Making more steps on the road to getting organized. Last summer I bought a Drill Doctor to sharpen the dozens and dozens of drills I have. I was in the middle of a couple of projects and didn't have time to sharpen drills so I bought a Milwaukee drill set. Today I finally got started on the drills.
I had well over a hundred random drills laying around. The first job was to get them all in one place.
I mostly used a magnifying glass to inspect the condition of the drills.
Out of curiosity I put some of them under a microscope to see what the edges looked like. This 1/2 drill didn't look bad under the magnifier, but the 'scope revealed bad chipping.
The Drill Doctor leaves a rough surface behind. This is probably OK for a consumer job, but there must be something better that the pros use. I have a friend who is a machinist ans he sharpens his drills by hand on a belt grinder. They look beautiful.
This 1/2 inch drill was so bad I had to run it through 4 times.
Once I got things straightened out I started grindin' drills and filling the indexes. I bought that Milwaukee set in August because I was too busy to sit down and learn how to use the Drill Doctor. It only took a week for the guy working for me to lose most of the drills out of it.