! Thumbs up !

[raulmaniccia]

YOU ROCK MAN! QUICKLY AND SIMPLE NO JIGS NO BACKGROUND MUSIC NO BULLSHIT THANKS A LOT VERY USEFUL

[terrybatterton]

Absolutely amazing, best drill sharpening tutorial I’ve seen by far

[barispeace]

I have to thank to owner of this video. I have sharpening experience on knives but not on drilling bits. After i watched this video and sharped one of my old bits, and voila it drills perfectly.

[jubbaronny]

My first week at the toolmakers where I served my time, I’m now 54 and still turning, were spent grinding a box of 200 drills. When at last I finished them all, someone put a big flat on the front and told me to do them again! I have been the ‘go to’ man to grind up hss and carbide drills at 3 of the 8 companies I’ve worked for. Good video by the way. If it cuts good size with a decent finish then the job’s a gud’n.

[fredramos]

Good technique, free hand on a bench grinder works for me. Been dressing drills like in your video for 25+ yrs. Dressing the stone often for best results. Good job!

[craigbourne]

Best and quickest video i ve seen, no daft music or showing the same thing over and over again, brill :)

[sayshuh]

Thanks for the video. I'm retired but I was the go to person at the mill that I worked for in the machine shop when the 15"×20"×20" crate became full of dull, broken bits. I continued using the old method of sharpening that my Machine Tool Technology instructor taught in the mid seventies. We made a jig to help with the angle 《°30》, but it was a way that I've never seen anyone else use and it worked quite well. Basically, everything was done by eye and experience and it is a technique where the drill bit is rolled down as it is being ground. I'm impressed with the way you did the work in your very informative, well explained video .Thanks again and please continue to post more videos .

[frro]

Thank you Thomas Fox for this video about drill bit sharpening. It is by far the best on You Tube, and believe me, I have watched many other video's on the subject and every time I came away more confused than before.

[kwkstar]

This is one of the best video instructions of drill sharpening I have ever seen. I have been a machinist/toolmaker for 40 years. Yes I am sharing this.

[markhelyar]

This is the 3rd maybe?, like I have ever given on YouTube, and I logged in to do it. Literally perfect video.

[georgeghaly]

At last someone has shared a really nice video about sharpening drill bits. Thank you.

[junnelcaballero]

the most appropriate video so far that i had check on how to sharpen drill bits. thank you sir.

[zafaradeel]

You are my hero.you teach me simple effective and durable way of drill bit sharpening.

[coropinion]

Fast, simple and to the point. All how to videos should be just like this!