Drill bits! Don't feel bad about being unable to sharpen them correctly (yet). The shop I work in is filled with mechanics under 30 who seem to only have the ability to create arrow heads with drill bits, or worse. Yes, at Tech School they are all instructed in this arcane art and are passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Strangely, after my days off, my first task in the shop is not to sharpen drill bits, but to make them so they will actually drill a hole. I don't use a gauge or drill doctor or assistant, just a decent, trued grinding stone and a piece of graph paper. The real secret to sharpening drill bits correctly (or anything else worth doing) is to pay attention to what you are doing and to what the result is.
BTW, poor drill bits are a real pet peeve of mine.
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How did I get this old?
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