/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Personally, its better to have a few good tools, than lots of cheap shit.

I share a studio workshop, and have seen one of the other guys buy cheap Chinese bits and complain that he couldn't drill holes in 80crV2 steel as it had "work-hardened".

picked up my pack of Dormer drill bits - not great, not top of the line, but good stuff - went through swapped the no-name black iron bit he was trying with. same drill, same speed, same clamping. Drilled the hole in 10 seconds.

That guy no longer buys no-name drill bits.