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Need help identifying the weird grind on this drill bit
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10-21-2016, 04:11 PM
I bought several surplus industrial tools. In the lot was an oddly ground drill bit. Seems this is deliberate but I can find no reference anywhere to this kind of grind. Does anybody recognize it? It sort of like a Forstner bit for metal.  It is a 1/4" drill bit so it was hard to get a good picture. Any ideas?

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10-21-2016, 07:33 PM
I am guessing a brad point style of dolling bit. I have some from Vermont Tooling that have a Brad point and a spur on 2 sides.
Cant find them but this is close.
https://www.amazon.com/Vermont-American-...drill+bits
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10-21-2016, 08:00 PM
It appears it may just be a step point done by someone who needed to have one and did not want to buy one 

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the one thing it is not is a brad point drill
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10-21-2016, 08:14 PM
I've used it once to go through some 14 ga sheet metal and it went through it fast,
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10-21-2016, 09:42 PM
that tends to strengthen my conclusion that it is a custom ground step drill
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