I've been thinking about buying one of these but I don't know if they are just a gimmick. Also, if they genuinely work well how good do your bits need to be in the first place to be worth sharpening?

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Up until recently, though, my collection of drill bit sets was so large that I had duplicates and often triplicates of all the bit sizes I commonly used because my older bits were worn out, and in ...