johnnyb
Established Member
Thought I'd just make a post reviewing these famag drills(forstner and Brad point) and also an adjustable countersink.
Firstly the drills seem nicely made they work well in a drill press but honestly they are to fast self feeding in a battery drill. They smash out of the back. The adjustable countersink is very clunky and tends to snag your hand on a battery drill. The cutting angles are not at all subtle tending to scrape and snag although it's very sharp and tumgsten. The best is the sawtooth forstner. This was very free cutting and left a slightly ragged hole in comparison with my old forstners. Unfortuneatly it was drilling slightly bigger than a 3/4 hole. Important for the use I had in mind (round mortices)
Altogether a bit disappointing overall and these were not cheap. The forstners are fine nay good although not perfectly sized. The drills and the countersinks were pretty ill conceived. I'd got a West German black and decker set from the car boot that were better to use for 50p!
The Japanese star m drill and countersink is basically faultless in use and I wish I Brought one instead of these!
Firstly the drills seem nicely made they work well in a drill press but honestly they are to fast self feeding in a battery drill. They smash out of the back. The adjustable countersink is very clunky and tends to snag your hand on a battery drill. The cutting angles are not at all subtle tending to scrape and snag although it's very sharp and tumgsten. The best is the sawtooth forstner. This was very free cutting and left a slightly ragged hole in comparison with my old forstners. Unfortuneatly it was drilling slightly bigger than a 3/4 hole. Important for the use I had in mind (round mortices)
Altogether a bit disappointing overall and these were not cheap. The forstners are fine nay good although not perfectly sized. The drills and the countersinks were pretty ill conceived. I'd got a West German black and decker set from the car boot that were better to use for 50p!
The Japanese star m drill and countersink is basically faultless in use and I wish I Brought one instead of these!
