Was I Wrong about the Drill Doctor?

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I hate drilling with a passion, yet here I am, watching a (second) video of sharpening drill bits.

I can literally see your wife walk in to check up on you since it's past midnight, you've got reading glasses on and she takes one look at the 'No Drill Doctor' chalkboard map and shakes her head. Bravo Wes

The drill doctor only works on a flat Earth.

I love it, you say no one watched a video on sharpening drills, so you double-down and make a second one!! I wonder how drill DR worked on your 3d printed drills?

The intro 😂

An 8" bench grinder is the same price (or even less) and is overall WAY more useful. Glad I was taught properly by my elders and never wasted any money on a Dr Drill Wrecker

"It's not good but for a lot of people it's probably good enough" -very true for the majority of these sorts of products.

Drill Doctor PR team currently trying to find Illinois on a map to 'send the boys around'.

Wife asked what i was watching. She convinced I've lost my mind.

At least you are using Hagoromo chalk, the mark of a true professional! I personally love watching your videos and I appreciate your wife’s support as well in the whole endeavor.

I was fortunate enough to have a very experienced machinist show me how to properly sharpen bits by hand using a bench grinder.

I am a machinist and have used a drill doctor at a past manufacturing shop. It was kept in a box in the tool crib and only came out when a very small drill such as the smallest number drills needed a touchup. Otherwise everything was sharpened on bench grinders.

I never watched the first video, I think it was 1977 I was taught how to sharpen drill bits, the old boy I was working under got sick of me asking him to sharpen a bit so he showed me how. Truly a great skill to have. Fast forward a whole bunch of years to about 2002. I was field service and we had a bunch of machines that were having breaking bolts for the swing bearing and track rollers. Lots of drilling involved. I got sick of crawling out from under an excavator and sharpening bits, so I bought a drill doctor and would have it under the machine with me, once the drill quit drilling easy I would just do a quick touch up. It worked really good. I wore that one out, it was one of the older ones that could do twist drills, left hand drills and masonry drills. I tried to buy the parts to repair but Drill Doctor no longer made that style but they gave me a deal on a brand new one. It is no where as good as the old one was, in fact I don't even use it anymore, well I am retired, but before I retired I hardly used it. And I did work in a machine shop at one time. They had this big fancy bit sharpener, I forget what make. It was pretty much useless for anything under 1" but big bits, oh yes. And yes all the machinist were perfectly capable of sharpening a bit but this thing sped things up and with a perfect every time, they used it quite a bit

I bought my drill doktor about 15 years ago after grinding my own bits for at least 30 years prior. I thought I needed a more consistent grind. After reading the instructions and trying to put them into practice for a good couple of hours, I put the drill doktor back in the box and back on the shelf for a coupla more years to gather dust. It really ate at me that I couldn't figure it out so one afternoon I dragged it back out and set it up and tried again after thoroughly reading the instructions. It is back on the shelf, and anyone is welcome to it for free. And thank you Francis (mechanic I worked with when I was 20) who tawt me how to grind bits...and a million other things. My bits look just like your middle bit. Just remember kids, that the more times you have to regrind a drill bit, the better you get at it. Thank you again Wes!

Awesome follow up video. I had a drill doctor. It rotted in the corner because I hated the results but didn’t want to throw away money I had already thrown away. Sold it for 10 bucks at my wife’s garage sale just to unload it. The guy that bought it thought he had just hit the jackpot. Good luck bro.

From one of the few ;) who watched the other video. Thank you again! Just ordered the Vevor so that I can cheat on bit sharpening when I need to.

I agree with your assertion that all machinists sharpen by hand. In my shop it was sacrilege to use a mechanical device.

watched both videos, great content as usual. That intro was fantastic, great work!

I've got an older Drill Doctor that I inherited when a former employer eliminated their little machine shop. I think "Good Enough" is the best way to describe it. It's worth more than I paid for it (nothing) and it keeps my drills usable.