Wall thicknesses between holes too
thin to measure result with bits
sharpened with the
DrillGadget.....More
Close up examination of this image
shows the unique polished look of a
drill tip sharpened with the DrillGadget.
Easy to replace sharpening strips keeps
the DrillGadget priced right even more
so. Simply slit your own from a sheet of
aluminum oxide or silicon carbide paper
that you can purchase at any hardware
store or home center.
Sharpen not only your
118 degree drill bits, but
your 135 degree split tip
drill bits as well, both up to
1/2 in. diameter. More
135 degree split tip drill bits as well are
just as easy to sharpen with this drill bit
sharpener as 82 degree tips are.  Even
this hard titanium coated split tip drill bit,
with even more complicated geometry is
easy to do. More
For 82 degree and 135 degree carbide drill
tips, It's very easy to double stick consumer
available diamond impregnated honing
media to the DrillGadget to produce
accurate crisp cutting edges More  
The manufacturer's critical drill tip
geometry is preserved with the
DrillGadget. Note the accurate linear
brushing strokes of the gadget creating
a knife edge while elimating the circular
grinding strokes left by a previous
grinding operation...More
Watch some short videos that help
describe the  sharpening drill bits
process this drill bit sharpener as well as
sharpened drill bits in action .....Videos
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The DrillGadget, the easy to use and handy drill bit sharpener,
positions your drill bit perfectly allowing you to dress the cutting
edges at the precise compound angle the manufacturer intended.
Polycarbonate is a high impact resin used for robust
products. Because it is so tough is the reason it costs twice as
much as typical plastics. This robust manual drill bit sharpener
is molded with Polycarbonate.
Aluminum Oxide and Silicon Carbide are established metal
removing abrasives. One sheet you can buy anywhere literally
will last for thousands of dressings.
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Inventor's Story

Several years ago while playing in my workshop with my new drill bit sharpener, a neat grinder that two million others and your's truly each paid $100 or so for, I was very impressed with the
results I got bringing old drill bits back to life. Not a bad gift idea I thought but a little pricey. After an hour or so sharpening drill bits and becoming less excited about my new tool, I put it aside and
retired to my favorite chair. Being the frugal person I am, I sat in thought  why I paid $100 for a tool to put new points on a set of drill bits I could replace for $20. I went to bed telling myself I would
have it for a long time and wouldn't have to buy any more drill bits, unless of course I got too carried away grinding them and they became too short to use.

I wasn't too far into my walk along the canal the next day while thinking about sharpening drill bits and how to simplify the task because I convinced myself that if two million people paid $100 for a
drill bit grinder to make sharpening drill bits easier, a billion people, maybe less I agree, might pay $5 to $10 for a priced right tool that will also make their drill bits as sharp as they ever have to  
be. I didn't know what the concept was, but I knew what a drill tip was all about and decided geometry, and not bells and whistles, was going to be the name of the game.  It was going to have to
preserve the critical geometry of a drill tip, both 118 degree and 135 degree including split tip, be easy to use, small enough to keep with the bits, and manual, not only because a motor wouldn't
fit the budget, but because of the need to always have it available for the worksite as well as in the workshop for home projects. It had to be a useful hand tool, as useful as a chisel or a
screwdriver. And also very important, I wanted an everyday sharpening media, easily renewable, like an existing aluminum oxide or silicon carbide product  from a sanding belt manufacturer.
Diamond impregnated sheets came to mind as well.

It took a half dozen prototypes or so to get where I wanted my drill bit sharpener to be. A handful of quality parts all relating to drill tip geometry, and the realization that strips of everyday
aluminum oxide or silicon carbide sandpaper worked very nicely with bits almost up to carbide is what came to life as a true everyday gadget, something that easily  erases the complicated task of
sharpening drill bits.

The DrillGadget is not a drill bit grinder and isn't intended to be. It's a precision cutting edge and chisel point restorer, and because of that, it is a accurate drill bit sharpener.  It is robust and  
molded from space age resins,  process controlled to provide precision gripping and positioning of a wide range of bit sizes, and several types as well, and allows the user to determine what grit
abrasive should be used when sharpening  drill bits, and honing them as well as how much sharpening is needed.

The complexity of drill tips surprises many people. They are not simple points like a pencil.  Along with the precise geometry, different tip angles are being marketed and as everyone knows, a
huge range of drill tip diameters. Drill bit sharpeners have to be accurate and versatile, and the DrillGadget definitely is. Drill tips are complicated, but sharpening them with a DrillGadget isn't.

Drill bits are made from a wide range of materials. Every day drills are made from tool steels followed by a  range of harder materials, right up to titanium coated and carbide. Drill bit sharpeners
are expected by consumers to handle not only the softer materials, but the harder materials as well. The Drill Gadget, although not a drill bit grinder, holds it's own as a drill bit sharpener.

I didn't intend to come up with another drill bit grinder. Why invent another "better mousetrap"?
I wanted something simple and small that could be used at the spare of the moment. If you don't intend to use it on a drill bit you tried to ram through concrete, you'll find the DrillGadget is
everything I intended. And unless you run over it with a truck, it will last many years and as you already know, your supply of sharpening media will as well.

Take care and work carefully,

Larry Douglas
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Drill Bit Sharpener
US Patent 7,507,149
L. Douglas, LLC
Drill bit sharpeners are about drill tips.
The DrillGadget enables you to accurately put
knife like cutting edges on your drill tips.
Other than price, that's all that counts.
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DrillGadget or two.
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