Drilling Techniques

If you ever need to drill a technique, this shows you how.

Wood

Many bit types will drill wood successfully. The fastest lowest energy use bits for wood are steep angled twist drills. Standard universal twist drills have poor angles for woodwork, they will cut but make an unnecessarily hard job of it.

Mild Steel Sheet

HSS bits

Aluminium

Aluminium bonds to HSS bits. This problem can be reduced with lubricant.

Titanium coated bits perform much better with aluminium.

Cast Iron

uk.d-i-y thread

Glass

Glass & tile drill