How to Sharpen Your Drill Bits with a Drill Bit Sharpener

Preventing drill bit breakage doesn’t have to be difficult, and it certainly doesn’t have to cost you any money. You don’t even need to have an expensive drill bit sharpener —you can sharpen your drill bits by hand with a drill bit sharpener! Drill bit sharpeners are also often called drill bits flatteners, which makes sense as this tool can be used to flatten the sides of drill bits as well as to sharpen them when they’re dull or broken. What is the drill bit sharpener? A drill bit sharpener is also called a drill bit shrinker stretcher. This machine is used to sharpen and or enlarge/expand (depending on how it's used) an existing hole in wood, metal or plastic. This tool works much like an electric pencil sharpener except instead of sharpening lead, it sharpens drill bits by evenly grinding away layers. The process begins by inserting either a new pre-made segment into the tool’s throat chute or by manually placing drill bit shavings from another angle grinder into its grind...